Summary week 19

Ian Mc'Ewan's "Atonement"
3/9/2012-7/9/2012
This week we discuss about the film "Atonement". We watched the first half of the film.
Task:

1. What sort of social and cultural setting does the Tallis House create? What emotions and impulses are being acted upon or repressed by its inhabitants?

We can see a very accommodative family, they have some things that prove their economic position. Other things about the house like the relations between people are evidence of the social and cultural setting, as Cecile can't reveal her relation with Robbie, because she is rich and Robbie is the gardener.

2. A passion for order, a lively imagination, and a desire for attention seem to be Briony's strongest traits. In what ways is she still a child? Is her narcissism - her inability to see things from any point of view but her own - unusual in a thirteen-year-old? 

Briony is still a child in some aspects, like been very curious about some events that are not of her incumbency. She is very immature and a liar. She create stories based in her points of view. She only believe what she sees. Her narcissism inhabitable her to comprehend the story for any point of view but her own.

3. Why does Briony stick to her "version of the story" with such unwavering commitment? Does she act entirely in error in a situation she is not old enough to understand, or does she act, in part, on an impulse of malice, revenge, or self-importance? 

Because there are some feelings hidden or related, she feels anger because Robbie doesn't choose her over her sister. She acts in a very immature way and with malice, because of what she felt.

4. As she grows older, Briony develops the empathy to realise what she has done to Cecilia and Robbie. How and why do you think she does this?
Because she realise she acted very wrong, very immature, and now she feels guilty and wnats to change what he has done in the past.