Page 7 - "There was bright sunshine, but it must have been raining earlier that day because I can remember how the sun was glinting on the muddy surface of the grass.
Early in this book a literary term has already jumped off the page at me. The imagery that Ishiguro uses here is fantastic. Before this sentence he speaks of boys playing "football", which just excites me even more for the start of soccer season. When I read this, I can close my eyes and picture the exact setting described in this excerpt. I can put myself in this situation with my friends on a Saturday afternoon in my backyard. Ishiguro has also used other imagery already to describe Hailsham. He's described it in a way that I can relate to. When I imagine this school, I imagine a college-like environment filled with energetic youth roaming the campus.
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