Juxtaposition

"You can always hear traffic on the big roads beyond the fencing, and there's a general feeling they never properly finished converting the place. A lot of the donors' rooms you can't get to with a wheelchair, or else they're too stuff or too draughty....Later on, after the Kingsfield became the familiar and precious place it did, I was in one of the admin buildings and came across a framed black-and-white photo of the place the way it was before it was converted, when it was still a holiday camp for ordinary families." -pg 218

The first paragraph of the nineteenth chapter of Never Let Me Go describes the relatively poor conditions at Kingsfield medical center. The place is depicted as uncomfortable, badly made, and generally unhelpful to the needs of its patients. As a carer, Kathy should despise the place. It's her job to make her patients as comfortably as possible and Kingsfield hinders her ability to do this. However, the second paragraph, quoted above, Kathy claims she grew to the love the center. Putting the unfavorable description of Kingsfield right next to Kathy's praise of it juxtaposes to images of the center. This juxtaposition is never immediately explained. Therefore, I assumed that Kathy cared for someone she loved in that center, possible Ruth. Or perhaps some important development occurs there. Maybe she will meet a long lost favorite guardian or someone of that nature. It is a mystery for now, but clearly the juxtaposition of the images of Kingsfield hint strongly at Kathy's experiences as a carer in the third part of Never Let Me Go.