Never Let Me Go 3

"Funny thing is, this walk with her, it did help. Helped a lot.When you were saying earlier on, about how things seemed better for me now.Well it's because of that."
- Never Let Me Go pg 28

Tommy, the speaker in this situation is explaining his controversial conversation with Miss Lucy to Kathy H.. Tommy, unlike every other "student" at Hailsham was not gifted with creativity, so in the children's eyes he had some sort of educational leprosy and was avoided and teased regularly. This all started Tommy's outrageous temper tantrums. Upon seeing Tommy so shook up, Miss Lucy calmly told him that it's okay to not have creative talents. This one conversation was Tommy's motivation to calm down, which made the children lose interest in teasing him. It was his motivation for a behavioral switch that Kathy H. doesn't necessarily agree with. It's interesting to see that such a life changing conversation for Tommy puzzles Kathy so much. One would think that she would be happy for her good friend because she couldn't bear to watch the bullying, but she isn't quite sure if Miss Lucy is right. To Kathy, accepting not being creative seems like a paradox, but to real people in today's world it's common sense.