Exposition

"About our guardians, about how we each had our own collection chests under our beds, the foot ball, the rounders, the little path that took you all around to the out side of the main house, round all it's nooks and crannies, the duck pond, the view from the Art Room over the fields on a foggy morning. " (5)

The Exposition introduces two different settings at the beginning of the novel. The first takes place in unknown locations, from where Kathy tells the story, like hospitals or in her car reminiscing. And from this nostalgia come the second setting, Hailsham, when she flashes back to all the memories that Ruth and Tommy remind her of. She also mentions how lucky she and her classmates were, because not all institutions compared to Hailsham, and were most unpleasant places from the grimace on the Donar's face. She then introduces Ruth and Tommy, describing Ruth as a clear leader and the dominant one in the friendship and Tommy as easily angered and teased because of it. This lends evidence to why some key questions are brought up in the corse of this story, and makes the reader want to solve them. The characterization explains many arguments that will come up between the main characters. So, these key introductions, such as Hailsham being far better than other schools and the personalities of her friends, explain many of the main events that take place during the Novel