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IAN McEWAN (1948-) - Coggle Diagram
IAN McEWAN (1948-)
WORKS
1975
First Love, Last Rites
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degenerate behaviours, shocking sides of life
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1987
The Child in time
novel, human capacity to arouse feelings
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1994
The Daydreamer
short story about today's kids, victims of violent parents, or in a violent society where there is no room for imagination
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2014
The Children Act
a boy suffering from leukemia who refuses bllod transfusion because he is a member of Jehovah's witnesses
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Atonement
PLOT
1st part: English country house, 1935. 13 y-o Briony Tallis wants to become a writer and writes about an odd incident she witnessed from her bedroom window from 3 different points of view: her sister Cecilia takes off her dress and steps into a fountain in the presence of Robbie Turner, the educated son of a family servant that wants to become a physician. He and Cecilia are in love but Briony suspects that Robbie is forcing Cecilia into doing obscene things. When her young cousin Lola is harassed in the garden, Briony accuses Robbie, out of revenge and jealousy. Robbie is imprisoned and Cecilia breaks with her family.
2nd part: Normany, May 1940. Robbie, after his prison sentence, is serving as a soldier. He is kept alive by the hope to be reunited to Cecilia, who has become a nurse. Briony, 18 y-o, realises she has made a mistake and is tormented by remorse.
3rd part: London hospital. Briony works as a trainee nurse and the hard labour is a form of atonement for her. Ending: In 1999 the aging and successful novelist Briony discovers she is developing progressive vascular dementia, but she is in peace because she has finished writing Robbie and Cecilia's story. Her atonement seems complete but then the reader discovers that Robbie died in France and Cecilia died in a bombing. Briony's happy ending was an attempted atonement.
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FILM VERSION
Atonement (2007) by Joe Wright, with Keyra Knightley and James McAvoy
Black dogs
PLOT
the middle-aged Jeremy lost his parents in a road accident when he was 8. Since then, he has tried to substitute them with his friends' parents and with his parents-in-law, June and Bernard Tremaine.
Jeremy tries to reconstruct the story of their love through their memories, included their faith in Communism and later disillusionment, and of their separation after the dogs incident.
While hiking in southern France, June is attacked by 2 huge black dogs which she perceived as the embodiment of the evil in the universe. In that moment, she discovered a sense of the divine inside her that enabled her to resist the dog.
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THEMES
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Black Dogs
the dogs Gestapo had brought to the French Village to intimidate its inhabitants, then left behind after the landing of the Allies in Normandy and ran wild
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LIFE
born in Aldershot, England, he spent his childhood at military bases in different countries with his father, an army officer
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