Never Let Me Go 7

"Listen, Tommy, your art, it is important. And not just because it's evidence. But for your own sake. You'll get a lot from it, just  for yourself." pg. 108

Up until this point, I've been very confused why creativity was so highly stressed at Hailsham. Now, I think that their creativity is what argues that these students are real people. In one of my earlier blogs, I thought that Madame took their art to protect them from something being hidden from them. Thinking about that now, it could still be somewhat true. I think that Madame is very against the plot to use the Hailsham students as organ donors. Maybe she takes the most creative and insightful pieces to some higher power, that dictates the entire process, to plea that the students are just as real of human beings as any of the "normal" people. Perhaps the higher power I'm envisioning is somewhat like the Controller in Brave New World. I think that maybe all the guardians feel that the students don't deserve their destined life because each one of them seem to express the importance of creativity. The only thing that still confuses me though is, why would Miss Lucy originally tell Tommy that he doesn't need to worry about his creativity? I feel like if this theory is true, Miss Lucy would have never given Tommy or anyone the impression that creativity and art work was something of unimportance.