"Some carers, though, their whole attitude lets them down. A lot of them, you can tell, are just going through the motions, waiting for the day they're told they can stop and become donors. It really gets me, too, the way so many of them "shrink" the moment they step inside a hospital. They don't know what to say to the whitecoats, they can't make themselves speak up on behalf of their donor. No wonder they end up feeling frustrated and blaming themselves when things go wrong."
~ Never Let Me Go, page 208
The readers now follow Kathy through the third phase of her life. Being a carer has always come naturally to her, although it has been more difficult for some of her peers. An example of synecdoche is when Kathy refers to the doctors as "whitecoats." Using this term helps the reader understand that the carers do not think of doctors as they would a fellow carer. In a way, describing the doctors as only something they wear makes them something else, almost a different, subhuman breed. This is ironic, considering that the carers are the ones who actually were artificially created. This separation helps the reader understand why the carers feel as if they can't talk to the doctors - because they know they are different. It must be hard for the carers to go into a hospital and work with people who aren't the same as they are and know that they will soon be in the position in which the people they care for are.
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