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Brighton Rock - Chapter Summaries Flashcards

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Part 1: Ch 1

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  • Hale dies
  • 3 - 19
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Part 1: Ch 2

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  • Pinkie and gang introduced
  • Pg 20-27
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Part 1: Ch 3

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Ida introduced - finds news of Hales death
- Pg 28-43

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Part 2: Ch 1

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  • Pinkie meets rose
  • 47-62
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Part 2: Ch 2

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  • Pinkie meets colleoni
  • 63-70
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Part 3: Ch 1

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  • Ida questions rose
  • War imagery
  • 73-85
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Part 3: Ch 2

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  • focalised through spicer
  • anxious (re-read)
  • 86-90
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Part 3: Ch 3

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  • pinkie + rose
  • threatens and abuses her
  • they go back to nelson place
  • 91-99
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Part 3: Ch 4

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  • Focalised through spicer (re-read)
  • pinkie tells him he needs a holiday
  • 100-103
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Part 4: Ch 1

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  • Pinkie, Spicer at races or something (re-read)
  • Pinkie gets attacked
  • meets rose
  • (i think its implied spicer died at end)
  • 107-128
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Part 4: Ch 2

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  • Ida again goes to find rose
  • rose very vulnerable and victimised
  • 129-131
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Part 4: Ch 3

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  • Pinkie - focalised
  • Spicer dead by this point
  • Mr Prewitt + Dallow there
  • Pinkie leaves to find rose - table / chair metaphor
  • quote about parents at end
  • 132-137
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Part 5: Ch 1

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  • Pinkie and Dallow talking
  • Dallow’s loyalty shown
  • Pinkies worried about rose and marriage and what he has done
  • pinkie tries to have sex
  • Pg 141-147
    (re-read)
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Part 5: Ch 2

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  • Pinkie, Cubbit and Dallow + rose
  • Pinkie worried about marriage - main thing
  • again takes his fear and anger out on rose
  • table or chair
  • 148-152
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Part 5: Ch 3

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  • Little bit of a recap of pinkie’s traumatic childhood - poverty and sex - also his psychology - lack on innocence
  • main thing going to get Rose’s parents blessing to marry
  • 153-156
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Part 5: Ch 4

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  • Ida - sexual imagery
  • with phil corkery - about to have sex?
  • 157-159
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Part 5: Ch 5

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  • pinkie, cubbit, dallow
  • defends rose after dallow insults her
  • tells cubbit about spicer in fit of anger
  • cubbit quits - or kicked out?
  • 160-163
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Part 5: Ch 6

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  • Ida
  • repeated motives - after they have had sex - back to her mission
  • 164-165
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Part 6: Ch 1

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  • Cubbit lonely + sad
  • tries to get a job from colleoni - meets crab
  • meets ida - wants to confide
  • cubbit tells her enough - she wants to save rose
  • 169-179
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Part 6: Ch 2

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  • pinkie and rose’s “wedding”
  • he’s full of fear
  • they get married
  • he cries
  • they have sex
  • 180- 204
  • one of the longest chapters
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Part 7: Ch 1

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  • rose settling into new life
  • goes to snows to brag - doesn’t
  • Ida comes in and again tries to “help her”
  • thinks about babies
  • 207-218
22
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Part 7: Ch 2

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  • Rose lies to pinkie about who the woman was
  • debates with dallow about whether she was lying
  • thinks about making her kill herself
    219-224
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Part 7: Ch 3

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  • Pinkie goes to see mr prewitt; complains about his wife
  • pinkie scared
    -tells him to shush + leave - gives him money
  • 225-230
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Part 7: Ch 4

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  • rose and pinkie together talking
  • baby crying - rose upset
  • pinkie thinks about possibility of children
  • 231-233
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Part 7: Ch 5

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  • dallow + pinkie
  • talks about suicide pact
  • talk, talk, talk
  • loyalty
  • re-read
  • 234-240
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Part 7: Ch 6

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  • Ida arnold- admits shes doing it partially for fun to phil
  • narcisistic qualities - remembers who she has saves
  • 241-243
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Part 7: Ch 7

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  • even tho everything is seemingly sorted (covered up)
  • pinkie tells rose about suicide pact
  • 244-252
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Part 7: Ch 8

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  • ida finds dallow
  • dallow focalisation
  • debates on what has happened
  • ida forces dallow to get into car
  • 253-258
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Part 7: Ch 9

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  • pinkie and rose at bar or something - preparing for death
  • pinkie dies
  • 259-264
30
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Part 7: Ch 10

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  • Ida and Phil
  • she leaves rose to herself
  • 265-266
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Part 7: Ch 11

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  • Rose sad - goes to confess
  • goes to listen to tape
  • 267-269

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