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How is the character of Nicole Renard important to the novel as a whole?

Nicole is important to the novel because she brings out most of the themes in
the novel
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The first theme that Nicole brings out is love when Francis states that Nicole
‘made my life there complete
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She is also Francis’ childhood love and friend and described as
resembling a saint
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The second theme that she brings out is war when she and Francis discuss
what they want to do in the near future, Francis wants to ‘read every book in
the Monument Public Library’ and Nicole wants to ‘maybe become a nurse
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It also shows how the war is the focus of their career
ambitions, Francis goes to fight, and Nicole might become a nurse
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This
implies that they must be quite young as they are treating war a sort of match
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This implies that she
feels nervous and apprehensive when she is alone
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This
is important because the trust is broken with Larry for his assault and Francis
for not doing anything, Nicole’s innocence is lost because of the betrayal that
she thinks that men will be nice and friendly
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She did not want Francis to leave her alone, but he did because Larry
told him to
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When Nicole sees Francis waiting
outside in the dark her ‘eyes flashed black with anger,’ this is because she is
filled with the pain and betrayal of Francis not doing anything to stop Larry
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Four days after Nicole’s assault, Francis goes up to her house and tries to talk
to her, but she tells him to ‘Just go away
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This also brings out
the themes of despair and guilt that Francis feels as he goes to commit suicide
by jumping ‘to his death from the steeple of St
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So instead, he alters his birth
certificate and becomes ‘a soldier in the United States Army
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It is only after three years and moving to a different location that Nicole really
starts to recover
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She realises that Francis ‘weren’t to blame’ and uses his visit
to forgive him
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This illustrates Nicole as trying to make herself look less feminine,
attractive, and so less of an easy target
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’ So they can both
move on
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