Atonement is to compensate amend or satisfy a wrong Briony is the one responsible for the wrong act that needs atoning A lot was running through this thirteen year old mind before setting out with this act Firstly she witnessed what seemed to her as sexual apprehension between her sister Cecilia and Robbie at a water fountain outside her window After seeing her sister stripped down to her underwear she misunderstood this as aggression on Robbies part As a natural human being one feels somewhat
Reader Response Paul Marshall Gap The Ian McEwing novel Atonement is a masterful work filled with numerous richly detailed characters For me the character of Paul Marshall piqued my interest because I did not know how he was going to fit into the plot of the story My expectations for his character were the he would be a benign character written to give depth to a more central character Celia At first this assumption seemed to hold true but then I read about Pauls dream and everything starts to
McEwans main character in Atonement Briony Tallis was only 13 when she sent an innocent man to jail Robbie Turner was convicted of raping 15 year old Lola Quincy He was sentenced on Brionys accusations alone there was no proof McEwan wrote Briony as a character with annoying personality traits to show she was the bad guy in the story Briony aspired to be a writer but later gave this up to follow in her sisters footsteps and become a nurse Briony did this to escape her family and spend her time
Assignment 4 Final Essay The narrative structure of Atonement is a complex but significant feature of the novel and it does a great job of reflecting Brionys attempt to make amends for her crime through her writing of fiction By writing her novel of fiction Briony endevours to re write history by changing the outcome of real life events and creating her own ending Her writing of fiction is a confession of her crimes against Cecilia and Robbie Her use of multiple and variable focalisation is an