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     • When McEwan turned eleven, he was sent away to a British boarding school while his parents remained abroad. McEwan believes that his parents lives were traumatized by their first, accidental pregnancy and that they distanced themselves from their other children to hide from the painful reality of their actions.
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   How did McEwan feel about his parents?

   • McEwan believes that his parents lives were traumatized by their first, accidental pregnancy and that they distanced themselves from their other children to hide from the painful reality of their actions. McEwan described himself as a “quiet, pale, dreamy” child, very attached to his mother, and “average in class.”

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   How does McEwan describe Jack's feelings towards his father's death?

   • The first sentence of the novel expresses Jack's feelings of reluctant guilt towards his father's death: I did not kill my father, but I sometimes think that I helped him on his way. (p.9) McEwan thus catapults the reader directly into the tormented mental world of Jack.

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   What did McEwan's father do for a living?

   • McEwan’s father was domineering and temperamental, but he loved Ian fiercely; they hunted for scorpions in the desert with a jam jar, and roughhoused in the Mediterranean. “I used to stand on his shoulders, which were very slippery because the sea would wash his Brylcreem off his hair,” he recalls.

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   Why did McEwan go to a boarding school?

   • When McEwan turned eleven, he was sent away to a British boarding school while his parents remained abroad. McEwan believes that his parents lives were traumatized by their first, accidental pregnancy and that they distanced themselves from their other children to hide from the painful reality of their actions.

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   What happened to McEwan's mother?

   • “Mother Tongue,” McEwan’s attempt to understand his mother’s “timorous” life, was published in October, 2001, when she was succumbing to dementia. It’s especially moving to read now, because he was only a few months away from a discovery that cast a new light on her clenched unhappiness.

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   What is McEwan's perspective on a child?

   • From the domestic family perspective McEwan creates the notion of dysfunction and shared mental distress as he puts each child under the unnaturally intense microscope of which Jack is the lens. When the reader steps back from the distracting emphasis of Jack's gaze it is apparent that much about him is challenging but relatively normal.

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   Feb 14, 2020 · But as his interest in literature and art grew, McEwan says he felt alienated from his parents, who had left school at 14. “That’s a terrible feeling,” he says. “You never forgive yourself.”

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   Jun 18, 2014 · McEwan believes that his parents lives were traumatized by their first, accidental pregnancy and that they distanced themselves from their other children to hide from the painful reality of their actions.

5. www.abc.net.au › news › 2022/09/14Ian McEwan speaks on turbulent childhoods and the need for ...

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   Sep 14, 2022 · SARAH FERGUSON: Before I let you go, Ian McEwan, talking about actual violence, your friend, Salman Rushdie, have you spoken to him since the attack? And how is he?

6. www.lsj.org › literature › essaysIan McEwan: The Cement Garden | London School of Journalism - LSJ

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   The first sentence of the novel expresses Jack's feelings of reluctant guilt towards his father's death: I did not kill my father, but I sometimes think that I helped him on his way. (p.9) McEwan thus catapults the reader directly into the tormented mental world of Jack.

7. www.newstatesman.com › culture › booksIan McEwan interview: the long look back - New Statesman

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   Sep 7, 2022 · McEwan brings back from his stainless steel kitchen two glasses of red wine and turns his attention back to the past. His family history, shaped by acts of abandonment, is mirrored in Lessons. McEwan’s mother Rose had two children from her previous marriage, to a serviceman killed in the Second World War.

8. www.newyorker.com › magazine › 2009/02/23Ian McEwan’s Art of Unease - The New Yorker

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   Feb 15, 2009 · The act of giving away one child, McEwan believes, set in motion a perverse pattern. When Ian was eleven, his parents enrolled him at an English boarding school. “I was sent away,” he said.

9. www.themodernnovel.org › england › mcewanMcEwan: Lessons - The Modern Novel

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   His parents thought music lessons would be good for him and so he was taught the piano by Miss Miriam Cornell. He pretended that he practised but, in fact, he did not. On one occasion, she pinched his thigh, leaving a small bruise.