While perusing my old blog, I came across one of my very first book reviews, which happened to be about Atonement by Ian McEwan. I was fascinated by the immature and uncertain lines written by Past Ana. There is something wonderful about revisiting your younger self through the poor lines of a forgotten blog post, but I digress. To celebrate the young Ana, here is Present Ana’s take on the book, analyzed this time through the crimes of its characters. And once again, I wonder what Future Ana will think of Present Ana's literary crimes. Crime and Atonement — A brief analysis of transgression and punishment in Ian McEwan’s Atonement The initial transgression in Atonement, although not a crime of morality, can be deemed a "foolish" mistake, as it is described in the book. However, what renders this mistake a wrongly punished crime is that it serves as the root or justification for many of the subsequent crimes that occur throughout the novel. The moment when the mistake be
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