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This 6 page paper examines the sweeping changes in character throughout the novel, particularly noting the generational shifts exemplified by characterization, setting, politics, themes. Quotes cited from the text. Synopsis included. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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for Briony Tallis in Ian McEwans book, Atonement. In this book the idea of generation is treated masterfully by the shift of a characters perceptions, belief systems, and social realities.
Briony Tallis is the younger sister whose literary skills are often belittled by her older sister Cecilia. As the book opens she has created a play for her cousins
and herself to perform. The familys dynamics are at once set as the reader finds the mother to be remote and as distant as the father who seems to spend
most of his nights in London, rather than at home. As the evenings events unwind the small details and insignificant happenings of the day are spoken about, but the
undercurrent of tension is building. Later, one of the cousins is assaulted on the grounds of the house and Briony, still stinging from an insult earlier tells the authorities that
it was Robbie, their childhood friend and Celina (Brionys older sister) boyfriend. Briony witnesses her sister strip down to her undergarments and dive into a family fountain with Robbie looking
on. Not understanding what was going on between the two, she goes down to the fountain after they have left. It is at this point that she begins to glimpse
a bit of her future, and cleverly, McEwen foretells the tale. Briony had her first, weak intimation that for her now it could no longer be fairy-tale castles and
princesses, but the strangeness of the here and now, of what passed between people, the ordinary people that she knew, and what power one could have over the other, and
how easy it was to get everything wrong, completely wrong(McEwan 2001). Though she does not understand what has happened, her imagination fills in what she supposes to be
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