1.) Robbie was with to city boys leading them out of the country.
2.) Cecilia wrote constantly to Robbie when he was away.
3.) Though they did not write love letters they talked about about literature and related the characters within the stories to themselves
4.) Cecilia cut herself off from her parents and isn't speaking to them.
5.) Robbie and Cecilia finally reconnect for the first time in a long time.
6.) Cecilia hadn't spoken to her parents, brother or sister since November 1935, when Robbie was sentenced. Robbie is becoming worried that he has taken her away from an important part of her life.
7.) Robbie is Cecilia's reason for life, therefore it motivates him to make it back home to her.
8.) Briony has now cut herself off from her parents in an attempt to reconnect with her sister. She refused to go to school in Cambridge in order work at her sisters former hospital as a nurse.
9.) Paul Marshall and Lola Quincey were to be married and Briony was invited. She did not want to go because she knew that Lola was marrying her rapist.
10.) Robbie was alive!
- Are we back at the beginning of the story or is Robbie with the two police officers who took him away?
- Why don't they just tell each other the truth?
- Did Robbie die?
- Why didn't Briony stop the wedding?
amok (noun) - a murderous frenzy that has traditionally been regarded as occurring especially in Malaysian culture lorry (noun) - motor truck culvert (noun) - a transverse drain euphemism (noun) - the substitution of an agreeable or inoffensive expression for one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant ; also : the expression so substituted hemorrhage (noun) - a rapid and uncontrollable loss or outflow languorous (adjective) - producing or tending to produce languor(weakness or weariness of body or mind ) stoicism (noun) - indifference to pleasure or pain sacrilegious (noun) - gross irreverence toward a hallowed person, place, or thing portico (noun) - a colonnade or covered ambulatory especially in classical architecture and often at the entrance of a building "Ahead of them the sky was beginning to clear little and glowed like a promise." - Simile "He saw a receding wash of gray and blue fading in a haze toward the setting sun like something oriented on a dinner plate." - Simile "Everything else was gray." -Metaphor "Here there were wooded valleys, streams, sunlight on the poplars which they could not take away unless they killed him." - Man vs Nature As Briony grew up she figured out that what she did to Robbie and Cecilia was unfair so she dedicated the rest of her life to make it right, imagining each soldier that entered the hospital was Robbie. She simply wanted forgiveness, something Cecilia would never give her. |
