Lola

Question 1

Victim

Answer 1

‘Refugees from a bitter domestic civil war should have mattered more to Briony’ ch1, pg8

Question 2

antagonist

Answer 2

‘Briony suspected that behind her older cousin’s perfect manners was a destructive intent’ ch3, pg34
Duplicity, appearance vs reality

‘She was advancing on him, her green eyes narrowed like a cat’s’ ch4,pg57 - zoomorphism, vilainous elements.

‘She seized him by an ear and put her face close to his’ ch5, pg57
Threatening

‘A tall nettle with a preening look, its head coyly drooping and its middle leaves turned outwards like hands protesting innocence - this was Lola… This was too satisfying to let go, and the next several nettles were Lola too; one leaning across to whisper in the ear of it’s neighbour, was cut down with an outrageous lie on her lips; here she was again, standing apart from the others, head cocked in poisonous scheming ch7p74

Question 3

Stubborn and authoritative

Answer 3

‘She had green eyes and *sharp bones in her face, and hollow cheeks, and there was something brittle in her reticence that suggested strong will and a temper easily lost.’ ch1,pg10

Question 4

In between a child and an adult

Answer 4

‘her nearly adult mind was elsewhere’ ch1, pg17

‘Lola had come to the nursery that morning in the guise of the adult she considered herself at heart to be’ ch3,pg34

‘like and apprentice mouthing the incantation of a magus’ ch5,pg59 - simile = playing adult/pretending

‘he had seen three children. Now he saw that the girl was almost a young woman’ ch5,pg60 Paul’s perspective shift