Brighton Rock key quotes - part 3

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If she took cash she
gave something in return - Ida
1 of 23
A boy in a
shabby suit - Pinkie
2 of 23
She had no pity for
something she didn't understand - Ida, doesn't understand religion
3 of 23
An eye for
an eye - religious context
4 of 23
Wake
Ida - relates to a boat
5 of 23
Her friends
'friends' are people that Ida has slept with
6 of 23
Battlefield
Ida - entertainment to her
7 of 23
Like a man with a poisoned body who believes that
all will be well when a single tooth is drawn - foreshadows
8 of 23
It was like an abscess
jetting its poison through the nerves
9 of 23
A cheap photographer with a box camera
snapped him as the shadow fell
10 of 23
Cheap shops stood between the sea and
the stone wall, selling Brighton rick - sin runs through you
11 of 23
The poison twisted in
the boy's veins - poison is metaphorical for original sin
12 of 23
When he looked at the girl who admired him
the poison oozed out again
13 of 23
Soured
virginity - Pinkie
14 of 23
The frightening weekly exercise of his
parents which he watched from his single bed - thinks of it as exercise
15 of 23
Between the stirrup and the ground,
he something sought and something found - something should be mercy, doesn't understand concept
16 of 23
Anything was better than
the lips
17 of 23
***** of sexual desire
disturbed him like a sickness
18 of 23
It was worth
murdering a world - would kill the world to not have sex
19 of 23
Spicer was not set
for the flames - hell
20 of 23
The gold
cigar-lighter - criminal status
21 of 23
The flakes of
sausage roll - semantic field of deterioartion
22 of 23
Agnus dei qui tollis peccata mundi... dona novis pacem
Lamb of god, who takest away the sins of the world, have mercy on us
23 of 23

Other cards in this set

Card 2

Front

A boy in a

Back

shabby suit - Pinkie

Card 3

Front

She had no pity for

Back

Preview of the front of card 3

Card 4

Front

An eye for

Back

Preview of the front of card 4

Card 5

Front

Wake

Back

Preview of the front of card 5
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