Redemption, a Literary Device: Hey Nostradamus! Response Essay

Reparation is defined as the making of amends for a wrong one has done, by paying money to or otherwise helping those who have been wronged.

Marriage is a full-time job on its own and people should communicate with each other in order to have a healthy marriage for them to love and appreciate each other so they can grow old together. Most of us know by now that the fairy tale happily ever after stories are full of holes. Carver emphasizes that when there is no communication in the marriage the wife starts to feel unhappy and frustrated with him. The wife’s attitude with her husband suggests that the marriage doesn’t seem to be working for her. Carver states, “My wife finally took her eyes off the blind man and looked at me. I had the feeling she didn’t like what she saw. I shrugged (38). ” There was unhappiness in the marriage and the narrator and his wife didn’t seem to get along. In other words the

The people within “Stanley Williams” and “A Retrieved Reformation” prover that person’s past actions make them who they are.

Redemption is the quest towards being saved or the regaining of possession of one's life; regaining control (Dictionary.com). In Richard Wagamese’ novel Indian Horse, the protagonist Saul Indian Horse suffers a great deal of trauma throughout his childhood, from his parents abandonment to his time at St. Jerome’s Residential School. This physical and emotional abuse that Saul experiences at the residential school has severe long term effects and overall destroys his childhood innocence. His childhood and his identity were taken away during his time at the residential school. The novel as a whole follows Saul’s journey towards redeeming and recognizing his loss of innocence and eventually achieving this redemption at his own speed. Saul as

a bigot and a loner, insensitive and intolerant, and that their marriage is a strained one"

Many classic story arcs employ what, in ancient Greek dramas, are called instances of “deus ex machina,” or ‘god from the machine.’ In these stories, an unforeseen factor arrives and offers an apparent solution to what would otherwise be an insoluble problem. Toward the end of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, the Puritan minister Dimmesdale seems to find such a resolution for the inner torment he has imposed on himself in atonement for his affair with Hester. While Dimmesdale’s emotions escalate toward rapture at the suggestion of leaving his life of outward piety and private shame behind, he remains constrained by his past, both his moral foundation and the sin for which he is yet to take

O’Connor takes her main characters through an epiphany in which therefore helps the characters to become aware of their own ignorance. The characters eventually gained knowledge or better yet became self-aware of their attitudes towards others through some form of an unexpected tragedy. O’Connor wants her readers to see how no matter how much you try to cover or justify your ignorant ways whether it be through grace, judgment is still imminent. “In A Good Man is Hard to Find”, O’Connor reveals in this story both grace, redemption and pride. The

Jason’s innate desire for self-fulfillment included leaving his wife and children to marry the princess so he could be ranked higher. After the father realized his doings and how it affected his life from there on out he tried to fix it. Time was no longer on his side medea already plotted the revenge plan. Depression and madness struck jason.

By definition, redemption is “an act of redeeming or atoning for a fault or mistake. ”(dictionary.reference.com). It’s also defined as “deliverance; rescue”(dictionary.reference.com). It’s a rescue from evils, similar to reconciliation in a church, which is the overall forgiveness of sin.

There is so many bad things that happen in our world every single day that the best way for people to fix their wrongs is with redemption. In the Movie John Q. and the book A Long way Gone both of the main characters us redemption to fix their wrongs and live a better life. When you are trying to right a wrong redemption is always the best option.

Modern literature is known for questioning society and its various conventions. One question that these works often ask is, “What is real?” Some modern authors explore this question by placing their characters within self-constructed illusions that are later shattered by the introduction of reality. Marriages are frequently at the center of this theme, with one spouse crafting an illusory impression of the other. Modern literature demonstrates that a marriage built upon illusion will falter when exposed to reality.

This is the ultimate goal in the life of a Christian: to be redeemed by the Father for the wayward life lived as a human, who could never hope to prevail without it. Richter explains that the word redemption was actually adopted from “…the laws and mores of Israel’s patriarchal, tribal culture” (40). She goes on to reference several popular stories from the Old Testament, in order to allow the reader to fully grasp the concept of redemption as it was applied in Old Testament text. The following are two examples:

Though Jason knows his children will leave him, he still makes sure he provides them with a little assurance so they do not initially suffer after they leave him.

The Book of Revelation and its fantastic images and gory details has captivated people for centuries. Some have deemed the work of John of Patmos as prophecy, arguing that after its completion it fulfilled historical events or predicted events yet to come. Others view his work as simply another religious prophet’s patriarchal view of “right” behavior for women as it draws a defining line casting women into one of two groups: pure or sexually immoral. And still others proclaim Revelations to be purely “anti-Roman propaganda” as John begins a two point attack against Rome and God’s faithful people who accommodate them, “accomplices in evil”. These points have their merits; however, each view runs the risk of “domesticating” Revelation to the point that it no longer holds positive religious meaning.

    "You keep lying!" screamed Raskolnikov, no longer able to restrain himself. "You're lying, you damned clown!" And he flung himself on Porfiry, who retired to the doorway, but without a trace of panic. "I understand everything, everything!" He approached Porfiry. "You're lying and taunting me so Ill give myself away-" "You can't give yourself away any more than you have already, Rodion Romanovich, old man. Why, you've gone into a state. Don't shout, I'll call my men, sir!" (Dostoyevsky, 34)