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  1. Briony Tallis. Previous Next. As a thirteen-year-old girl, Briony has two passions that could be independent of one another but instead fuse together: a need for control and a love of storytelling.

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  3. Jan 11, 2008 · Atonement: Directed by Joe Wright. With Saoirse Ronan, Ailidh Mackay, Brenda Blethyn, Julia West. Thirteen-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.

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    • Drama, Mystery, Romance
    • Joe Wright
    • 2008-01-11
  4. Briony Tallis. The protagonist of the story and thirteen years old at the beginning of the novel. Briony is a precocious and talented child, although she is also stubborn, self-centered, and arrogant. Upon spending time with her slightly older cousin, Lola, Briony longs to be more grown-up.

  5. This jealous misconception leads her to wrongly implicate Robbie in the rape of her cousin, Lola Quincey, a crime for which Robbie serves three years in prison. Later in the book, Briony becomes a nurse and works to make up for the wrongs she has committed against Robbie.

  6. Summary: Chapter One. Thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis has written a play, The Trials of Arabella, to be performed for the occasion of her brother Leon’s visit home. The play is about a woman, Arabella, who falls in love with a foreign count and, after escaping to a seaside town with him, is punished by fate when she contracts cholera.

  7. Atonement (Part 1, Chapter 3, pp39-41) Lyrics. Briony leaned back against a wall and stared unseeingly down the nursery’s length. It was a temptation for her to be magical and dramatic, and to...

  8. Briony Tallis, thirteen-year-old dreamer and interferer, is a very useful character for you. That's because when your parents tell you to clean your room you can say, "Hey—you don't want me to be like Briony, do you?

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