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Interesting Questions, Facts and Information
- There are a total of 20 general entries.
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 Interesting Questions, Facts, and Information
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Yes. We see Lola getting married to Paul, on the day that Briony finally works up the courage to admit to Robbie and Cecilia that she had lied and is going to tell the truth to the police. We later find out that that was not what had actually happened, because Robbie and Cecilia were never reunited. We find out that Robbie and Cecilia were never reunited, when we see footage of an interview with Briony who has just announced that she is retiring from writing.
| Who dies when the water mains are bombed and fill the tunnels? | Atonement
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Cecilia. During one of the attacks on London, thousands of people take shelter in the metro tunnels because they are perfect bomb shelters. Cecilia dies in the metro tunnel when a German bomb bursts the water main, flooding the tunnels. The water kills her and all of the other Londoners who had taken refuge in there from the bombs.
| Does Robbie make it back home from the war safely? | Atonement
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No. After travelling for days, Robbie and his friend make it to the beach at Dunkirk where there are thousands of soldiers waiting to be evacuated. But Robbie doesn't make it back from the war safely he dies in Dunkirk from septicemia which he contracts from a wound on his side, on the last day of the evacuations.
| Who sees the man who rapes Lola and reports it to the police? | Atonement
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Briony. Briony sees the man who rapes Lola while they are out looking for the twins who have run away. She isn't sure who she has seen but because of the note from Robbie to Cecilia, which leads her to believe that Robbie is a sex crazed maniac, she thinks it is Robbie. She stumbles across Lola and the man raping her on the little hill by the stream where she had been playing earlier in the day.
| What does Paul show Lola, while they are in the nursery? | Atonement
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Sugar coated chocolate. Paul shows Lola this when he comes into the playroom to talk to the twins. He also tells her that the government is paying his company to make the chocolate bars so that they can be sent over with the soldiers going off to war. This is because the chocolate will not melt and spread over the rest of the food products.
| What color is the dress that Keira Knightley's character, Cecilia, wears during the dinner? | Atonement
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Green. Keira Knightley's character, Cecilia, wears an emerald green dress during the dinner. This dress has since been voted the best dress of this century, beating the famous dress Marilyn Monroe wore in "The Seven Year Itch" and the little black dress that Audrey Hepburn wore in "Breakfast at Tiffany's". Since the movie, lots of different designers have released similar, emerald green dresses.
| What are the names of Lola's two younger brothers? | Atonement
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Pierrot and Jackson. Lola, Pierrot and Jackson have come to live with Cecilia and her family for the summer, because their parents are in the process of divorcing. The three of them begin to act in a play that Briony writes at the start of the movie, but the twins run off because they want to go for a swim. We don't see the twins in the movie after they run away, but in the short time we do see them we learn that they blame Lola for forcing them to live with Briony for the summer.
| When we first see Cecilia and Robbie they are having an argument. What is this argument about? | Atonement
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Robbie has just broken an antique vase that belongs to Cecilia's family.. When we first see Robbie and Cecilia, we are seeing them through Briony's window. When we see them through the window they are having an argument because Robbie has just broken an antique vase belonging to Cecilia's family. A piece of this vase has just fallen into the fountain. Cecilia believes this antique vase is the most valuable possession of her family.
| Which part of the story did the elderly Briony admit had NOT really happened? | Atonement
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Briony going to Cecilia's flat. Briony was being interviewed about the release of her novel "Atonement". She admitted to the interviewer that this was her last novel because she was dying of vascular dementia and wanted to finish the book before she lost her memory. Briony said that although the novel was a true story, she had changed the ending to a more hopeful one. In truth, she admitted that she had been too much of a coward to go and see her sister in June 1940, and Robbie had in fact died on June 1 at Bray-Dunes of septicemia. She never set things right with Cecilia, who died in October 1940 in the Balham tube station flooding. Briony felt that by changing the story in the novel, she had given Cecilia and Robbie the happiness they had deserved, which her actions had prevented them from having.
