Marilynne Robinsons Lila And The People Of Jerusalem: Analysis

In the short fiction “The Reverend Rebecca Esther”, Steven Allaback is weaving in a criticism of the treatment of people with mental illness as well as elitism in religion. Allaback uses secondary characters such as the owner of the restaurant Peter took Mrs. Esther to, and the Christian college students Mrs. Esther encountered in that same restaurant, further proving the notion that fiction can be a mask for social critique, and Allaback builds that critique on the way society treats Mrs. Esther.

When she is at the warehouse she experienced fury, helpless and hope. After weeks of begging and praising the bow family to take her home. She was furiously ran when she could to try and get back home yet it lead her to a place she never knew of, the warehouse. In the brothel or the warehouse she violently attack many people who tried to touch her and she “... shrieked at the full power of her lungs...”to hopefully she would be saved from this miserable place. She felt hopeless after she was taken to the attic with Hannah to stay as she was a threat to other people from her actions. She felt that she would be there forever and thought after thinking everything was terrible, she realised she need her mum and prayed she was here with her. She yelled that Granny or Judah would came and rescue

Often in novels, characters are faced with justice of some sort. The same can be said for the characters of Barbara Kingsolver’s novel, The Poisonwood Bible. Overall, the best example of this complex character can be seen in the twin Price daughter, Leah. She is the character that stands out when it comes to the injustice that occurs in the Congo. After Ruth May dies, the Price women all journey to leave the Congo.

During "After the War", Ruth and the others travel throughout Europe and across the sea in an attempt to smuggle a group of orphaned children to Palestine, where they hope to build a Jewish homeland. At the end of their journey, Ruth has not only helped in getting herself as well as a large group of children, to freedom. With the help of Saul, Zvi and many other strong characters she meets along the way ,Ruth has also gone from full of despair and anger to rediscovering hope.

In the book of Elly My True Story of the Holocaust Elly is a Jewish girl who her family is living in a little town in Romania. As Romania invades their small town and get thrown into a ghetto where there are crowded into little homes. This was the day that Elly and her family was sent to the concentration camp called Auschwitz II were her mother and brother were sent to the left and she was sent to the right were she lived she never saw her family. Elly was working for years in the camp when it was liberated in January 27, 1945 elly was sent free and wrote this book

From the time people are born to their last moments of childhood, they invest in an object of security, something to keep them safe, something to always be there. The true mark of adulthood comes from abandoning this security item to walk forward without any weight. Just like all people, Leah in Barbara Kingsolver’s “The Poisonwood Bible” was no different. Leah spent her whole life clinging on to her father, Nathan, and as a result, she was blinded to what truly mattered to her. The loving presence of a family could not be seen behind his controlling ways. Her dependence on him kept herself from realizing whom she actually cared about. Moreover, the reliance on Nathan meant her actions were truly not her own. Rather

She is upset by the loss of the day even though her mother attempts to distract her with a garden of flowering violets, her father also attempts to comfort her. Finally, she returns to sleep after dinner. Her memory is a positive memory and the motif if the violets are used to link the past and present as it will help her get through her dark times. In the visual her memory is included, and he mother confronting her is one of the main images that she remembers from this. The image of her mother comforting her is a very important one, as it establishes the role and persona of a mother at the time and how women in that era were seen as to stay home look after children and the men went out and worked to support the

God gives and He takes away, and in the book of Ruth we see God taking away Naomi’s husband and both her sons, but that is not the end of her story. The book of Ruth is a story of God providing for the widow. In Ruth, God supports Naomi by providing a loyal companion in her daughter-in-law, with substantial food, and a husband for her daughter-in-law.

The Persian Empire is arguably one of the greatest and largest empires ever in the history of the world. It was in place from approximately 550 to 334 BCE in Asia Minor and Persia. Throughout the time the empire was in place there were multiple kings that ruled it changing the cultures of the people living in the empire. The Book of Ester is a book from the Hebrew Bible written during the fourth century BCE that tells the story of a Persian king Achashvairosh. In the story information is given on how Persian Kings were able rule their vast empire for such a long period of time. The Persian Kings that ruled the Persian Empire were able to do their job successfully, deal with problems they faced, and keep their empire culturally vast because

Mona in the Promised Land tells the story of Mona Chang, a Chinese American girl living in Scarshill, as she advances through her adolescent years in her multicultural community. As a Chinese American, Mona is reminded of her Chinese heritage through her parents who reference life back in Shanghai. Even though her mother tells her that she raised Mona in a relaxed American manner, Mona believes that her mother is too overbearing and exhibits qualities of a backward mother bringing up her child in China. Because she is growing up in America, Mona believes that “being American is being what you want”, meaning that she should be allowed to choose her own identity. It is because of this desire to discover her own identity that leads Mona to take

The brilliant author, A. B. Yehoshua, tells the story of very long quest to find the identity of a deceased young woman killed as the result from a bomb’s explosion in Jerusalem, within the book, A Woman in Jerusalem. The novel initially begins at a marketplace in the beautiful city of Jerusalem. Just as soon as the story begins, the death of a women is announced due to a terrorist bombing within the marketplace. Soon after the young woman’s death, her corpse was relocated to the morgue of a local hospital. After the woman’s body had been sitting in the morgue’s storage facility for a week, not even a single person had come to claim her body or even identify whom she was. Nothing on the woman’s body

In the bible The Book of Ruth follows the story of the widowed Naomi and her two widowed daughters-in-law, Orpah and Ruth. Throughout the story, the three experience life during biblical times. Although the time frame of this particular passage of the bible is widely debated amongst scholars, most believe that it took place during the Period of the Judges. Through reading about these ordinary people, one can tell that their everyday life was generally uneventful. People often worked in fields to provide for their families and for generations to come. The women of the Book of Ruth lived simple lives, placing high value on loyalty to the family, the continuation of family lines, and marriage.

The setting of Alice Walkers short story” The Flowers” is important for us, the readers to obtain a perspective of how life was like growing up for a 10 year old African American girl by the name of Myop. The title of the story is “The Flowers.” When you think about flowers, you instantly compare them to being beautiful, pure, and innocent. The title of the “The Flowers” is a symbolism that correlates to Myop who is the protagonist of the story. Myop is just like a flower in the beginning of the story. She’s a pure and innocent child but that pure innocence changes when she discovers something that’ll change her life forever.

The book of Esther tells the faithfulness of one woman and her uncle. It is only one of two books that contain the heroism and bravery of a woman heroine. The story of Esther accomplishes two profound things, the first: “To demonstrate God’s providential care of his people, even those outside the land of Israel, and 2) to commend the observance of the feast of Purim by relating how it originated” (Breneman 289).Unlike the rest of the Bible the story of Esther does not directly state or talk about God, but instead shows God’s plans for all of our lives and how in all frightening moments of life, He remains faithful to those who trust and have faith in Him. “In spite of the omission of any name for deity, there is no other book in all the

Linda Pastan made this poem include various forms of figurative language to hide the literal message that it's trying to portray. Figurative language is using figures of speech to make the text be more powerful, persuasive, and meaningful. Figures of speech such as, similes and metaphors, go beyond the literal meanings to give the readers a new way of looking at the text. It can come in multiple ways with different literacy and rhetorical devices such as: alliteration, imageries, onomatopoeias, and etc. With the usage of the literary devices Pastan has used, it introduced the relationship between the mother and the daughter. It shows the memories of how the mother helped her daughter grow from a little girl to a young adult getting ready to go her own way in life.