Atonement Key Quotes - Part one

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At some moments chilling, at others
desperately sad, the play told a tale of the heart
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Love that did not build
a foundation on good sense was doomed
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Still not gone from
her, not quite yet - Briony's mother
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Briony was hardly to know it then,
but this was the project's highest point of fulfilment - prolepsis
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Unclosed books, unfolded clothes,
unamde bed, unemptied ashtray - Cecilia, repitition of preflex 'un'
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Controlling
demon - Briony
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Another was a passion
for secrets - Briony, foreshadows crime
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An old tin
petty cash box - Briony, describing aspects of her personality
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Isolation of
the Tallis house
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Moment she described a character's weakness;
the reader was bound to speculate that she was describing herself - Briony
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Unapologetically demanding her family's
total attention as she cast her narrative spells - Briony
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Cecilia's enthusiasm, for example,
seemed a little overstated - Briony mocking her sister
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The Trials of Arabella may have been a meodrama,
but its author had yet to hear the term - Briony, shows her naivety
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Lola
Vladimir Nabokov, in his book child is preyed on, foreshadows
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Along with betrayal, illness,
thieving, assult and mendacity - Briony's view of divorce
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The nursery
reinforces Briony being childlike
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Freckled
repitition, prejudice against freckles, usually lower class as work in the sun
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Left leg balanced on right knee, perfume,
ankle braclet, vermilion - Lola, acting older
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Missing a
triangle - triangle is a motif
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Briony knew he had a point
this was precisely why she loved plays - loves to show off
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She said no,
but she meant yes - About Lola playing the part of Arabella, shows her lack of power
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She wanted to leave, she wanted to lie alone, face down
on her bed and savour the vile piquancy of the moment - Briony, melodramatic
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Self-pity needed
her full attention - Briony
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Bony
shoulders - Briony, shows weakness
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Determined to demonstrate that
her nearly adult mind was elsewhere - Lola
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Card 2

Front

Love that did not build

Back

a foundation on good sense was doomed

Card 3

Front

Still not gone from

Back

Preview of the front of card 3

Card 4

Front

Briony was hardly to know it then,

Back

Preview of the front of card 4

Card 5

Front

Unclosed books, unfolded clothes,

Back

Preview of the front of card 5
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