Atonement Part 2 Flashcards
it was the unexpected…
detail that threw him afterwards and would not let him go
severed cleanly…no sign of blood or torn flesh.. it seemed to be on…
display for their benefit or enlightenment: this is a leg
So which way, Guv’nor?…
they called him that to settle the difficult matter of rank
he intended to survive…
he had one good reason to survive
when they shut their eyes…
they saw those mutilated bodies
no letters from her…
no way back
he had been diagnosed, with clinical precision…
as morbidly over-sexed, and in need of help as well as correction
this moment had been imagined and…
desired for too long and could not measure up
he had shrunk…
in every sense. Prison made him despise himself.
the gesture had to…
carry all that had not been said
Cecilia had not spoken to her parents, brother or…
sister since November 1935 when Robbie was sentenced
they chose to believe the…
evidence of a silly, hysterical little girl
they encouraged her…
by giving her no room to turn back
I’m beginning to understand the…
snobbery that lay behind their stupidity
I believe…
in you completely
she’s such a …
fantasist, as we know to our cost
she’s taken on nursing…
as a sort of penance
he walked / across / the land /…
until / he came / to the sea
he and Cecilia would no longer be isolated…
their love would have space and a society to grow in
he had even conjured…
her onto the end of his bayonet
Yes, she was a child at the time, and he did not forgive her…
he would never forgive her. That was the lasting damage
his business was to…
survive, though he had forgotten why
In Pt2 was is Robbie referred as?
Turner
What does McEwan focus on in Pt2?
The horrors and effects of war
What is one part in Pt2 that we can be sure Briony did not fabricate?
The letters between Robbie and Cecilia
Whose POV is Pt2 written in?
Robbie’s
- really its Briony writing as Robbie
