I just started reading Atonement. Briony is an extremely intense young girl with such a strong character that it is almost overwhelming. I would not want to have to be her parents! She seems neat to an extreme, smart beyond her years, and starved for attention. Although her mother reads her new story with great interest, the fact that she is the youngest and cannot wait for her older brother to come home or her cousins to come visit in order to show them the play makes it almost seem as though she is lacking something in her childhood. Although I think its amazing that such a young girl is writing about such profound topics, it is strange that she is such an old soul in a young person's body. I love that quote on page 7 which i think perfectly describes Briony's oddness and age beyond her years. She says "beauty, she had discovered, occupied a narrow band. Ugliness, on the other hand, had infinite variation."
Did something happen to make Briony the mature adult that she is at such a young age?
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