One secret in Atonement is what Jack Tallis is doing while he is on business trips. The narrator says that Emily is aware of some dort of foul play and that Jack knows and she knows that Jack knows, yet she is unable to ask him. It is also said that Emily does not want to know, because she does not want to mess up the life they have. She assumes that "ignorance is bliss."
Another secret in Atonement is the secret that Cecilia and Robbie are not keeping only from Emily, but also from everyone else in the novel. It is about their "encounter" in the library where Briony walked in on them, thinking that Robbie was attacking Cecilia. Both secrets are being kept because the holders of the secrets do not wish to disturb the flow of life in the tallis household.
These secrets are significant to the narrative because there is an air of mystery about Jack Tallis, from his secret and the fact that halfway through the book, we have yet to actually meet him. We have only heard stories. The secret that Cecilia and Robbie share could change the lives of Robbie and the Tallis family if it was known to everybody what went on in the Tallis' librabry right before the big family dinner.
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I definately agree with Bill on the secret of the encounter with Cecilia and Robbie when Briony walks in. It also describes at one point Briony watched as Cecilia undressed and Robbie was around as well, and Cecilia ends up jumping into the fountain and Briony does not know how to take it. Whether or not he was really attacking her or if there is a connection between the two of them. It is most defiantely kept from everyone except Cecilia and Robbie; they are the only two that really know what is going on.
I agree with what Bill said, and i also agree with Carissa. Carissa talked about the part when Briony over saw Cecilia underdressing and hopping into the fountain. Briony wanted a secret in that part of the story, it was like she was looking for one, and she even says she didn't know what to do, she didn't want to look away, it was like this was the start of all the secrets Briony would twist and come to her own, wrong, conclusions.
I thought it was interesting what Bill said about Emily thinking ignorance was better than bliss. That whole secret wasn't even really a secret, both Emily and Mr. Tallis knew that eachother knew, but refused to discuss it. Stuff like that really erks me, because i dont think ignorance is better than bliss because that "bliss" isn't truely blissful, what you're trying to ignore is always going to be in the back of h=your head.
There were so many crazy secrets in this book!
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