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    ENDURING LOVE Ian McEwan A dictionary defines the word addictive as being: wholly devoted to something‚ a slave to another and in a state of wanting more. Ian McEwan claimed that he wanted to write an opening chapter that had the same effect as a highly addictive drug. In my opinion he has achieved in doing this. At the end of chapter one the reader is left needing more information about the characters introduced and what tragedy actually occurred. McEwan took

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    Chapter Nine is a turning point in the plot of Ian McEwan’s Enduring Love. In the former chapters‚ Joe and Clarissa witness a ballooning accident in which a man dies. This event is an emotional shock for both of them. On that day‚ they meet Jed Parry‚ a Christian fanatic. The same night‚ he phones Joe saying “I love you”‚ but Joe‚ too scared of Parry and of worrying Clarissa hangs up and says that it is a wrong number (p. 37). Few days after‚ Joe confesses about it to Clarissa‚ adding that Parry

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    1. Introduction The present thesis will analyse Ian McEwan’s late novel Enduring Love in light of the theories of postmodernism. The aim is to reveal postmodernity as the subject matter of the given novel. Enduring Love’s inherent debate over the change of the approach to science in aftermath of the demise of the pro-Enlightenment modernity will be identified. The main protagonist’s tendency to suppose an “objective” truth‚ his relentless endeavouring of rationalizing the reality and providing

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    Ian Mcewan's Enduring Love

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    affixed with the defining of love‚ writers often seek to tie opposing themes together encouraging readers to believe that ‘To love is to suffer‚ to be loved is to cause suffering’. Such suffering‚ through love‚ is presented in the three texts.‘Enduring Love’ published in 1997‚ is Ian McEwan’s novel of suffering through an “entanglement” evoked by tragedy which sees the death of John Logan. However such an entanglement stirs a “torturing” powerful obsession which threatens the love of a couple and causes

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    Introducere Ian McEwan is an English novelist and screnwriter. He was born on june 21‚1948‚ in Aldershot‚England. His parents were David McEwan and Rose Lilian Violet .His father was a working Scotsman who had worked his way up through the army to the rank of major and his mother a local woman whose housband had died in the World War II‚leaving her with two children.  McEwan spent much of his childhood in British Military Bases in England ‚ Singapore and Libya‚where his

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    Write your response to the first chapter of “Enduring Love” “The beginning is simple to mark.” – The first line of the novel is designed to hook readers and it does. The use of the word “beginning” begs the question‚ the beginning of what? Instantly capturing our interests‚ it also shows the significance of the event as coupled with the word “simple” it shows complexity surrounding this mysterious‚ forthcoming event‚ again capturing our interests‚ and it shows the narrator has replayed this event

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    Critique‚ 52:55–73‚ 2011 Copyright © Taylor & Francis Group‚ LLC ISSN: 0011-1619 print/1939-9138 online DOI: 10.1080/00111610903380055 Who Killed Robbie and Cecilia? Reading and Misreading Ian McEwan’s Atonement M ARTIN JACOBI ABSTRACT: Ian McEwan’s 2001 novel‚ Atonement‚ is seen by many as a meditation on misreading‚ and this article argues that the author not only dramatizes misreading and implicitly warns readers against misreading‚ but also induces his readers into misreading. Although

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    "The beginning is simple to mark". This is the opening sentence of Ian McEwan’s novel "Enduring Love"‚ and in this first sentence‚ the reader is unwittingly drawn into the novel. An introduction like this poses the question‚ the beginning of what? Gaining the readers curiosity and forcing them to read on. The very word "beginning" allows us an insight into the importance of this event‚ for the narrator must have analysed it many a time in order to find the moment in which it all began‚ and so

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    Atonement By Ian Mcewan

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    In Atonement‚ Ian McEwan suggests the dangers of confusing our fantasies with reality; that we have become so accustomed to choosing to see what we wish to see rather than reality and this leads to destruction in our lives. Our refusal to accept or want to see reality creates a cycle in which we become alienated from others‚ just as Briony‚ Robbie and Cecelia did. Briony lives in her stories‚ Cecelia lives in her mind‚ and Robbie lives in his memories. Eventually they each end up alone and longing

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    the interest and anticipation that will drive the reader to carry on and enjoy it. Readers expect openings to include a couple of key areas like the setting‚ the introduction of characters and interest through a form of enigma or tension. Ian McEwan’s Enduring Love both conforms and challenges what a reader would expect of an opening through opening on what seems to be a climactic point of the book. Opening with the balloon incident immediately creates tension. McEwan’s choice of opening sentence is

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