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Originally Posted by Bookpossum
I see Bendrix as a mix of good and bad. As Victoria has said, we learn through Sarah's diary that he had been injured trying to protect another person from a falling wall. He is a bully in his dealings with her, but was probably bullied as a child because of his limp. He had worked as an air raid warden - possibly how he had received the injury to his shoulder.
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The way I feel about Bendrix, I think he just happened to get in the way of a falling wall and accidentally saved someone. (I'm not even sure how much I am joking when I say that.) But, in book five we have Bendrix watching the priest (while discussing whether Sarah is Catholic), and we get this paragraph:
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‘It isn’t necessary. I said one this morning.’ He [the priest] made a movement with his hands in his lap, the first break in his rigidity: it was like watching a strong wall shift and lean after a bomb had fallen. ‘I shall remember her every day in my Mass,’ he said.
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and I wondered if this observation was related to the event that gave Bendrix the scar.