She has decided to possibly publish her novel based on everything that has happened in her life concerning Robbie, Cecilia and others. She remarks that “No one will care what events were misrepresented to make a novel,” (McEwan 350). This remark sounds hopeless, as if to point out how pointless it is for her to attempt to atone and seek forgiveness. This remark also enhances the fact of how much her misperceptions have ruined those chances. It is likely that because the reader can never surely know what happened, the reader will be unable to differentiate between the real events and the imagined events created by Briony. Regardless of this, the reader learns from Briony’s mistakes how dangerous it is to assume rather actually