Dunkirk Evacuation

1. What is happening? 
They are evacuation the Allied soldiers from the beaches and harbor of Dunkirk.

2. What ideas or feelings are being suggested? 
Confusion on the soldiers, and hope.

3. Who is the narrator? 
Ian McEwan pretending to be Briony as an old woman.

4. Who is speaking in the passage?
Robbie.


5. Who is seeing the events taking place?
Robbie.

6. What is the setting? 
Dunkirk, France, 1940.
7. What do you know about what is going on?
The Allied soldiers were ordered to evacuate and leave everything behind.

8. Do you think that the passage about the evacuation of Dunkirk would fulfill McEwan's desire to write about the war? Whose vision of the war is depicted: Robbie's, Briony's, McEwan's, or those of his sources?
I think that the passage about the evacuation is the vision of all of them. (Robbie, Briony and Ian.)