Blog #4 Atonement

After reading these two parts, the most distinct factor were the moods in part two. I thought McEwan did a great job at creating the feeling and sense of war in so many different perspectives; from Robbie, Mace, and Nettle to the Frenchmen and their Mother. I could really feel how much of an affect war has on its environment and the people involved. "When they shut their eyes, they saw those mutilated bodies" (McEwan 187), was a significant quote in me imagining what it was like for people who are haunted by wars that are not worth losing thousands of lives over. I already had a sense of what war was like but I think it hit home when McEwan put it in the perspective of a mother who lost her youngest son from a war, and how she felt about all soldiers, even if the soldiers were fighting for her own country.