In the novel Atonement, McEwan shows the change of maturity and growth into adulthood and to begin a change in Briony’s’ life. Growing up, Briony has constructed a failure in rebuilding a family in an extent of breaking the Tallis’ bond, the world is built around emotional impacts and how the minds and feelings of people can begin a process of cope. Literary devices are the bond that builds the novels together in how both experience failures to communicate in the emotional impact of grief.
The novel portrays the meaning of guilt, forgiveness and atonement itself. Emily Tallis, is a distant mother and doesn’t connect with what’s going on in her children’s lives. “But her father remained in town, and her mother, when she wasn’t nurturing her …show more content…
O’Farrell takes advantage of flashbacks in the novel to show the reader the past and future of a life of grief. Just like in Atonement, the strained relationship of child and parent is relevant, and leads to a loss of a family tie. Alice steps off a train in Edinburg to meet her sisters and aunt but, quickly returns to her train after she notices something odd and peculiar. Throughout, the novel we read into how there is a bond between Alice and her sisters and a distance between Alice and her mother. Each novel explores a side of brutality in families and the corrosive effect of lies and the damage they can do. As Alice is in the coma she takes the readers into a world of images and a new life of colours and heart. Comparing Alice and Briony, they both where young and immature in life and they took themselves and the readers into their own worlds of imagery, colours and heart. Part 1 of After You’d Gone, takes the reader to believe that a foreshadow event is occurring when Beth says “What’s wrong, what’s wrong? Please don’t go. You can’t go like this.” (O’Farrell; Page 6) It brought the reader to think that the beginning of the book was written saying that Alice can’t go like this and soon after Alice, walks in front of the car and persuades the reader to believe it was suicide attempt. Most know …show more content…
Atonement and After You’d Gone use a first person narrative structure that allows the main characters to tell their stories of emotional loss and grief. McEwan gives Briony the power to tell her story, and Briony likes the idea of a world controlled by her own thoughts and imagination. However, in After You’d Gone, for Alice, lying in a coma, her situation is more personal. She may have attempted suicide, and as her family gathers to watch over her the reader gets flashbacks to her parent’s early years together, her childhood, her adolescence, and finishing with her developing a relationship with John rather than Ann. The novel is partly written in first person as Alice, who occasionally describes her blurred perception of her trapped situation, listens to her family and reflects on things that have happened. McEwan and O’Farrell give the reader the opportunity to enter two worlds in first person and causing a final impact on the views of grief. McEwan uses Briony’s first person narrative to exploit the revelation that she has written the story in an attempt to ‘atone’ for the damages she has caused and replace the falsehoods she has released. Using narrative tones gave the authors an opportunity to build a more intimate story with the reader and
The novel portrays the meaning of guilt, forgiveness and atonement itself. Emily Tallis, is a distant mother and doesn’t connect with what’s going on in her children’s lives. “But her father remained in town, and her mother, when she wasn’t nurturing her …show more content…
O’Farrell takes advantage of flashbacks in the novel to show the reader the past and future of a life of grief. Just like in Atonement, the strained relationship of child and parent is relevant, and leads to a loss of a family tie. Alice steps off a train in Edinburg to meet her sisters and aunt but, quickly returns to her train after she notices something odd and peculiar. Throughout, the novel we read into how there is a bond between Alice and her sisters and a distance between Alice and her mother. Each novel explores a side of brutality in families and the corrosive effect of lies and the damage they can do. As Alice is in the coma she takes the readers into a world of images and a new life of colours and heart. Comparing Alice and Briony, they both where young and immature in life and they took themselves and the readers into their own worlds of imagery, colours and heart. Part 1 of After You’d Gone, takes the reader to believe that a foreshadow event is occurring when Beth says “What’s wrong, what’s wrong? Please don’t go. You can’t go like this.” (O’Farrell; Page 6) It brought the reader to think that the beginning of the book was written saying that Alice can’t go like this and soon after Alice, walks in front of the car and persuades the reader to believe it was suicide attempt. Most know …show more content…
Atonement and After You’d Gone use a first person narrative structure that allows the main characters to tell their stories of emotional loss and grief. McEwan gives Briony the power to tell her story, and Briony likes the idea of a world controlled by her own thoughts and imagination. However, in After You’d Gone, for Alice, lying in a coma, her situation is more personal. She may have attempted suicide, and as her family gathers to watch over her the reader gets flashbacks to her parent’s early years together, her childhood, her adolescence, and finishing with her developing a relationship with John rather than Ann. The novel is partly written in first person as Alice, who occasionally describes her blurred perception of her trapped situation, listens to her family and reflects on things that have happened. McEwan and O’Farrell give the reader the opportunity to enter two worlds in first person and causing a final impact on the views of grief. McEwan uses Briony’s first person narrative to exploit the revelation that she has written the story in an attempt to ‘atone’ for the damages she has caused and replace the falsehoods she has released. Using narrative tones gave the authors an opportunity to build a more intimate story with the reader and