Lesson plan from 2010 in the Department of English - Pedagogy, Didactics, Linguistics, Language: German. Abstract: The following lesson plan will refer to the novel Atonement by Ian McEwan and the movie of the same title directed by Joe Wright. The story is about a 13-year-old girl named Briony Tallis who has a vivid fantasy and one day sees her older sister Cecilia and Robbie Turner, the son of a family servant, at the fountain in front of the house. She does not understand what is going on between Cecilia and Robbie, misinterprets the scene, and a series of misunderstandings is set in motion that causes lasting repercussions for all of them. After the fountain scene, Briony reads a letter from Robbie to Cecilia that has a sexual overtone, and so she concludes that he must be a maniac. Then she sees Robbie and Cecilia in a dark corner of the family's library having sex.