setting Flashcards
hot weather
‘Hot weather encouraged loose morals among young people. Fewer layers of clothing, a thousand more places to meet. Out of doors, out of control’ p128
‘Briony’s hot headed decision. On a cooler day we’d be in the library watching the theatricals now’ p130
Briony’s bedroom (3)
‘Briony’s [room] was a shrine to her controlling demon’ p5
‘Her straight-backed dolls appeared to be under strict instructions not to touch the walls… suggested by their even ranks and spacing a citizen’s army awaiting orders’ p5
‘A taste for the miniature was one aspect of an orderly spirit’ p5
The fountain scene (3)
‘The rolling surface had yet to recover its tranquility, and the turbulence was driven by the lingering spirit of her fury. He put his hand flat upon the surface, as though to quell it.’ P30-31
‘The damp patch on the gravel had evaporated. Now there was nothing left of the dumb show by the fountain beyond what survived in memory, in three separate and overlapping memories. The truth had become as ghostly as invention.’ P41
‘With a sound like a dry twig snapping, a section of the lip of the vase came away in his hand, and split into two…’ p29
The Library (2)
‘They began to make love against the library shelves which creaked with their movement’ p138
‘He opened his eyes. It was a library, in a house, in total silence’ p138
The crime scene (4)
Darkness doubled the impression of speed.’ P157 ch13
‘The way was in total blackness’ p159 ch13
‘Here too there would be no light’ p159 ch13
‘The nearer trees, or at least their trunks, had a human form. Or could conceal one. Even a man standing in front of a tree trunk would not be visible to her’ p162 ch13
‘The vertical mass was a figure, a person who was now backing away from her
The setting of war compounds Briony’s crime (1)
Her secret torment and the public upheaval of war had always seemed separate worlds, but now she understood how the war might compound her crime.’ P288
Setting of war
What were they supposed to do? Carry a dozen men on their backs when they could barely walk themselves?’ p245
‘Like everyone else, Turner kept going’ p242
A dozen or so English soldiers in the road… A couple of the bodies were almost cut in half’ p199
‘Twenty men in the back of a single-ton lorry killed with a single bomb’ p218
‘The stench was cruel, insinuating itself into the folds of his clothes’ p227
The gore of the hospital (7)
They saw the field ambulances among the lorries, and coming closer
‘Everywhere – a soup of smells – the sticky sour odour of fresh blood,
the vicious oil clung to the skin and seared through the tissue
his lips were too ruined, too swollen, and his tongue too blistered
his bed was already taken by another case