| Where had Briony been just before she visited Cecilia's flat? | Atonement
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Paul and Lola's wedding. Briony saw newsreel footage of Paul Marshall and his fiancee, her cousin Lola, and later went to the ceremony. While listening to the minister, Briony remembered that she had seen the face of Lola's attacker, and it was Paul. Briony failed to speak up when the minister asked if anyone had just cause they could not be married, but upon seeing her afterwards, both Lola and Paul were visibly upset and hurried from the church. Afterwards, Briony went to Cecilia's flat where she found Robbie getting ready to report for duty again. She admitted to them how wrong her actions had been and apologized. Neither of them were willing to forgive Briony, but they instructed her to see a solicitor to set the record straight. Both were surprised when Briony told them Paul Marshall had been the attacker.
| Before Robbie went to France, he and Cecilia met for the first time since his arrest. What did Cecilia give him to take along? | Atonement
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Postcard. Now a nurse, Cecilia met Robbie at a tea room before he left with the British Expeditionary Force, having been offered the option of fighting or staying in prison. He expressed doubt about their future together, but Cecilia reassured him she'd wait for him. She told him about a cottage that a friend had by the coast that they could use when Robbie returned on leave. Before they parted, Cecilia gave Robbie a postcard which depicted a house on the shore. Robbie often looked at the postcard while he was in France, dreaming of when he and Cecilia could be together.
| It was during the search for the missing twins that the event which led to Briony's false accusation occurred. Who found the twins and brought them home? | Atonement
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Robbie. Briony discovered just before dinner that the twins had run away so everyone began searching the grounds. Out by herself, Briony came upon a man assaulting Lola. Lola was vague about who it was, but Briony said she saw him, she saw Robbie, and convinced Lola to say the same. After the police were called, Briony told them that she had seen Robbie attacking Lola. To back up her claim, Briony went through Cecilia's things, found the letter Robbie had sent and gave it to the police. With Cecilia being the only one at the house who believed in Robbie's innocence, they all waited for him to return. When he did, he had the twins with him, but his expression changed as he realized that something was wrong. Robbie was arrested and put in jail for the crime that he didn't commit.
| After dressing for dinner, Briony noticed something on the floor as she came downstairs. What item caught her attention? | Atonement
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Cecilia's hair clip. When Robbie arrived at the house he found out that instead of being offended by the note, Cecilia had come to realize her own feelings for Robbie. Overcome with emotion, the two expressed their love for each other in the seclusion of the library. Briony noticed the hair clip lying near the library door, then went inside where she found her sister and Robbie making love. Not understanding what was going on, Briony thought that Robbie was attacking Cecilia.
| What did Briony do with Robbie's letter to Cecilia? | Atonement
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Read it, then gave it to Cecilia. After tearing the envelope open in the hall and reading what Robbie had typed, Briony hurriedly handed the letter to her sister as she ran over to greet Leon. Cecilia read it and immediately asked if Briony had read the letter, but even without Briony's answer Cecilia knew that she had. While Briony was discussing the letter's contents with Lola a little later, the two girls concluded that Robbie was a sex maniac.
| After the vase was broken, Cecilia said, "You realize that's probably the most valuable thing we own". What was Robbie's response? | Atonement
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"Not anymore it isn't.". At the fountain, Robbie tried to help Cecilia but ended up breaking the vase. Finding no humor in Robbie's light-hearted remark, Cecilia removed her outer clothing and dove into the fountain to retrieve a piece of the vase. After she emerged from the water, Cecilia and Robbie stared at each other momentarily, becoming very aware of Cecilia's lack of attire and the attraction between them. Robbie then looked away while Cecilia put her clothing back on, grabbed the vase and walked back to the house.
| Briony wrote a play, "The Trials of Arabella", to celebrate her brother's visit. Who was to play the lead? | Atonement
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Lola. After Briony finished typing her play she spoke briefly with Robbie and told him she was going to perform it later with her cousins. During the discussion of the play with Lola and the twins, Lola begged to play Arabella, and Briony reluctantly agreed. Further discussion of the play proved frustrating for Briony as the twins quickly lost interest and wanted to go for a swim instead. Alone in the room, Briony was drawn to the window by a bee, but then saw Cecilia and Robbie out by the fountain.
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