Environmental Influence
The style of the book feels very fresh and had a sort of fantastical. As I stated in my presentation the book had a Tolkien feel to it. The way that McEwan describes the events keeps the reader wanting to know the events that are going to happen next.
The environment plays a big role on the characters. Taking note of the location of the house is another big detail. It is a big ugly house literally in the middle of nowhere. This affects a lot of the characters development in the story. Briony for example became an introverted writer keeping to her imagination as much as possible. Being secluded during her summers has limited her social skills and has made her very naïve to the world around her. She is very selfish that wants everything her way and she usually had it until her cousins came and she had to deal with the competition. Or when she sees the incident in between her sister Cecelia and Rob she lets her imagination get the better of her and she makes up the three different point of view from her on imagination instead of actually trying to find out what really happened.
Cecelia on the other hand probably had the same problem as a child. This is shown through her interactions with Robbie. She mentions how she has an awkwardness when ever she speaks with him. Even though she has an awkwardness she also handles him very harshly. I could imagine when she was younger she was also an introvert. She is a bibliophile that probably delved into books as a child and kept to herself. When she left to college she probably relished the freedom and became her own person. She started to smoke, she became messy, and she became probably even more modern because of the freedom and the education.
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