Learner Resource: Point of view – multiple
focalizers
Focalizers
Chapter 1
Briony
Mrs Tallis briefly on page 4
zero occasionally
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
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Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Examples of Omniscient narrator / zero focalizer
Page 19
Morning sunlight, or any light, could not conceal the ugliness of the Tallis home – barely forty years
old, bright orange brick, squat, lead-paned baronial Gothic, to be condemned one day… by a young
writer of the modern school as ‘charmless to a fault’.
Page 39
Briony had her first, weak intimation that for her now it could no longer be fairy-tale castles and
princesses, but the strangeness of the here and now, of what passed between people, the ordinary
people that she knew, and what power one could have over the other, and how easy it was to get
everything wrong, completely wrong.
Page 40: It wasn’t only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and
misunderstanding; above all it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real
as you.
Page 156
Within the half hour Briony would commit her crime.
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