The Exchanges - discussion questions

What do the exchanges mean for the students at Hailsham?

What do these “events” suggest about the wider culture of the school?

What kind of values do you think they were trying to instill in the students?

Does this section give any clues about the wider society the novel is set in?

What connections do you think Ishiguro is trying to provoke the reader into making with the wider world? Why?How is your understanding of the novel affected by your own life experience? Or texts that you have read in the past …