Voice In Atonement
Successful writers create a voice with which we can identify.
The novel Atonement by Ian McEwan is about a girl named Briony Tallis and the false accusation she made against Robbie Turner. It then follows the consequences to all their lives that this accusation had. I partially agree with the statement ‘Successful writers create a voice with which we can identify.’ Partially, because we can’t identify with Briony after what she does, but we can identify with Robbie and Cecilia Tallis as we respond sympathetically to their suffering. And even then the text is still very successful.
The main character in this novel is thirteen year old Briony Tallis. Briony who loves to be in charge and tell people what to do, thinks she is always right. That …show more content…
Robbie is the maid’s son who has been well looked after by Jack Tallis and is Cecilia Tallis’ lover. On that hot summers night in 1940 when Robbie ‘left the house by himself, his life changed forever.’ after Briony accused Robbie of the rape and he went to jail, and then to war which ultimately lead to his death. Robbie was never apologised to or redeemed of the false accusation, therefore us as readers feel very sympathetic towards him. This is because he never got to live a proper life the way he wanted to with Cecilia. In the second part of the book, set during the war, Robbie longs for it to be over so he can be with Cecilia again. That’s all he cares about and is his only reason for living. We also identify with him because he has a hatred towards Briony, like the reader. He understands that she was a ‘thirteen year old girl’ and she didn't realise ‘the full consequences’ of her actions back then. But it doesn’t excuse the fact that even the detectives believed the statement of one girl that was unreliable as she was the only one who saw the crime being committed. We can identify with Robbie’s hatred towards …show more content…
In Part One of the book Cecilia discovers her feelings towards Robbie. So when he is taken away from her the very same night, she is devastated. As they never got to have their time together. She tells him ‘I’ll wait’ and for him to ‘come back to me’. She spends her whole life waiting for him only for them both to be killed in the war. We identify with her as the reader wanted them together and for Cecilia to get her happy ending. Ian McEwan’s purpose was to make us feel sorry for her and be sympathetic to her situation. This way our attention is always drawn to the book as we want to know what is going to happen between Cecilia and Robbie.
In conclusion, in the novel Atonement by Ian McEwan it is only partially true that successful writers create a voice with which we can identify. I think this because the main character Briony in the novel is someone with which we cannot identify, however there are other characters with which we can. And even though this is the case the piece of writing was still very
The novel Atonement by Ian McEwan is about a girl named Briony Tallis and the false accusation she made against Robbie Turner. It then follows the consequences to all their lives that this accusation had. I partially agree with the statement ‘Successful writers create a voice with which we can identify.’ Partially, because we can’t identify with Briony after what she does, but we can identify with Robbie and Cecilia Tallis as we respond sympathetically to their suffering. And even then the text is still very successful.
The main character in this novel is thirteen year old Briony Tallis. Briony who loves to be in charge and tell people what to do, thinks she is always right. That …show more content…
Robbie is the maid’s son who has been well looked after by Jack Tallis and is Cecilia Tallis’ lover. On that hot summers night in 1940 when Robbie ‘left the house by himself, his life changed forever.’ after Briony accused Robbie of the rape and he went to jail, and then to war which ultimately lead to his death. Robbie was never apologised to or redeemed of the false accusation, therefore us as readers feel very sympathetic towards him. This is because he never got to live a proper life the way he wanted to with Cecilia. In the second part of the book, set during the war, Robbie longs for it to be over so he can be with Cecilia again. That’s all he cares about and is his only reason for living. We also identify with him because he has a hatred towards Briony, like the reader. He understands that she was a ‘thirteen year old girl’ and she didn't realise ‘the full consequences’ of her actions back then. But it doesn’t excuse the fact that even the detectives believed the statement of one girl that was unreliable as she was the only one who saw the crime being committed. We can identify with Robbie’s hatred towards …show more content…
In Part One of the book Cecilia discovers her feelings towards Robbie. So when he is taken away from her the very same night, she is devastated. As they never got to have their time together. She tells him ‘I’ll wait’ and for him to ‘come back to me’. She spends her whole life waiting for him only for them both to be killed in the war. We identify with her as the reader wanted them together and for Cecilia to get her happy ending. Ian McEwan’s purpose was to make us feel sorry for her and be sympathetic to her situation. This way our attention is always drawn to the book as we want to know what is going to happen between Cecilia and Robbie.
In conclusion, in the novel Atonement by Ian McEwan it is only partially true that successful writers create a voice with which we can identify. I think this because the main character Briony in the novel is someone with which we cannot identify, however there are other characters with which we can. And even though this is the case the piece of writing was still very