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One of the lines in this song stated “As life goes on I'm starting to learn more and more about responsibility. And I realize that everything I do is affecting the people around me. So I want to take this time out to apologize”. This relates to the book because Briony is young and she realizes that by her just making the assumption that Robbie was a bad guy and hurting her sister, she eventually realizes she makes a mistake. Briony felt older because she had more responsibilities and she felt as if she knew what was best for her sister and that she had to protect her. She then later in life goes back to Robbie and her sister and tried to ask them to forgive her.

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The lyrics say “I know I played you, I know I messed up” and that is exactly how Briony feels when she makes the wrong accusation about Robbie that ends up getting him put in prison.

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Catherine Brown writes this article because of how she feels like the title of this book does not fit what the book is about. She titles her article “War and Peace” because that is what she feels like the title of Atonement should be. The book starts out in central England then jumps to a war by the second half of the book.

https://catherinebrown.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Perm-Atonement.pdf

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In this article the writer states that in the beginning of Atonement the author, Ian McEwan, didn’t really have you on edge. It was more of a “ lengthy summary of shifting impressions” and was hard to stay connected with the book. The writer then goes on to talk about the characters in the book and the main scene at the fountain and how much that scene impacted the whole book. Later he talks about how to the book jumps to talk about the war and ends with the statement that Atonement “is less about a novelist harking nostalgically back to the consoling uncertainties of the past than it is about creatively extending and hauling a defining part of the British literary tradition up to and into the 21st century”.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2001/sep/22/fiction.ianmcewan

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James Wood explains starts out by saying how good of an author Ian McEwan is then goes on to say how is books illustrate stifled fiction. He goes through the most important parts of the book like when Cecilia and Robbie were at the fountain. As well as most articles, he goes over the title of the book, Atonement and what it means as well as how it relates to the book. As well as if it is a good title for the book.

https://newrepublic.com/article/63386/atonement-ian-mcewan-fiction

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Ian McEwan says in this interview that this book and other books written by him are almost like a "novella and the novel is a reflection of midcentury, modernism and older novel writing. How we lie in order to tell the truth." In this interview as well he talks about his main character in Atonement, Briony.

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Ian McEwan was interviewed in this video on what his inspiration and reasoning were to write this book. He talks about some of his own childhood memories that he put into the book. Ian explains a lot about the main character in the book, Briony.

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In this video, a guy explains what he does not like about the book. He does not believe there is any type of Atonement through out the book. He does believe it starts out as a good book, but it gets worse towards the end.

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"One person waiting for another was like an arithmetical sum, and just as empty of emotion."

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"One person waiting for another was like an arithmetical sum, and just as empty of emotion."

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Cecilia will wait for Robbie until he gets out of prison but waiting and not being able to see or communicate with him is like an empty pit of emotion.

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 "Wasn't writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight ... of the imagination?"

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 "Wasn't writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight ... of the imagination?"

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For Briony, writing was like freedom and a get away to be able to imagine things such like her life goals. A way she feels like she is protecting her sister is the way she writes about Robbie but she later finds out that this does more harm than good.

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"It was wrong to open people's letters, but it was right ... to know everything."

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"It was wrong to open people's letters, but it was right ... to know everything."

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This was Briony's mindset when she felt like knowing everything was what was right and what would protect the ones she loved. Later did

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 "A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn, not easily mended"

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 "A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn, not easily mended"

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This quote relates to the book and what it was written all about. Briony's assumption easily tore apart her relationship with her sisters boyfriend. Her sister nor her sisters boyfriend would forgive her for what she had done. Those relationships were not easily mended back together.

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"This moment had been imagined and desired for too long, and could not measure up." 

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"This moment had been imagined and desired for too long, and could not measure up." 

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Robbie, Cecilia's boyfriend that was sent to prison due to Briony's accusation, had one thing that kept him alive in prison. That was the thought of seeing Cecilia again and this quote explains that no matter how happy he would be to get to finally see her again, it could never measure up to all the times he sat in prison thinking about her and missing her.