Atonement Analysis

Yeah, that's a lot of setting included right there. Luckily, everything doesn't happen everywhere at once, which would be confusing both in the book, and in real life. So, let's see where the homey...

Atonement is a sneaky ninja book. It has a complicated narrative point of view, which means it's not always clear who is speaking, or where they're coming from. And yes, Briony Tallis is the secret...

Atonement seems like a simple title. And… you know, it really is a simple title. Everything about the novel is a puzzle box, but the title means pretty much what it says. The book is about Briony...

"Dear Miss Morland, consider the dreadful nature of the suspicions you have entertained. What have you been judging from? Remember the country and the age in which we live. Remember that we are Eng...

The last three paragraphs of Atonement basically tell you that everything in the book was made up. We knew this already of course (it's a work of fiction, after all), but it's still a little bit of...

Atonement is a little more than mid-way up the mountain on the Shmoop tough-o-meter. The book was a bestseller, and it's got a lot of the things you'd expect in a bestseller—a plot that bangs alo...