"I though about Hailsham closing, and how it was like someone coming along with a pair of shears and snipping the balloon strings just where they entwined above the man's fist."
This metaphor was awesome! I don't know how people think of things like this! It makes it so much more understandable when something is stated like this. The Hailsham kids had grown up together and they seemed bonded in a way that was very special, but then they're just thrown out into the world to fend for themselves. It really is just like balloons. They have no allegiance to each other after they are released, so the wind takes them in different directions. It doesn't mean some won't end up in the same place, but it also doesn't ensure that some won't end up stranded or get popped. The same thing happens when the Hailsham kids leave the actual school, and it happens on a larger scale when they leave to begin training. Most of them seem fine with this parting, but Kathy doesn't exactly know how to let go. Relating this with the title? Yes, of course!
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