How does Kazuo Ishiguro use the character Tommy to explore ideas about being an outsider in the novel Never Let Me Go?

From the
beginning of the novel, Tommy is a character who is out of step with his Hailsham peers. In the
early pages of the book, Ishiguro uses the character of Tommy to illustrate two ways a young
person can interpret the experience of being an outsider.

Tommy is a boy who
feels his emotions deeply, and the others treat his outbursts as commonplace and amusing. From a
young age, Tommy is taunted and baited by the other boys, and most of the girls find his
humiliation entertaining. Though he is known to be a sensitive soul, prone to temper tantrums
since he was very small, he is considered to be the source of his own problems, which is a
common interpretation of negative situations many outsiders face even today. This comment on the
state of being an outsider is the first one Ishiguro makes through the character of Tommy: to be
an outsider is to be vulnerable and worse, to be subject of blame by the mainstream party as
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