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This document provides background information on Julian Barnes and summarizes key events and themes in his novel The Sense of an Ending. It discusses Barnes winning the Man Booker Prize for this novel. It then summarizes several major plot points in the novel, including the protagonist Tony's school days, his affair with Veronica, her marriage, and the deaths of two of his friends which come to light later in life through letters. The document examines how memory and one's sense of history can differ from reality.
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The Sense of an Ending is narrated by Tony Webster, who recalls his school days and friendship with Adrian Finn. In his retirement, Tony looks back on his life and relationship with his ex-girlfriend Veronica. He receives a letter and documents from Veronica's mother that force him to reevaluate his memories. Tony realizes the stories we tell ourselves can falsify the past. He seeks to understand Adrian's suicide and Veronica's actions by piecing together clues from their shared history. The novel explores themes of memory, history, and how people remember and interpret the same events differently as time passes.
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- 2. ABOUT JULIAN BARNES: • Julian Barnes is an English Writer. • He was won the man Booker Prize for his Book ‘The Sense of an Ending’. • Three of his earlier books had been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. • His work... - Flaubert’s Parrot - The Only Story - The Noise of Time
- 3. • MEMORY OF SCHOOL DAY • The novel sense of an ending the first part begins in the 1960. • The novel begins with four intellectually arrogant school friends. • When they were in the last year of the school, Robson killed himself after getting a girl pregnant. • The four friends discussed the death Philosophically.
- 4. SUICIDE OF ROBSON • He was in science sixth. • Rumor spread that Robson had got this girlfriend pregnant, hanged himself in the attic, and not been found for two days. • Idea of virginity • Eros and Thanatos- Adrian connected before the days first lesson. • 'Thanatos wins again’ • “Camus said that suicide was the only true Philosophical questions.”
- 5. TONY’S AFFAIR WITH VERONICA • Veronica marry Elizabeth Ford was reading Spanish, She liked poetry father was a civil servent. • He remembered that his bookshelves were more successful with Veronica than his record collection. • He measure her personality to see books they seemed to be an organic continuation of her mind and personality. • “Poets don’t run of material the way novelist”.
- 6. BREAK UP TO TONY AND VERONICA • Veronica’s meeting with Tony’s friends. • Once time she asked tony that ‘ Do you ever think about where our relationship is heading. • He remembered the words ‘heading’, stagnating’, and ‘Peaceable’. • Event of seven bore.
- 7. LETTER FROM MRS. SARAH FORD TO TONY WEBSTER • Letter was brief, she wrote in the letter that, • “She was sorry to hear we had broken up, and sure I would find someone more suitable. But she didn’t appear to mean this in the sense that. I was a scoundrel who deserved someone of equally low moral character. Rather, she implied the opposite: that I was well out of things, and she hopped for me”. • Tomy preserved this letter for proof.
- 8. LETTER FROM ADRIAN TO TONY • In this letter Adrian said he was writing to ask his permission to go out with Veronica. • It is the suggestion of Veronica that Adrian should write this.
- 9. LETTER FROM ALEX TO TONY • The top one contained abrief note from Alex, ‘ Dear Tony’, it read, Adrian died. He killed himself. • To avoid engaging with this line of theory, I opened Alex’s second letter. • He said that Adrian had done it very efficiently, and left a full account of his reason. • “ Let’s meet an talk. Bar at the Charing X hotel? Phone me, Alex”. • In the letter he wrote that “ He cut his wrists in the bath”. • He had kiiled himself in a flat he shared with two fellow postgraduates. • ‘Do not enter- call police- Adrian’.
- 10. MARRIAGE OF TONY’ WEBSTER • He started work as a trainer in arts administration. • Then he met Margaret: they married, and three yaers latter Susie was born. • After a dozen years Margaret took up with a fellow who run a restaurant. • Suise grew up, and people started calling her Susan, when she was twenty four, he walked her up the aisle of a registere office. • Ken is a doctor: they have two kids now, a boy and a girl.
- 11. • CONCLUSION • History is also like this • Individual’s personal history may be different than the reality • One can’t trust memory • Enough documents are necessary