Francis (attack)

• Francis


  Witness of the attack of Nicole and Larry
• Francis


  • Easily controlled
  • At this age (before this trauma and the impact of war), he is naive and trusting
• Larry: ''Larry's words not mine' when he is manipulated into leaving Nicole alone with Larry'
• Francis is easily controlled

  To follow a stronger will (Larry's)
• Nicole: ''my betrayal of her in her eyes' - how she looks at Francis after the attack'
• Betrayal


  Francis immediately understands and takes accountability for not stopping the attack
• Innocence wrenched from both of them in this moment
• Francis realises his hero is a villain
• Francis takes all the blame
• Francis: ''Ghostly silhouette''
• After the attack, Francis sees Larry

  As 'ghostly' dark imagery, only a corpse of his former self
• Francis has lost the man he idolised/a father figure
• This also foreshadows the plan to kill Larry