Atonement Part 3🏥

Question 1

Whose POV is Part 3 in?

Answer 1

Briony’s

Question 2

What is Briony work?

Answer 2

Nursing

Question 3

The everyday practise of boiling, scrubbing…

Answer 3

buffing and wiping became the badge of students professional pride

Question 4

she was abandoning herself to a life of…

Answer 4

strictures, rules, obedience, housework and a constant fear of disapproval

Question 5

In the later years she regretted not being…

Answer 5

more factual, not providing herself with a store of raw material

Question 6

there were rare..

Answer 6

the moments in the day when her mind could wander freely

Question 7

it was hard to believe that…

Answer 7

barely one hundred miles away was a military disaster

Question 8

she understood how..

Answer 8

war might compound her crime

Question 9

if something happened to…

Answer 9

Robbie, if Cecilia and Robbie were never to be together…

Question 10

exhaustion was…

Answer 10

his anaesthetic

a soldier briony is treating, effect and horrors of war (the crime)

Question 11

She could see through the bloody cartilage into…

Answer 11

his mouth and onto the back of his lacerated tongue

horrors of war - effect upon all those

Question 12

What does the letter from the publishing house hint to?

Answer 12

The true narrator being Briony - we have read the chapters the publishers are criticising

Question 13

Might she come between them in some…

Answer 13

disastrous fashion? Yes, indeed.

Question 14

A private ceremony…

Answer 14

Briony was not meant to be there

briony at the wedding of the marshalls

Question 15

She felt the memories…

Answer 15

the needling detail, like a rash, like dirt on her skin

at the wedding, remembering childish lola in her bedroom

Question 16

her hair was gathered into…

Answer 16

a single childish plait

lola’s appearance as a bride - still childish, her as a victim

Question 17

What luck that was for Lola -

Answer 17

barely more than a child, prised open and taken - to marry her rapist

victim and criminal - effect of a crime

Question 18

Now was her chance to proclaim in public..

Answer 18

all the private anguish and purge herself of all that she has done wrong

what she was there for yet she did not commit to it, criminal+narrator

Question 19

the sentence had…

Answer 19

already been served. The debt was paid. The verdict stood.

justifying her choice not to stand up using her actions that initiated

Question 20

All she wanted was…

Answer 20

for Lola to know she was there and to wonder why

still the same childish briony, attention on her

Question 21

Godamnit! You’re eighteen…

Answer 21

How much growing up do you need to do?

briony’s imaginary conversation with robbie

Question 22

Come back…

Answer 22

Robbie, come back

repetition - cecilia’s effect upon him, pure love

Question 23

You’ll write to me in much greater detail. In this letter you’ll put in absolutely everything you think is relevent…

Answer 23

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.

instructions to how she can change things

Question 24

He’s immune…

Answer 24

She’ll always cover for him

lord and lady marshall

Question 25

I’m very sorry…

Answer 25

It sounded so foolish and inadequate

admitting that her actions arent enough

Question 26

she hardly expected…

Answer 26

to be forgiven

yet, she did

Question 27

She knew what was required of her

Answer 27

Not simply a letter, be a new draft, an atonement

intertextuality, a new draft, in control of the truth