"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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English Oral A2 -Enduring Love- This text belongs to the novel Enduring Love written by Ian McEwan. The extract is set at the beginning of the novel when Joe retells the events of the accident that will shape Joe and Clarissa’s lives forever. The main theme of the extract is the unexpected turns of life‚ and the binary position between order & chaos. We may relate the former theme with the way that Joe’s life changes in one minute‚ and the feeling of not being able to control the situation
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Enduring Love or Possessive Love? Enduring Love opens up with a visual opening of a freak-like accident occurring to rescue a boy from a hot air balloon. This event serves as a symbol to the righteous postmodern novel. I plan to demonstrate how McEwan presents obsession in Enduring Love for an audience of classmates that seems to be for people as a form of truth if confronted by a distressing situation. McEwan centers the book on a real mental condition called De Clerambault’s Syndrome‚ which
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In an extract from Ian McEwan’s Enduring Love’ the main character‚ Joe‚ faces many conflicts emotionally. In Joe’s mind‚ his emotions and rational thought pull him in two different directions when all he seeks is a common answer. In order to portray Joe’s emotional distress‚ Enduring Love’ is told through first person narration. Joe searches for logical explanations but the more he looks‚ the further the truth seems to be. The day after John Logan’s death‚ Joe’s conscious makes the whole event
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