Anaphora

"Because however sympathetic they were, I could see that deep down they were relieved. They were relieved things had turned out the way they had; that they were in a position to comfort Ruth, instead of being left behind in the wake of a dizzying boost to her hopes. They were relieved they wouldn't have to face, more starkly than ever, the notion which fascinated and nogged and scared them: this notion of theirs that there were all kinds of possibilities open to us Hailsham students that weren't open to them." PAGE 165

This excerpt contains an example of anaphora. The narrator uses the repetition to emphasize what she thought Rodney and Chrissie were feeling. She makes it clear that no matter what they were saying on the outside, she was certain of what they were feeling. She did not even give them a chance; she immediately accused them of putting on a fake show of compassion. The empasis placed on the fact that they were "relieved" made the two seem like bad people. With the anaphora, the reader gets a view of Chrissie and Rodney as selfish. This picture has already been painted before so this characteristic of Chrissie and Rodney is reiterated. If the narrator would have stated once that they were relieved, it would have not really been read into. The fact that it is repeated multiple times makes the reader really notice what they were like and the feelings Kathy experienced. The narrator makes a big show of what she thought Chrissie and Rodney were thinking, but she never said exactly how she felt deep down. The only mention of what she was thinking was what she told Ruth. She makes Chrissie and Rodney out to be the enemies only worried about themselves when she could be experiencng some of the same feelings.