Minor Characters
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- Created on: 19-01-22 22:41
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- Minor characters
- Nettle
- Corporal, trusts R - affection showed in jest
- Him and R left by themselves to go to Dunkirk
- Nurses and feeds R on the beaches of Dunkirk
- Corresponded with B through letter, gave her info abt R's last days in the war.
- Mace
- Mentally inferior to R, but has respect for his intelligence
- Rescues a British RAF private from a mob in a bar in Dunkirk
- Sister Drummond
- Head Nurse at B's hospital
- Vicious dictator - demands order, routine, discipline. Feared by her staff
- ‘the lacerating force of the sister’s fury’
- ‘how dare you speak that way in front of one of my nurses…your injuries are superficial. So you’ll consider yourself lucky. And you’ll show some courage worthy of your uniform’
- ‘Briony dreaded her bad opinion. Praise was unheard of. The best one could hope for was indifference’
- Fiona
- B's only friend she makes as a nurse
- V diff from B; diff classes & motivations
- ‘Fiona was Briony’s friend, by definition’
- ‘she was ginger-haired and freckled, which made Briony automatically wary. But unlike Lola, Fiona was loud and jolly, with dimples on the backs of her hands and an enormous bosom which caused the other girls to say that she was bound to be a ward sister one day’
- ‘Fiona and Briony had little chance to find out if they actually liked each other. It was convenient to assume they did’ ed
- Ernst Turner
- R's dad, left when R was 6yrs old
- 'he would walk away from his job as the Tallises’ gardener, away from the bungalow, without luggage, without even a farewell note on the kitchen table, leaving his wife and their six-year-old son to wonder about him for the rest of their lives’
- Luc
- ‘‘he looked like a boy of fifteen…a kind of abstracted childlike wonder. It was hard to think of him as a soldier’
- ‘a spongy crimson mess of brain’
- ‘do you love me?’ She hesitated. ‘Yes.’ No other reply was possible. Besides, for that moment, she did. He was a lovely boy who was a long way from his family and he was about to die’
- Betty
- Head Maid
- Terrifying, forceful, distant, firm
- Surrogate mom to Tallis kids, oversaw rest of the staff
- Hermione Q
- Emily's little sister
- Free spirit, no regard for social expectations
- Odd bond w/ C - stated both admire the other
- Grandad Harry Tallis
- Jack's dad - grew up in an ironmonger's shop, made money patenting locks, bolts & latches
- Son of farm labourer who changed surname to Tallis
- Uncle Clem
- Jack's older brother; died in WW1
- Saved a Belgian Village by telling them abt a planned bomb attack
- As gratitude gave him a vase - fought while carrying it
- Vase got to England but he did not
- Auntie Venus
- Distant relative who came to live w/ them b/c of age & ailing
- Nurse in Canada, came to Eng to die - died when C was 10, had the nicest room & view from it.
- P. C. Vockins
- Village investigator/policeman
- Leads inquiry into the **** of L
- Used to be a TU, very humble, sincere & generous in his trade. Well liked by everyone.
- Brother is later commissioned as the ARP Warden during prep for the invasion - disliked b/c of strict methods
- Henry & Jean-Marie Bonnet
- French Brothers in countryside - shelter R, Nettle and Mace on their march back to Eng
- Share food and wine w/ 3 wounded British men - supply them w/ rations
- Thierry
- B's dead husband
- Nettle
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