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Research AO4 quotes for Atonement
Ian McEwan
Biographical information and how it influenced him to write atonement
A brief summary of Atonement
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Brief summary

Ø The novel tells the story of Briony, a young girl and aspiring writer, and
the consequences of the discovery she makes about Robbie, a young man
destined to play a part in the Dunkirk evacuations
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Her word against the young boy eventually leads to disaster as
Robbie is sent to war and Cecelia begins to work as a nurse
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Ø He spent much of his childhood in the Far East, Germany and North
Africa, where his father, an officer in the army, was posted
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I like
precision and clarity in sentences, and I value the implied meaning, the
spring, in the space between them
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I prefer a work of fiction to be self-contained,
supported by its own internal struts and beams, resembling the world, but
somehow immune from it
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Against all this, I value a documentary
quality, and an engagement with a society and its values; I like to think
about the tension between the private worlds of individuals and the public
sphere by which they are contained
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Perhaps I can reconcile, or at least summarise, these
contradictory impulses in this way: the process of writing a novel is
educative in two senses; as the work unfolds, it teaches you its own rules, it
tells how it should be written; at the same time it is an act of discovery, in a
harsh world, of the precise extent of human worth
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Ø The brother, a bricklayer named David Sharp, was born six years earlier
than McEwan, when his mother was married to a different man
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Ø After her first husband was killed in combat, McEwan's mother married
her lover, and Ian was born a few years later
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– This could be why he gives his two main

female characters the job of nursing during the war
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He was an atheist, however, and so did not believe any other religions,
only what was right and wrong
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I grew up in a Muslim country – Libya – and have only warm
memories of a dignified, tolerant and hospitable Islamic culture
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Ø This story takes place exclusively from about 1935-1999
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Ø Ex, Briony in the war Hospital and Robbie at Dunkirk
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With Robbie fighting in the war, as described by the second
part of the novel, the lives of all members the Talis family are effected
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Atonement


Social context
Ø The novel takes place during a time when divorce was are rare thing
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This shows a little detail about the social norms of England
during this era
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Because of the societal pressures to join the war effort, along with her
family ties, Briony involves herself in the British nurse corps
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The time period ranges between 1935- 1999; between Briony's
life, ages 13- 77
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Ø World War Two began on September 1st, 1939; by this point, Robbie had
spent 3 years in prison
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On
the evening of September 3rd, Britain and France were at war with
Germany; within one week, New Zealand, Canada, Australia, and South
Africa had also joined the fight
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Ø By the end of World War Two, over 60 million people had lost their lives
and most of Europe and large parts of Asia had been destroyed from
battles
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The only thing keeping him
alive at this point in the story is his determination to see Cecila again
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