Post #3. Atonement Part #1

“She could imagine herself hurrying down now to her bedroom, to a clean block of liner paper and her marbled, Bakelite fountain pen. She could see the simple sentences, the accumulating telepathic symbols, unfurling at the nib’s end. She could write the scene three times over, from three points of view; her excitement was in the prospect of freedom, of being delivered from the cumbrous struggle between good and bad, heroes and villains.” (pg. 38)

This quote shows a lot about Briony as a genuine, creative writer/person. This quote stemming from seeing her sister, Cecilia and Robbie outside by the fountain. They are described as being in a “proposal” by Briony but Cecilia in reality just strips into her underwear after some sort of “command” from Robbie that “which Cecilia dared not disobey” and submerges herself into the pond. This sparks a creative side in Briony who in the quote above describes what she could do with the information that she was presented from that spectacle which she really knows no true details about. This shows that Briony believes in herself even though some people may not. For example, the only true appreciation she had received is from her mother. Even her cousins who are visiting struggle to find the interest in wanting to be apart of the play. That detail makes me think of like when my cousins from a different age range come over for the holidays when extended family is over and try to encourage me to watch TV shows or play games that I never would do normally.