Gabriel Flashcards
What happens at the end of the scene?
She talks to Gabriel and finds out he doesn’t remember anything, just falling. She goes down to the kitchen make him some sandwiches.
Summary
- Estelle (10 year old daughter) is making a square of power using powder and wishes for her brother (Lily’s husband) to come and save them as an angel. Lily bursts in and says that there is a man naked and unconscious on the beach and that they have to help him, Estelle goes with him. Jeanne comes with Von Pfunz and gives away a lot of details like Lily is a jew because she assumed she doesn’t speak english and they return and say they were out after curfew because they were tending a sick cow - Von Pfunz knows she is a jew (even tho there are no cows) Estelle is angry at mum. Calls the man gabriel and warms him up - he looks like Myles
- Gabriel wakes up but doesn’t remember anything
- Estelle has been playing tricks on Von Pfunz pretending his house is haunted (belonged to Jeanne’s husband) , Von Pfunz comes and meets Gabriel and voN pfUNZ says he is an SS officer who was missing - Gabriel can speek german
- Gabriel has pains and passes out, Jeanne confronts him, they make love
- Read his diary / poetry book Gabriel - they find out want is really happening
- Von Pfunz returns for hims book again, they confront him about it, Gabriel told Von Pfunz, Lily lies and says he’s an ss TO Protect him, Von Pfunz reveals he knows she’s a jew
- Estelle stabs VON punfz, lily is about to kill him but doesn’t want to be like him, jeanne kills him, puts it on gabriel, gabriel runs to the sea, and he’s legs aren’t touching the ground - angel, Lily decides to say
Interaction with others
seeming loves her husband but doesn’t because left her stuck here, loves Estelle, protects her, protects Gabriel, believes that Gabriel doesn’t know, Lake (housekeeping) provides another explanation - bank clerk who translated for the germans who has a brain tumour,
what they say: that is because you are good
Given circumstances
Who am I?
Lily, a young jewish woman brought to the island by my husband (an RAF who is missing and presumed dead) exposition of their love but she says to gabriel she doesn’t love him, she thought she did but she is stuck here, she doesn’t cry
Where am I
Island of Gurnsey, occupied by germans off the coast of france between england, she is stuck here but she couldn’t go to london because Estelle got scared and ran off and by the time she found her the boats were gone. Tiny island
When is it?
1943, during WW2, dangerous for a jew
What do I want?
I WANT TO GET OFF THIS STUPID ISLAND ‘You’re in your coffin’
Why do I want it?
I HATE THIS ISLAND hates her life as a farmer for the black market to sell to the Germans while the island is staving and wants to do something in london, scared as a hidden jew in an occupied area
How do i get it?
I don’t know, i dont think i can, no way out, hope in Gabriel
Rhythm - tempo
Mood = trapped high rhythm - temp tight
