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1
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Lola had came to the nursery that morning in the guise of the adult she considered herself at heart to be.

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Other tokens of maturity

2
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Freckled wrist

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The silence in the house was complete - no voices or footfalls downstairs, no murmurs

3
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She thought how she should take more care of her appearance… it was childish not too

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Dust from along the skirting board had dirtied her hands and the back of her dress. Away in her thoughts, she wiped her palms down her front

4
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The sequence was illogical- the drowning scene, followed by a revive, should have preceded the marriage proposal.

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She accepted that she did not understand, and that she must simply watch.

5
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What power one could have over the other, and how easy it was to get everything wrong, completely wrong.b

It’s not just fairytales anymore

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It was confusion and misunderstanding above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you.

6
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What POV?

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Brionies

Bruonys acxounr of what she sees at fountain

7
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Danny hardman as predator

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“Danny hardman watching from the doorway. He had to be asked to leave”

35

8
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Brionys fairy tale writing

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Here we have evidence of brionys imagination and her fairy tale writing

She views the situation initially as a “proposal of marriage”
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9
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Briony mis interprets sitauation

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“What stranger power did he have over her. Blackmail? Threats?”

10
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Plunged into adult life

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“Across the years to adult behaviour, to rites and conventions she knew nothing about, as yet”

39

Her down fall - child

11
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Crimes against reader

Ironic

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“She could write the scene 3 times over, from 3 points of view”

12
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Truth didn’t exist

No real truth as exists differently In people’s mind

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“The truth has become as ghostly as invention “

13
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How is she child like

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Wipes dirty hands on dres

Plays with finger

Fairy tale writing