"We certainly knew- though not in any deep sense- that we were different from our guardians, and also from the normal people outside; we perhaps even knew that a long way down the line there were donations waiting for us" (page 69).
I did not really find any great use of literary terms in this section, but I did notice how odd the above sentence's syntax was. The use of hyphens made this sentence really stand out in the chapter as being one of extreme importance. The hyphenated phrase serves to put the previous statement into correct terms. It was important to have the phrase because without it, we would have thought that Kathy and the students actually had complete knowledge on the subject, which would have contradicted previous stories from Kathy.
The syntax was also strange based on the use of the semicolon. I have always been taught to avoid using semicolons, because the flow of thought usually works better when I break up the sentences, but it seems to be very helpful here. It really aides in this sentence structure due to the nature of the second half of the sentence being more about the future than the first half of the sentence. Putting it into two separate sentences would have made the two parts feel unconnected, so I definitely feel that the semicolon was a necessity.
Overall, this chapter seemed to be awkwardly broken up into five sections based on five semi-connected themes and anecdotes.
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