Atonement Part 3 Flashcards
Whose POV is Part 3 in?
Briony’s
What is Briony work?
Nursing
The everyday practise of boiling, scrubbing…
buffing and wiping became the badge of students professional pride
she was abandoning herself to a life of…
strictures, rules, obedience, housework and a constant fear of disapproval
In the later years she regretted not being…
more factual, not providing herself with a store of raw material
there were rare..
the moments in the day when her mind could wander freely
it was hard to believe that…
barely one hundred miles away was a military disaster
she understood how..
war might compound her crime
if something happened to…
Robbie, if Cecilia and Robbie were never to be together…
exhaustion was…
his anaesthetic
She could see through the bloody cartilage into…
his mouth and onto the back of his lacerated tongue
What does the letter from the publishing house hint to?
The true narrator being Briony - we have read the chapters the publishers are criticising
Might she come between them in some…
disastrous fashion? Yes, indeed.
A private ceremony…
Briony was not meant to be there
She felt the memories…
the needling detail, like a rash, like dirt on her skin
her hair was gathered into…
a single childish plait
What luck that was for Lola -
barely more than a child, prised open and take - to marry her rapist
Now was her chance to proclaim in public..
all the private anguish and purge herself of all that she has done wrong
the sentence had…
already been served. The debt was paid. The verdict stood.
All she wanted was…
for Lola to know she was there and to wonder why
Godamnit! You’re eighteen…
How much growing up do you need to do?
Come back…
Robbie, come back
You’ll write to me in much greater detail. In this letter you’ll put in absolutely everything you think is relevent…
Everything that led up to you saying you saw me by the lake. And why, even though you were uncertain, you stuck to your story in the months leading up to the trial.
He’s immune…
She’ll always cover for him
I’m very sorry…
It sounded so foolish and inadequate
she hardly expected…
to be forgiven
She knew what was required of her
Not simply a letter, be a new draft, an atonement
