Chapter 3 Flashcards
Lola had came to the nursery that morning in the guise of the adult she considered herself at heart to be.
Other tokens of maturity
Freckled wrist
The silence in the house was complete - no voices or footfalls downstairs, no murmurs
She thought how she should take more care of her appearance… it was childish not too
Dust from along the skirting board had dirtied her hands and the back of her dress. Away in her thoughts, she wiped her palms down her front
The sequence was illogical- the drowning scene, followed by a revive, should have preceded the marriage proposal.
She accepted that she did not understand, and that she must simply watch.
What power one could have over the other, and how easy it was to get everything wrong, completely wrong.b
It’s not just fairytales anymore
It was confusion and misunderstanding above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you.
What POV?
Brionies
Bruonys acxounr of what she sees at fountain
Danny hardman as predator
“Danny hardman watching from the doorway. He had to be asked to leave”
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Brionys fairy tale writing
Here we have evidence of brionys imagination and her fairy tale writing
She views the situation initially as a “proposal of marriage”
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Briony mis interprets sitauation
“What stranger power did he have over her. Blackmail? Threats?”
Plunged into adult life
“Across the years to adult behaviour, to rites and conventions she knew nothing about, as yet”
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Her down fall - child
Crimes against reader
Ironic
“She could write the scene 3 times over, from 3 points of view”
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Truth didn’t exist
No real truth as exists differently In people’s mind
“The truth has become as ghostly as invention “
How is she child like
Wipes dirty hands on dres
Plays with finger
Fairy tale writing
