Atonement

I think everyone is searching for atonement in this book. Of course Brioney is the main character searching for atonement for her "crime." In order to try to gain this atonement she writes a story with a different ending from real life. The fake ending is Robbie and Cecilia end up together and in love, and there is a chance that both Robbie and Cecilia will forgive Brioney. This story Brioney made up is her only source of solace for wrongly accusing Robbie of raping Lola. I do feel a little bad for Brioney at the end because I think she does feel bad for what she did, but a the same time she should have tried really hard to make everything right, rather than just writing a story to make herself feel better. Robbie and Cecilia are associated with atonement because they would be the ones forgiving Brioney for what she did. Also, there is WWII going on, and I'm sure that there are people seeking atonement for the people they may have killed in the war.