The Broken Vase

Adapted from Ian McEwan’s novel Atonement. In 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis (Saoirise Ronan) changes the lives of her sister Cecilia (Keira Knightley) and lover Robbie Tuner (James McAvoy). She accuses Robbie of a crime he didn’t commit, which has damaging consequences and guilt which affects Briony’s entire life. Cinematography is implemented in a variety of different ways to convey Briony’s character. Even before the introduction of Briony, an overview of her bedroom and of the dollhouse

earth like a broken vase of red flowers” (Hurst) The simile that the author uses shows two motifs that are important to the story. One of the first of terms is nature. It shows how this Scarlet Ibis who driven many miles from its home ends up dying. This is like how in the end of the story, nature ends up separating the two brothers and killing Doodle in the process. Also, the quote touches on another element that is explored quit heavily in the story, death. The line like a broken vase of red flowers

Corinth, it was obvious it was influenced greatly due to the cultural interactions between the Aegean and the eastern Mediterranean regions during the eighth and seventh centuries BCE. The vase has feral goats, panthers, creatures, and oriental styled floral motifs on the body and shoulder of the vase. This style of vase is known as Oinochoe in Greek it is split up into two words "oinos" meaning wine, and "cheo" meaning I pour2. These types of vessels are usually single-handled, and usually taller than

A Pair of Tickets was written by Amy Tan and can be interpreted as an extension of film, The Joy Luck Club. The themes of misplaced identities, strength, and hopefulness are similar in details, furthermore, both are set in America and China. While the film offers a closer look into the backstory of the main characters—A Pair of Tickets expound on the storyline. Together the stories permit the protagonist to be defined as the “good sister “as she is continually confronted with external and internal

The novel Atonement tells the story of a woman desperately trying to make for her past mistakes. The story starts off in the world war two period with the three main characters, Briony, Robbie and Cecelia, as children and young adults. Robbie comes from the poor Turner Family, while Briony and Cecilia are sisters in the powerful and wealthy Tallis Family. After observing a set of peculiar and awkward encounters between Robbie and Cecilia, Briony wrongly assumes Robbie as an evil character. After

reflections. Check out the Journal Entry sentence starters in the Appendix if you think they might be useful for your students. STEM EXTENSION Part of the beauty of Greek pottery is its symmetry. Because the paper was folded in half, both sides of the vase are mirrored versions of the same shape. What other man-made and natural shapes are symmetrical? If your students created Traveling Artist Journals, include drawings of symmetrical objects, making sure to indicate their lines of symmetry, in today’s

down” and “[laid] on the earth like a broken vase of red flowers” (321). Doodle sees the “great big red bird” in the yard which is how the scarlet ibis is described before they know the type of bird. The bird died as it “tumbled down” the tree and hit the ground. The ibis is compared to a “broken vase of red flowers” when it is lying on the ground dead. This is another connection to the color red because of red flowers. The broken red vase is symbolic of the broken ibis and the red flower are the ibis

The word atonement means "reparation for an offense or injury" (Merriam Webster Dictionary). This word is the title of Ian McEwan's best known novel, Atonement. This novel is quite literally, "a story of sin and atonement" (Merriam Webster Dictionary). Set during WWII, Atonement follows the life of main protagonist Briony. The novel begins when Briony is thirteen years old and witnesses a flirtation between her older sister Cecilia, and son of a household servant, Robbie Turner. Briony's young mind

description of the scarlet ibis is perhaps the most meaningful use of imagery in his short story. Unfortunately, the bird dies right in front of the narrator, Doodle, and their parents. Yet, “...death did not mar its grace, for it lay on the earth like a broken vase of red flowers, and we stood around it, awed by its exotic beauty” (Hurst 5). At the end of the story, the narrator leaves Doodle all on his own in the pouring rain and Doodle

I was the one who broke the vase, it was my fault, he shouldn’t have had to suffer for my actions. As a result, my parents were absolutely furious. Not so much because I had broken the vase, but because I blamed my brother for it. Even though confessing was hard to do, I knew it had to be done in order to gain the trust from my siblings and myself, to have my