In chapter 7 of Never Let Me Go, Miss Lucy says, "It's just as well the fences at Hailsham aren't electrified. You get terrible accidents sometimes."...

Miss Lucy is
teaching a poetry lesson to her
English class and the topic of conversation falls on soldiers
held in World
War 2 prison camps.

"One of the boys

asked if the fences around the camps had been electrified, and then someone else had
said how
strange it must have been, living in a place like that, where you
could commit suicide any time
you liked just by touching a fence."

The class
pretends to joke about touching
imaginary fences and getting electrocuted, and that's when Miss
Lucy remarks
about "terrible accidents." She juxtaposes the image of a prisoner of war

intentionally killing himself on a fence with both the images of children
playfully
mocking...

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