Robbie

• 'It was an interesting combination in a man, intelligence and sheer bulk'

  • readers first impression of robbie
• 'I am what I am'

  • robbies self belief
  • empowering as he is a lower class charecter
• 'A fresh adventure, not an exile at all' 'thought of himself in 1962'

  • robbie looking into the future
  • he will not make it to 1962 as he dies in dunkirk
• 'But this new element- this innocent child- put his lapse beyond mitigation'

  • robbie feels guilt for ruining brionys innocence
• 'He had never hated anyone until now... deny him of what was his'

  • shows his pleasant nature
  • hatered towards the criminal
  • briony destroyed his life
• 'His business was to survive: he could not remember why'

  • robbie is deteriorating
  • sepsis is taking over his body
• 'First his own life ruined, then everyone else's'

  • destruction of war
  • also the actions of briony have destroyed his life
• 'The story could resume, the one he had been planning. He would simply resume'

  • implies that he had planned a life with Cecilia
  • Robbie was going to study to become a doctor
• 'Yes she was a child at the time, and he did not forgive her. He would not forgive her'

  • shows how angered he has been about the situation
  • 'her' is briony
  • she had destroyed his life
• 'You killed no one today? But how many did you leave to die?'

  • robbie feels guilt towards his actions in the war
  • feels like a criminal?
• 'It was the reason he had survived'

  • robbies life has been pushed forwards because of his love for cecilia
• 'The memories were crowding in and there was nothing he could do'

  • robbie has developed ptsd from his time in prison
  • brionys actions have created a psychological trauma
• 'Robbie Turner died of septicaemia at Bray Dunes on 1st June 1940'

  • cecilia and Robbie were never united
  • shows that the life they had in London together was fiction created by briony
• 'We'll sleep it off Briony'

  • does robbie believe he is just as guilty as briony?
  • if so why?
• 'he was without social unease-inappropriately so in the view of many'

  • not viewed highly due to his social class
  • because of his class he is the obvious victim
• "The boy on his shoulders appeared to be asleep"

  • robbie as a victim
  • gives robbie a nurturing image
• "he was lower in rank"

  • not only in war but in society
  • his conviction has forced him to be in a lower rank
  • yet another punishment brought on by brionys actions