Briony Tallis: Summary And Analysis

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Chapter one is written in third person omniscient, though a majority of it is from the point of view of Briony Tallis. However, there is a small portion in the second paragraph of the book, where the point of view briefly switches to that of Emily Tallis, Briony’s mother. We get to see an event from her perspective, and we know what she is thinking and feeling at that time. The point of view does shift from third person omniscient to third person universal when the narrator reveals something unknown to any of the characters at this point in the story; a bit of information that will be realized in the future. The first sentence of the third paragraph of the book says, “Briony was hardly to know it then, but this was the project’s highest point

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