Essay On Atonement

Atonement:

Atonement is a book that was written in three parts, with a final note from the narrator. Part one tells the story of the Tallis Family set in 1935 in England. It starts with the young thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis, the youngest of the Tallis Family. We learn that she is a young aspiring writer when she has written a play to perform at her brother, Leon, homecoming dinner. When her cousins Lola a fifteen-year-old girl and her twin brothers Jackson and Pierrot, are staying at her house due to their parents’ divorce arrive she immediately tells them their roles. Before a proper rehearsal can occur, Briony sees an encounter with her old sister Cecilia and Robbie turner, the son of the family servant by the fountain. What

Briony opens the letter and reads it before giving it to Cecilia. In it, she sees that Robbie has perverse wishes to Cecilia. We learn that Robbie's letter was another letter he meant to destroy and he gave Briony that letter by mistake. While at dinner Briony, finds Cecilia and Robbie in the library having intercourse. Briony mistakes it as an assault toward sher sister and decides that Robbie is a crazy man. That's same night, the twins ran away causing everyone to go out and search for them at night. While going out on her own alone to search for her cousins Briony, witnesses her cousin Lola being raped. Even though Briony doesn't see the rapist face she believe it was Robbie, and accuses him to the police. Not one believes he's innocent other than Cecilia and his mother Grace. Despite their protest he is taken to jail. Part two takes place five years later. It is 1940 and Robbie joins the force to fight against the Nazis. He has served his three years in prison and is now absolving himself by serving in the army. When the war has turned worse Robbie and two corporal Mace and Nettle are trying to get to the town of Dunkirk. The three men eventually make it there which they see it is in

Part three is where we hear about Briony, who has become a training nurse in London. She let go of her dream to attend to Cambridge when she realizes that it wasn't Robbie who raped Lola. Since she is guilty for what she has done she tries to atone for her mistake. Even though she didn't attend Cambridge she still is writing. She submits a story which is rejected but that persuades her even more to improve it. During her nursing many soldiers return for Dunkirk where she sees the terrifying consequences of the war. On one of her days off, Briony goes and visits her sister Cecilia where she finds Robbie staying with her right after he has arrived from Dunkirk. She tells them she is willing to go and tell their family and court officials that the statement she gave of Lola rape was false, that Robbie didn't rape Lola. She tells them that Lola's rapist is Paul Marshall, Leo's friend. Who ironically Lola married to. Cecilia and Robbie cannot forgive what she had done since her mistake ruined their lives completely. They give Briony instructions to clear Robbie's name. Briony heads back to London agreeing to their instructions. On the last and final section of the book, it is taking place in London 1999 celebrating