Key Bits

Question 1

What does epilogue reveal ?

Answer 1

Meta narrative

Outer fiction that enclosure all that has come before

Question 2

Part one

Answer 2

Events happen over the course of one day

Different points of view - different perspectives

Not much action

Question 3

Part 3

Answer 3

Robbies pov

Clearer way

Question 4

Part three

Answer 4

Bruonys pov

Epilogue is deceptive - we feel as if we’ve been presented with resolution - robbies survival / briony matures / she meets lover

Uses fiction to impose order and tightness to events that don’t occur - crime against reassert

Question 5

Bruonys language

Answer 5

Language that reflects her literary aspirations

She is the omniscient narrator - fluent / not emotional

Question 6

Creolise lanaguhe

Answer 6

Packed with extensive detail

Slow to read

Evocative images

Question 7

Robbies lanagube

Answer 7

Reflective

Develops important aspects in greater depth

Juxtaposes imagines with life in war and at home

Question 8

The lack of legal system

Answer 8

No detectives
Rape not explorered
Police aren’t good
Over look matter due to wealth

Lower class

Question 9

Robbies unconventional guilt

Answer 9

Innocent
Pathos

“What was guilt these days? It was cheap. Everyone was guilty”
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Guilty for those he couldn’t save