Comparing Atonement And Sarah's Key

"We never know all the consequences of our acts. They reach into places we can't see. And into the future, where no one can. " This quote was from the novel Whirligig. Even though, this quote might sound sophisticated, I think this quote means that our acts can affect you in the present and the future.

One small decision can have a huge impact on your life, it depends on whether or not you make the right is the impact gone better you or break you. In

Hindsight is always 20/20. Too many times we see people fail to consider the consequences of their actions, then wish they could go back and stop themselves of ever doing what they did. We can see examples of this from Romeo, Juliet, Elaine, Holden, and others in each of their respective stories. If these characters considered either their short-term consequence, long term, or just were aware of their surroundings, they’d have lived much happier lives. Just take a second, observe what's happening, and think ahead of what might the outcome of your actions will be.

The girls are taken in by an older couple, Jules and Genevieve. While under their care, Rachel becomes severely ill and requires medical care. The doctor is a Nazi, and he realizes that Rachel escaped from the camp. He reports Rachel to the officials, causing them to taker her away from Jules and Genevieve. Although she is helpless and near death, the German guards remove her from the home, “[Sarah] heard... Rachel’s thin scream all the way from the top of the house. Rachel torn from the bed by the Germans. Rachel moaning, too feeble to fight back” (129). Rachel is not only denied the right to be cared for by the doctor, but is also mercilessly dragged away from her deathbed to die in a concentration camp, simply because she is Jewish. Having this label, in the Nazi’s minds, equates to being subhuman.

When people make choices, they consider their past experiences and base what might happen off what already has.

narrator because we only know what she wants us to know, resulting in leaving out important facts. “I did write for a while in spite of them; but is does exhaust me a good deal---having to be so sly abut it, or else meet with heavy opposition.” (Gilman, p326) She is not honest about writing with her husband, and this proves that she is more than willing to tell her story her way.

I’ll finish this essay with a quote from Aristotle. “You will never do anything

People are capable of doing crazy things! Nora, in Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, loved her husband so much that she committed forgery just for the sake of his wellbeing. Susan Glaspell’s character in Trifles, Mrs. Wright, murders her husband after she discovers that he killed the one most precious thing to her, her pet bird. It was out of love that these women committed illegal crimes. Nora wanted her husband to be healthy because she loved him and knew that without his salary coming in, their home would fall apart. In contrast, Mrs. Wright wanted her husband dead. He was responsible for taking the life of the only company she had for many years. Mrs. Wright loved her pet bird more than she

For example, Sally is trapped by her father. Her father beats her and she keeps going back to him time and time again. Until, she married at the age of thirteen. This is an escape from her dad. But, she gains a source of entrapment. Her husband has his problems “Sally says she likes being married because now she gets to buy her own things when her husband gives her money. She is happy, except sometimes her husband gets angry and once he broke the door where his foot went through, though most days he is okay. Except he won't let her talk on the telephone. And he doesn't let her look out the window(Cisneros). This shows that even though she escaped her father her new husband is still not a

In McEwan’s Atonement ventures into the lives of the Tallis sisters and the complexities that naivety and selfishness can inflict. Briony Tallis’ perjury against Robbie Turner, in her cousin Lola’s criminal rape case, disrupts the Tallis family dynamic and the budding romance between Cecelia Tallis and Robbie. Briony’s maturation and realization of her wrongdoing implores her to become a nurse during WWII. In Atonement, McEwan depicts a family in turmoil over the lies of young Briony during World War II. The imagery and symbolism portray Briony’s characterization through her attempts to serve penance for her betrayal with symbolism and imagery. Briony’s limited point of view effects the tone of the novel through an unreliable eyewitness

Doing things without thinking can lead to very bad situations that are hard to get out of. This is seen in William Shakespeare's drama Romeo and Juliet, a story of star-crossed lovers that fall in love despite the rivery of both of their parents and, Alex Flinn's novel Beastly in which Kyle Kingsbury a teenage boy who thought everything was about the looks and how he was so perfect until he turned into a beast. A common theme found in both of these stories is people who act impulsively suffer negative consequences. First of all in Shakespeare’s drama Romeo and Juliet, Friar Lawrence acts impulsively in act 4, line 95 - 100, he was impulsive because he said “take thou this vial, being then in bed and this distilling liquor drink thou off; when

The intelligent Isaac newton once declared “For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction”. Not only does this play a role in the science theories but in life theory’s as well. For every choice made in life, consequences will follow, good and bad. The Everyday choices not only impact but influence future choices and outcomes. If one becomes aware of the correlation between an action and the consequential fate, it may influence the choice to whether or not repeat the action.

This quote shows that you should never say you will never do anything by reason of years later you might do it and

She wanted to be acknowledged and felt that her condemnation of Robbie would achieve this. She never considers the possibility of role-reversal, when Robbie would have the power or redemption over her. Robbie was condemned and sent to prison. He was forced to atone by society, by being refused certain books and having his letters censored. He was only permitted his mother to visit after being diagnosed as "morbidly over-sexed" and "at risk of being inflamed".