He is also twenty years old and has just returned from studying literature at Cambridge. He is the young man we follow into battle during the Second World War in the middle sections of the book, as well as the character who is falsely accused of raping Lola Quincey by Briony Tallis. When he is falsely accused of raping Briony's cousin, he is abandoned by the Tallis family and sent to prison for three years, in 1939 when Britain enters the war, Robbie has the chance to emancipate himself by fighting in France as a soldier, this he does . As the novel continues, it follows him on his front-line tour in Belgium to Dunkirk, where the rest of his army will retreat to England across the Channel. However, he is injured by flying shrapnel, and despite the vivid and happy ending that Briony gave him and Cecilia, he died from his injuries before he could return home to England. As a young girl, Briony saw Robbie as a sex maniac who couldn't be trusted. However, as she became an adult, she truly understood and understood what she witnessed between Robbie and Cecilia and, in a way, understands the severity of what her lies have caused. His way of remedying this was to construct an ending to the story where Cecilia and Robbie end up together, happy and healthy. Briony acknowledges that she is not directly to blame for their deaths, but if it weren't for her foolish and false accusations then