ba#6 mcewan's atonement

As of now, one of the main secrets that McEwan has proposed to us is who, throughout the course of the novel, will we hear their prospectives and what their legitimacy is. The story started out with many different accounts of the same day, as seen through different characters. Aside from the central characters, we don't know yet who will be a co-star or just a small character. The story, as it is going now, could go in many different directions.

This relates to Munroe's "A Real Life." In that story though we could tell whose character's eyes we were looking, it was often unclear how truthful the scene was. In "Atonement" we see that in each chapter, because it is told directly (in 3rd person) who is seeing the scene for us. Though the short story only told from one person's view, it is easy to see how the accounts might be very different had it been told from another. Also from Munro, "The Jack Randa Hotel" is similar to Atonement in the sense of not being able to gage who exactly the story will revolve around.

These questions are important to the story as it will unfold b/c it will allow us to witness the events that go on from different angles, sides, and hopefully be less bias towards certain characters, and therefore really get to know them.