Hallet


	Personality	Relationships
	Naive Innocence Brave	Father and Son relationship with Prior His relationship with his patriotic father His relationship with his fiance
	Key Parts	Key Quotes
	When he first meets Prior His injury in conflict His death which symbolises the destruction of the innocence due to conflict	"'I'm really rather looking forward to it.'" - Page 45 '"He was scared shitless, he was right to be scared shitless, and any 'reassuring remark risked drawing attention to one or other of these unfortunate facts"' - Page 45 "His parents think he's too young to marry, which he fiercely objects to, pointing out that he's old enough for this. Of course I don't think he's old enough for this either, but I don't say so" - Page 114 - How old do you have to be to be involved with conflict "Hallet and Potts looked from one to the other, grinning like embarrassed dogs. They obviously thought we'd cracked" - Page 149 shows that they are innocent and are yet to be exposed to the true horrors of war "His skin blue in the starlight as our skins were too, but his was the deep blue of shock" - Page 196 "Second Lieutenant Matthew Hallet, aged twenty, admitted 18 October with bullet wounds to the head and to the lower jaw" - Page 230 "'He's been so brave. He's been so bloody brave.'" - Page 265 "His mother tried to soothe him, but he didn't hear her. Shotvarfet. Shotvarfet. Again and again, each time louder, ringing across the war'" - Page 274

"'I'm really rather looking forward to it.'" - Page 45
'"He was scared shitless, he was right to be scared shitless, and any 'reassuring remark risked drawing attention to one or other of these unfortunate facts"' - Page 45
"His parents think he's too young to marry, which he fiercely objects to, pointing out that he's old enough for this. Of course I don't think he's old enough for this either, but I don't say so" - Page 114 - How old do you have to be to be involved with conflict
"Hallet and Potts looked from one to the other, grinning like embarrassed dogs. They obviously thought we'd cracked" - Page 149 shows that they are innocent and are yet to be exposed to the true horrors of war
"His skin blue in the starlight as our skins were too, but his was the deep blue of shock" - Page 196
"Second Lieutenant Matthew Hallet, aged twenty, admitted 18 October with bullet wounds to the head and to the lower jaw" - Page 230
"'He's been so brave. He's been so bloody brave.'" - Page 265
"His mother tried to soothe him, but he didn't hear her. Shotvarfet. Shotvarfet. Again and again, each time louder, ringing across the war'" - Page 274

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