Sunday, October 26, 2008

Atonement

Although I truly feel no one achieved atonement in the novel "Atonement", I believe the closest person to achieving this is Briony. She never got to right what she did wrong, but the way both Robbie and Cecilia died and left Briony with all of the sorrow of what she had done might be her atonement.

I believe though, that no one truly achieved atonement. Briony was the catalyst in the "crimes" in the book, but she wasn't the only one who did wrong. Marshall and Lola had also done wrong. They knew that Robbie didn't rape Lola, yet they went along with what Briony. The only way in my opinion for them to reach atonement, would be for them to fail in their future, but obviously that doesn't happen.

I don't fully blame Briony for what Robbie and Cecilia went through, but I do not have sympathy for her. She could have easily realied earlier that she knew what she did was wrong, but she did not. She let it go too long, and it jumped up and bit her.

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

FREEEEEEEEEeeeee

I chose to write about a more broad subject than just one particular story. I don't quite understand why all of our stories have had such a negative connotation surrounding them. It seems like every story we read ends up negative in the end, or has some negative central plot. I guess this is just me being me, optimistic. I've always been an optimistic guy, and like seeing the glass half full instead of half empty. Don't get me wrong, every story can't be ra ra, yay yay, we win type of stories, but I would just like to see a little more mixture of happy stories and sad stories.

Sunday, October 5, 2008

The Enemy

As I'm sitting in a trench waiting for the Germans to attack, I panic, thinking will I ever see my family again or will I ever see my country of America again. These are the same Germans that have been killing all of my friends in my battalion. We started at a full squad of 30, and now we're down to 15. The odds of me surviving are terrible. But I have to survive. I will not die. I'm fighting for my country, my freedom, my family. Before I storm forward, I say a quick prayer "God please grant me safety". In the blink of an eye, Germans are dead, they're dead all around me.