July 15, 2011
Pages 226-250
After reading these couple of pages, I've notices that Mace and Nettle remind me of the twins from part one of the book- Pierrot and Jackson. It is kind of curious to me that in chapter fourteen, Robbie was the one to find the twin boys and bring them home and now he is with two soldiers trying to get home as well. I think this is foreshadowing that Robbie, Mace, and Nettle will in fact return home to England. I believe the author is trying to compare the totally different lifestyles of war and home by trying to make all the characters familiar. McEwan also compares war and home by showing how destructive both are to Robbie. Robbie can't seem to get away from both worlds and it doesn't seem like good is coming out of either. Both lifestyles are chaotic and show the reader how life was back in the years of World War II.
Hm isn't it strange that people could take "home" the place where people are suppose to feel safest and most taken care of and equate it to a war zone. How can home be like a site of conflict? Also what is the importance of the journey in this book? How is the journey fundamentally necessary?
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