Atonement

In the passages from Ian McEwan’s Atonement and Paul Horgan’s Mountain Standard Time a group of people form into a mob in order to target someone who they believe has wronged them. While both passages have a lot in common, there are also many differences such as the behavior of the mob and the events that lead to the scenes of violence. Mountain Standard Time is set during the First World War in New Mexico and the people accuse a man of being a German spy, eventually leading to the proposal of a…

In both Ian McEwan’s Atonement and Paul Horgan’s Mountain Standard Time there is a scene of violence. Both scenes feature hate crimes against individuals, where a group of people exert all their anger and frustration on a person. In Atonement, the scene features a soldier from the British Royal Air Force (RAF) being beaten to death by angered soldiers who experienced Dunkirk, they use the man as a punching bag, blaming him for their loss. In Mountain Standard Time, a little boy is riding his…

“Atonement” by Joe Wrights is an exploration of the sociological class structure of pre-World War II England. By this I mean that through different scenes in the movie we are able to see not only the class structure of that time period, but also how upper and lower classes interacted with each other and social expectations in the different social classes. Certain scenes that the audience could interpret in this way include Garden scene, Danny bags scene and apartment scene. Joe Wrights seems to…

Amir does not receive atonement until many years later, when he returns to Kabul to find Sohrab son of Hassan, in hopes of taking him to a safe orphanage. To do so, Amir tries to reason with Assef, now Taliban officer and takes the beating he should have taken the day Hassan was…

denied the spirit nor the power of God. Throughout the few scriptures of Mosiah, we are taught detailed information from the Law of Moses, ten commandments, and Jesus Christ’s atonement and resurrection. Abinadi prophesied that Christ is both the Father and the Son; salvation does not come through the law, but through the atonement; and having eternal life is redeemed by the Lord are the doctrines that are embedded in the scriptures. Abinadi was commanded by the Lord to go and prophesy to the…

Introduction. God is the creator of all universes and God’s nature is holy and perfect. Holy means He cannot look upon sin and God hate sin. God is allergic to sin. As the holy creator of all universes, God created man, and because of God is holy, God created man with holiness. But, man fell into sin and disappointing God. Genesis 3:6 explain how the man fell into sin, how Adam and Eve sinned by disobeying God and eat the forbidden fruit. God shows his justice and God punish them and Romans…

is commonly called the atonement. However, the doctrine which sets it forth is commonly called the doctrine of the atonement. Therefore, that doctrine is at the very heart of what is taught in the Word of God. Atonement and the Cross are the focal point of God’s atoning work of Christ’s death on the cross. In the book of (Romans 5:10 NLT), Paul wrote “when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of His son.” These words not only define the meaning of atonement; they reveal the…

Through Christ we are saved by His atonement, His redemptive works are our best exemplar to do good will. Christ discipleship and His obedience change our way to see how redemption is truly a God’s grace. It’s impossible for ordinary human being such as us became blameless, we always been sin since the fall of our first parent. None of us human ever seeks God, our acts are all worthless and it never been right (Romans 3:10-12). That’s why Christ redemptive works are our great exemplar to do…

levels in a Hero’s Journey but, it all ties up into one specific topic. One example is that these three authors all end the stage of Apotheosis and Atonement. Joseph Campbell’s Atonement with the Father and Apotheosis states that the hero faces a god or goddess who has the ultimate power over the hero’s life. David Leeming’s Ascension, Apotheosis, and Atonement state that the hero desires to receive glory and achieve the fulfillment of their story. Maureen Murdock’s Healing of the Disconnect…

However, it was a different world in the 1940s, and author Joseph Campbell published the book A Hero with A Thousand Faces in 1949. During this book, he analyzes a hero’s journey and the different stages a hero goes through. One stage is the “Atonement With the Father”. Throughout this stage Campbell gives examples of traditional gender roles in myths and stories. Gendered themes in Campbell’s writing can be applied to modern stories, and, although many modern stories have reversed gender…