"'Your lives are set out for you. You'll become adults, then before you're old, before you're even middle-aged, you'll start to donate your vital organs. That's what each of you was created to do... You were brought into this world for a purpose, and your futures, all of them, have been decided.'"
-page 81
This quote is part of the Rising Action of the story. The speaker of this quote is Miss Lucy. Throughout the story so far, Miss Lucy has always been the guardian who has been dropping hints that the students haven't been told enough about who they are. She finally cannot take it anymore. She keeps hearing students talk about their aspirations of the future, and she knows that they will not come true. Her conscious tells her that she can no longer hide the truth from these kids. She knows they will find out eventually, but doesn't want their dreams to be crushed all at once. After Miss Lucy's rant, the kids were actually not really surprised, since they sort have been indirectly told before. It kind of surprises me how the kids react, or lack of. If I were told that my whole purpose was to donate my vital organs, and that I couldn't have kids or a family, I would be extremely upset.
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