Never Let Me Go 6

"'when we lost something precious, and we'd looked and looked and still couldn't find it, then we didn't have to be completely heartbroken. We still had that last bit of comfort, thinking one day, when we were grown up, and we were freeto travel around the country, we could always go and find it again in Norfolk."'
Never Let Me Go pg 66


Norfolk is just a county or city in England. For all I know it really does exist but maybe it doesn't, I'm no geography buff. However, I do know that to the students, Norfolk was hardly a geography lesson. Granted, they played it off as a joke, but they all know Norfolk has deep symbolism  for them as a whole. Referred to as the "lost corner", this real or imaginary place was a source of great hope. As the quote says, these kids could always hold out for Norfolk, where everything they lost could be found. I think this could go past literal posessions and carry on with friendships emotions and even lives. To me, Norfolk is kind of like heaven: unexplained, sometimes mocked, but always in the back of our minds. Even on someone's lowest days, they know that God (or in the novel's case, the lost posession) will be waitingat the gates of heaven (or Norfolk) to comfort them. Call me sappy, but I think it's a good connection. Norfolk is Hailsham's light at the end of the tunnel.

p.s. It does exist!