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Part One: Chapter One Summary: Atonement starts off by introducing the reader to the main character, bryony Tallis who is a 13 year old ambitious and imaginative writer with dreams and visions of congruous famous one day. briony has written and prepared a play for her older brother Leon, who is returning home from London, where he lives and works, for a weekend with his family. Three cousins from the north arrive, Lola, Jackson, and Pierrot, to spend the summertime at the Tallis home while their parents (Hermione and Cecil Quincey) are supposedly attempting to work out their differences. Briony giver mother a copy of the play she has written called The Trials of Arabella. Her mother, Emily Tallis, likes the play when reading it, as does her sister Cecilia, although somewhat condescendingly. As soon as her cousins arrive, Briony begins to assign them roles and attempts to direct them in the upcoming practiceance that is to be put on for her brother the next evening (for a complete description of the play, see the bottom of page 4). Lola, ii years older than Briony, challenges the director/playwright (and manipulates her) for the lead component of Arabella in the play, which Briony finally secedes after coercing her three cousins to chance upon part.

Lola further mocks the lines in the play adding a distancing animosity amid the two female cousins and the twins pay little to no attention to Brionys direction. Collectively, this destroys Brionys vision of a spotlighted moment and perfect evening prepared for her brothers return. Analysis: The play Briony sets out to direct and perform is noted as having a high point of cheer when her mother reads it, and everything else about it would be dreams and frustrations. This is a obvious predict of the mood of self-retribution and theme of lost innocence to the book. Immediately, the notion of literary tradition is discussed, McEwan attaches fairytale and folk lore to childhood simplicity. Briony feels trapped in... If you want to get a full essay, hostel it on our website: Orderessay

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