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• Nicole Renard Themes

  • innocence and purity
  • loss of innocence
  • heroism
  • appearance and reality
  • forgiveness
• Larry Lasalle Themes

  • appearance and reality
  • loss of innocence
  • heroism
  • revenge
• Francou cassavani Themes


  • appearance & reality
  • war
  • heroism
  • revenge
  • forgiveness
• francais appearance and reality

  ‘My name is Francis cassavant and I have no face’
• Francais appearance and reality

  ‘I feel like a spy in disguise’
• Francis appearance and reality

  ‘ I’m not the hero he thinks I am’
• Larry appearance and reality

  ‘ movie star smile’
• Larry appearance and reality

  ‘ the air of mystery that surrounded him added to his glamour’
• Larry appearance and reality

  ‘ he tamed the notorious school Yard bully’
• Nicole appearance and reality

  ‘ her eyes do not show mischief’
• Nicole appearance and reality

  ‘ her voice was sharp and brittle’
• Nicole appearance and reality

  ‘ now her hair is short’
• Francis says idealise love for Nicole

  ‘ I silently pledged her my love and loyalty forever’
• Francis says idealise love for Nicole

  ‘ I never knew love could be so agonising’
• Francis says idealise love for Nicole

  ‘ a knight at her feet’
• Larry is a natural and destructive love


  ‘ sweet young things’
• Larry is a natural and destructive love


  ‘ we love the things that make us evil. I love sweet young things’
• Larry and natural and destructive love


  ‘ there’s all kinds of love, Francis’
• Larry’s real love for Francis

  ‘Don’t you know that we loved you?’
• Larry real love for Francis

  ‘ if I want one thing, it would be to have you look at me again the way you did at the wreck centre’
• Larry’s real love for Francis

  ‘ you’re safe with me Francis. You were always safe with me.’
• Fraternal love and camaraderie

  ‘I close my eyes and see them’
• Fraternal love and camaraderie

  ‘ you would have jumped on that grenade anyways’
• Fraternal love and Camarade

  ‘ I saw how young they were’
• War - veterans 


  ‘ not like the other veterans in the Saint Jude club’
• War – veterans


  ‘ we weren’t heroes we were only there’
• War– veterans


  ‘ the scared war’
• War- Francis


  ‘ I’m not the hero he thinks I am’
• War – Francis


  ‘ I wasn’t Joseph Casavant anymore’
• War – Francis


  ‘ you would have jumped on that grenade anyway Francis’
• war-Larry

  ‘ Larry was a hero yes but he has been a hero to us long before he went to war’
• War – Larry


  ‘ he seems fragile now’
• War – Larry


  ‘ no more dancing for me… No more young things no more anything’
• Heroism-Larry

  ‘ the first French town men to enlist in the arm services’
• Heroism – Larry


  ‘ holder of the silver star act of heroism’
• Heroism – Larry


  ‘ Larry was a hero yet but he was a hero long before he went to war’
• Heroism – veterans


  ‘ no heroes in that scrapbook Francis’
• Heroism – veterans


  ‘ I want to talk about it my war and your War to Francis’
• Heroism- veterans

  ‘ we weren’t heroes we were just there’
• Heroism – Nicole


  ‘ who was I going to tell?’