Can someone please help me write an essay about the book Atonement?
This is a difficult one! Maybe something along these lines; ” ‘Atonement’ is a novel, of a family, of love and war set in the bucolic Surrey countryside of the 1930s, early wartime London and the tragedy of the retreat of the British army to Dunkirk, with a final resolution by a dying woman in 1990s London. A doomed love affair, the bloodiness of war would be themes in themselves but actually McEwan uses the theme of miscommunication to carry out the entire plot of his novel. This is apparent from the very beginning as although the characters are finely drawn the verbal relationships between them are often fraught with tension and uncertainty , a disconnect presaging the underlying miscomminication theme ” If it is of any use. do with it what you will. I have lent my copy of the book to a friend so check and correct the ‘1990s.’ if you use it. With no book, I can only recall the basic fountain scene and the only point I can offer is it highlights Briony’s attemps to find drama in real
