1) To explain how the book would be different (because it would be) if Briony was a boy instead of a girl, I would like just to allude to three different passages of the book, the first one being the scene when she sees her sister with Robbie by the pond and she first thoughts about a wedding proposal scene (something a boy would never even imagine on thinking) and then starts creating a whole story behind what she just saw without knowing what was actually going on. So she creates for herself a horrifying perspective about Robbie, and even more, when she reads the letter she wasn't supposed to (something that probable a boy wouldn't have done, because we shouldn't forget that she did it because she was jealous of her sister's relation with Robbie, because she liked him (if Briony were a boy its highly improbable for him to like Robbie)) she convinces herself about that this guy its an actual sex maniac, and lets be honest, men are not as exaggerated as women in these kind of things. And later on, when she witness against Robbie, she's blinded by her girly-one-sided point of view so she doesn't even reconsider her statements. In a few words, the book would have been really different, and probably wouldn't even had a plot if it wasn't for Paul Marshall raping Lola.
2) No, because the main plot is the change on Briony's point of view and personality through the novel, all the war scenes about Robbie only add the context to Briony's changing on the middle-end of the book, and on the last part, we can appreciate that all these scenes are just made for helping Briony developing her last thoughts, that are her feeling of guiltiness and sorry for what she had done.
3) These 'macabre' scenes respond to all the war-suffering scenes in which the author describes the horrifying characteristics of the war, and the wounds of the injured soldiers, in order to to create a realistic context to the story, as well as as producing an effect on the reader.................................
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