"It's like walking past a mirror you've walked past every day of your life, and suddenly it shows you something else, something troubling and strange."
~ Never Let Me Go, page 36
In chapter three, Kathy recalls an incident in her childhood known by her classmates as the "token controversy." When Madame comes to take away their most valuable pieces of artwork for honorable display, the students start to question the tokens they've lost. Ruth, Kathy, and their group of friends decide to perform an experiment. However, the results are not what they expect. They find that Madame is not only afraid of them, but she finds them slightly repulsive and is almost disgusted by them. Undoubtedly, this would be emotionally painful to anyone to be viewed this way; it's quite ironic that what started as a fun little game to observe, metaphorically, a rat in her cage changed into the scientists being viewed as the animal, the "spider." Madame's opinions of the students stimulate the reader's thought. I'm now wondering if there is something else that is going on.
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