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| Question | Answer |
| Leon on heatwaves | "I love England in a heat wave. It's a different country. All the rules change." |
| Nick's narration on heatwaves | 'That anyone should care in this hear whose flushed lips he kissed, whose head made damp the pyjama pocket over his heart!' |
| Leon to Briony on heatwaves | “Have you done something bad today on account of the terrible heat? Have you broken the rules? Please tell us you have.” |
| Atonement narration on love as contextual | 'This moment had been imagined and desired for too long, and could not measure up' |
| Nick's narration on time | 'luckily the clock took this moment to tilt dangerously at the pressure of his head' |
| Briony's narration on her realisation about other people | 'a person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn, not easily mended' - ironic as the war is happening at this time |
| Fitzgerald's other titles for Gatsby | 'Trimalchio in West Egg' - slave in Roman novel who threw parties to seem rich 'Road to West Egg' - descent into new money |
| Purpose behind Eckleburg | 'evidently some wild wag of an oculist set them there to fatten his practice in the borough of Queens, and then sank down himself into eternal blindness' - ironic as it's an optician - God used to sell, corruption, immorality |
| Tension released in Atonement | 'the sandy bricks radiated the day's trapped heat' |
| Tallis family facade, very shallow | 'The island temple, built in the style of Nicholas Revett in the late 1780s, was intended as a point of interest, an eye-catching feature to enhance the pastoral ideal, and had of course no religious purpose at all |
| Gatsby denies love is contextual | "Can't repeat the past?" he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!" incredulously - disbelieving |
| Robbie's love as difficult to recreate | 'The anticipation and dread he felt at seeing her was also a kind of sensual pleasure' |
| Robbie's love keeping him alive | 'she was his reason for life, and why he must survive' |
| Robbie's love as a fever | 'There was nothing but obliterating sensation, thrilling and swelling' |
| Gatsby's materialism to impress Daisy | 'I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from his well-loved eyes' |
| Emily's unequal marriage | 'His deceit was a form of tribute to the importance of their marriage' |
| Cecilia endures unhappy family life to feel wanted | 'she simply liked to feel that she was prevented from leaving, that she was needed' |
| Fragility of family ties | 'How easily this unthinking family love was forgotten' |
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