"when I'm driving around, I suddenly think I've spotted some bit of [Hailsham]."(286)
The school is focussed on getting students to accept their life. This means accepting that they are different from all of the "normal" people, of whom she will eventually give her life for. This is done so well that the later fact does not even fase her. Even as Kathy grows older and knows more of just how planned her life was from the beginning, she never actually questions it. She never wonders what it would be like to have a normal life, like I assume Ruth did with her possible. Opportunities for these questions to arrise came up on every turn of those old abandoned roads, driving from hospital to hospital, reviewing sad memories, or finding Hailsham. How did it never occur to her that she could just drive in the opposite direction and never look back. She could strive for the most normal life she can on the run.
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