Quotes to show... (Atonement) Flashcards
Lola as a victim(4)
“victims from a bitter civil war”
“vulnerable Quinceys”
“the twins have been torturing me”
“a girl so brittle and domineering should be brough this low by a couple of nine year olds”
Robbie as a victim(2)
“Son of a cleaner lady”
“on his knees, weeding” (first introduction)
Robbie as a villain(4)
“maniac” repetition
“I thought he was a monster”
“she could never forgive Robbie his disgusting mind”
“issuing a command which Cecilia dare not disobey”
Cecilia as a victim(4)
“Frail white nymph”
“no one was holding Cecilia back, no one would care particularly if she left”
“her mother, when she wasn’t nurturing her migraines, seemed distant, even unfriendly”
“she had little money in her account” (context)
Briony as a victim(2)
“prone to nightmares”
“you think the world is at your feet, it can still rise up and tread on you”
Briony as a villain(1)
“Briony Tallis the writer”
“the hostile gaze of Briony”
Paul Marshall as a villain(0)
Lola’s age(1)
The womanly tang of Lola’s perfume could not conceal a childish whiff of Germolene”
Paul Marshall’s deceptive looks(0)
Briony as a writer(4)
“Briony Tallis the writer”
“she cast a narrative spell”
“she could write a scene like the one by the fountain”
“Briony was lost to her fantasies”
Briony’s family relationships(0)
Briony’s age(3)
“she was entering an arena of adult emotion”
childhood she considered closed”
“attaining adulthood was all about the eager acceptance of such impediments”
other quotes
Ugliness of the talis home
war against germs never ceased
Road no longer had the protection of trees
Thick walls of silence
dark stained paneling reaching from the floor to the ceiling
“it’s really pretty out there”
“no moon”
“least of my offences against voracity”
“he saw that the girl was almost a young woman”
“growing up”
“shrine to her controlling demon”
“may have been a child’s pajamas”
“it was a leg in a tree”
“if you hit me i’ll tell the parents”
“bomb that destroyed Balham Underground station”
“two inch scratch”
“liars,liars,liars”
“the indifference in which men could lob shells into landscape”
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