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1、,ATONEMENT,-by Ian McEwan,08英语2班 张丽梅 唐钊霜 牙美莹 徐润桃 吴蝉栖,.About The Author.Summary of Atonement.Character analysis.The relationship with Bible.Guidance to reading.The film Atonement,About The Author,Name:Ian Russell McEwanBorn:21 June 1948(age62)Occupation:Author,screenwriterNationality:BritishCareer Pe

2、riod:1975 presentGenres流派:Recent history,McEwan is one of Britains most highly regarded writers.In 2008,The Times named him the list of“The 50 greatest British writers since 1945”.McEwan has been nominated for the Man Booker prize six times to date.He was drew comparisons to British romantic writers

3、 like Jane Austen and Emily Bronte,but Ians subject matter is darker than those novels.He is good at using sharp and smooth style of writing to describe the fear and uneasy in the contemporary society,discuss the problems of violence,death and sex.Many of the works has called“black comedy”黑色喜剧,Novel

4、s*First Love,Last Rites先爱后礼 1975*The Cement Garden水泥花园(1978)*The Comfort of Strangers陌生人的慰藉(1981)*The Child in Time时间中的孩子(1987)*Enduring Love爱无可忍(1997)*Amsterdan阿姆斯特丹(1998)*Atonement赎罪(2001)*Saturday星期六(2005)*On Chesil Beach 切西尔海滩(2007)*Solar 阳光(2010),Some famous work,Summary of Atonement,Part 1,In

5、the summer of 1935,thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis is already an ambitious writer.Brionys sister,Cecilia Tallis,has returned home from college.She is trying to show her confused feelings towards the charlady(打工女佣)s son and her childhood friend,Robbie Turner.After Briony witnessed the ensuing moment

6、of sexual tension from an upstairs bedroom and is confused as to its meaning.Robbie wants to write a letter to Cecilia to apologise for his behaviour at the fountain.He indicates that he also feels awkward around her,Although he then writes another version of it,it is the first that is accidentally

7、delivered to Cecilia via Briony,Briony is then convinced that Robbie is a“maniac“(变态狂)and that she must protect her sister Cecilia from him.Upon reading Robbies letter,Cecilia realises her love for Robbie,and they end up making love in the library.Briony interrupts them,and interprets their lovemaki

8、ng as a sexual assault upon her sister.During dinner,Brionys cousin Lola is missing.It is a conincidence that Briony comes across Lola being raped by an unknown attacker.Briony convinces herself that she saw Robbie it fits perfectly in her picture of him as a maniac.The police arrive to investigate,

9、and when Robbie arrives with the rescued twins,he is arrested solely on the basis of Brionys testimony.,Part 2,The Second World War has started and Robbie has spent three years in prison.He is released on the condition of enlistment in the army.Cecilia has become a nurse and has cut off all contact

10、with her family.Robbie and Cecilia have only been in contact by letter.In France,the war is going badly and the army is retreating to Dunkirk(Dunkirk evacuation敦刻尔克大撤退).At the end,Robbie falls asleep in Dunkirk,one day before the war.,Part 3,Briony has refused her place at Cambridge,and instead is a

11、 trainee nurse in London.She has realized the full extent of her crime stating a false testimony and more importantly the impact it had and now remembers it was Paul Marshall,Leons friend,who she saw raping Lola.Briony attends the wedding of her cousin Lola and Paul Marshall before finally visiting

12、Cecilia.She promises them to begin the legal procedures法定程序 needed to exonerate使免罪 Robbie,even though Paul Marshall will never be held responsible for his crime because of his marriage to Lola,his victim.,Part 4,The fourth section,titled London 1999,It is revealed that Briony is the author of the pr

13、eceding sections of the novel.Although Cecilia and Robbie are reunited in Brionys novel,they were never reunited in reality:Robbie Turner died of his injury on the beaches of Dunkirk,and Cecilia was killed by the bomb,Conclusion&Theme,The conclusion that Briony reaches is that an author cannot achie

14、ve atonement through a novel:the author plays the role of God in her novel,she determines her characters fates and therefore can alter them as she likes.But above all,she wanted to give Robbie and Cecilia their happiness by being together.Since they could not have the time together they so much long

15、ed for in reality,Briony wanted to give it to them at least in her novel in order to atonement.,Character analysis,Briony Tallis an aspiring writer.She is a thirteen year old at the beginning of the novel and takes part in sending Robbie Turner to jail after she finds Robbie and Cecilia making love

16、in the library.Cecilia Tallis Brionys elder sister.She fallen in love with her childhood companion,Robbie Turner.Upset over the loss of her love,to jail and war,she has almost no contact with her family again and she is the tragic roleRobbie Turneris the son of Cecilias maid,who having grown up with

17、 Briony and Cecilia,they fall in love but arrested by misunderstand of Briony.Lolais a fifteen year old girl who is Briony,Cecilias cousin.Paul Marshall A friend of Leons,who rapes Lola and some years later,marries her.,The born of human is a sin,men live in order to pay back his whole lifes debts,a

18、nd atone for his crimes.,The relationship with Bible,Generally speaking,Atonement in the Bible is to clear away their guilt by some special ways,in order to gain liberation of physical or mental and free themselves.Whole story-The last supperBriony-Judas犹大Cecilia-JusesThe scene of Dunkirk evacuation

19、-Noahs ark诺亚方舟The 13th Bed-The 13th seat of Judas,Guidance to reading,The book has the many layers of interpretation that it offers it is possible to look deeper and deeper at the metaphors and structures that author uses,but the story itself is fairly straightforward.If you start reading it and hav

20、e trouble following,try first reading a plot synopsis(剧情简介),so you dont have to think too much about the plot and can just enjoy the writing.Possible difficulties with the writing include the use of occasional flash-forwards(提前叙述未来事件)and flashbacks(倒叙),and the sometimes overly descriptive writing.,The film Atonement,Director:Joe WrightCAST:Keira Knightley.Cecilia Tallis James McAvoy.Robbie Turner,I gave them happiness,but I was not so self-serving as to let them forgive me.,-by Briony Tallis,