"I thought about Hailsham closing, and how it was like someone coming along with a pair of shears and snipping the balloon strings just where they entwined above the man's fist. Once that happened, there'd be no real sense in which those balloons belonged with each other any more." (pg. 213)
The technique used in this quote is a metaphor. The author relates the closing of the school to cutting the strings of a fist full of balloons and having them fly away. After they leave the hand, it doesn't matter who they belonged to because now they are free. This is exactly how Kathy feels right now. When they close Hailsham, she will have no place to call home or a place to go back and visit. Closing the school makes her upset, but she can't do anything about it. Also in this chapter, Kathy runs into Laura, and Laura talks her into becoming Ruth's carer. Kathy decides to be Ruth's carer, and Ruth wants Kathy to take her and Tommy to the boat. Kathy agrees to take them. I don't know if this is a good idea or not. Hopefully, the three of them can catch up and not have any problems, but something could go bad.
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