An artistic flow of events and a powerful message that will challenge your traditional beliefs are exactly what you’ll find in the story of Eve. Eve, a novel by author William Paul Young, is a telling story about a young girl named Lilly who becomes washed ashore aboard a shipping container and found by a man known as John the Collector. Lilly is discovered to have suffered countless internal injuries, have broken bones, be partly frozen, and is ultimately just lucky to be alive. Soon after having been rescued from the scene, she is taken promptly to visit the Healers and Scholars in a near desperate effort to keep her from death. Eventually she regains consciousness, and as one would, she had a multitude of questions, but there was only one …show more content…
An intriguing aspect of this novel is how the author, Young, decided to develop and portray the characters, the main character being Lilly herself, and the side characters of John, Simon, Anita, Gerald, Letty, Eve, Adam, and Adonai. Young decides to narrate the story in a third person limited perspective only giving the reader access to the ideas and events that involve Lilly, and by doing so he cuts off the reader from knowing much of anything about the other characters involved. By the conclusion of the novel only three characters are truly revealed, such as their backgrounds, ideas, and emotions, and this is only because they are a vital facet to the plot of the narrative; the only information unveiled about the others is who they are and why they’re there. Young decided to use this technique of limited …show more content…
This emptiness allows for a clean slate of items to unfold, Lilly, since she is tremendously injured, must rely entirely on someone she has never met before in her life to take care of her, nurture her, and tell her anything they can about who she is and she must believe them because she doesn’t have any inclination otherwise. Throughout nearly the entire story she has to be told who she is and where she is and what she is there for, and it’s impossible to decipher lies from the truth. Lilly must trust immensely on the people around her for guidance on how to become the Witness of Beginnings, and she doesn’t even know what the witness is, just she is the witness and that’s that. In time, Lilly reaches a point where she has the option to trust and put her faith in what Adonai has told her, or she can defy him and take the power in her own hands; she holds the freedom to stay with love and faith, or turn to power and herself. Within this moment, Young conveys a touching message of trust; trust is what got her to that moment and what has given light to all the good that has happened to her, but it was so easy to take and rely on herself and acquire all the power. She wanted to be in control and understand why her, the entire time, but when the dream became a reality she began to question whether knowing by yourself is really that
Cara Sierra Skyes has a hard role in Perfect by Ellen Hopkins. Cara is in love with her boyfriend Sean, she describes him as fun, good-looking, adventurous, and a jock. Everyone expects the perfect girl to go out with the perfect guy. Caras mom has always taught her, appearances are everything. So, Cara held onto that. She is a pretty and popular cheerleader. Cara holds a special trait, she is actually really smart and has a scholarship lined up at Stanford. Problem is, Cara has a twin brother, Connor. Connor is super suicidal and has tried many times to kill himself, sadly one day he succeeds and leaves a girlfriend and his family behind in his high school years. So everything is definitely not the idea her parents have of “perfect”. At Least she tries. Cara is in love with her boyfriend Sean but she starts to spark an interest for a girl at the ski slopes one day and she becomes very confused. Between dealing with all her school activities, her grades, and her brother that she worries about all the time, Cara is struggling to keep her life together and be
...inds love along the way. She makes rash decisions in bad situations, faces the truth that she has been avoiding, and finds her place in the world. While her journey takes some unexpected twists, Lily learns to make the best of what she has, and go for what she wants. She learns to move on from the past, and make a brighter future. But most importantly, Lily learns to accept that life is unpredictable and that by doing her best Lily is living life the way she wants to.
The Power of an Author Authors have the ability justify the worst actions. Authors have a way of romanticizing certain situations in order to convey a specific message. A good author has power to influence the reader into believing whatever it is the author wants. When it comes to the story of Hannah Dustan, authors such as John Greenleaf Whittier have romanticized her captivity story along with the actions she took throughout her journey. Introducing a character that will be seen in the story is one of the most vital parts when creating a piece of literature.
Lily’s idea of home is having loving parent/mother figures who can help guide her in life. Because of this desire, she leaves T. Ray and begins to search for her true identity. This quest for acceptance leads her to meet the Calendar Sisters. This “home” that she finds brightly displays the ideas of identity and feminine society. Though Lily could not find these attributes with T. Ray at the peach house, she eventually learns the truth behind her identity at the pink house, where she discovers the locus of identity that resides within herself and among the feminine community there. Just like in any coming-of-age story, Lily uncovers the true meaning of womanhood and her true self, allowing her to blossom among the feminine influence that surrounds her at the pink house. Lily finds acceptance among the Daughters of Mary, highlighting the larger meaning of acceptance and identity in the novel.
She started to try and forget and just fall asleep, but her thoughts would always wander too far for her to return to her natural state of mind. She contemplated with herself, why she was running away? What she was running away from?
The point of view of the story is third person limited. The reader only knows what Carolee knows, and is only finding
Lily is finally able to let go of the burdens she holds as her trust for August grows. She is able to come clean to August about all the lies and explains the real reason her and Rosaleen are in Tiburon. As the true story of Deborah unfolds, August is able to finally understand the troubles Lily face and how depleted the young girl is. With the help of August and all of the other influential black women Lily encounters along this journey, she is finally able to release her burdens and believe in the strength she possesses within. The last scene of the novel includes this powerful imagery of Lily’s new life, “I go back to that one moment when I stood in the driveway with small rocks and clumps of dirt around my feet and looked back at the porch. And there they were. All these mothers… They are the moons shining over me” (302). It is clear Lily can now grow and develop as the young woman she has always yearned to become with these important new women in her life there to guide her and be her supporters. They have shown Lily that she needs to be her own number one provider of love and strength, but as seen in this imagery, they will always be there when she needs them. By using this technique at the end of the book, Kidd is able to wrap Lily’s
As one can see, the actions of Lizabeth can tell a lot about the author. Finally, the impact of harsh times during the depression affected Eugenia Collier considerably. Through that experience, she did grow up and made a realization that may have taken others a very long time to conceive. I did learn more about the author just by reading what she had to say through “Marigolds.” The symbolism, diction, and Lizabeth’s actions and reactions to things helped to reveal her subconscious and could make one aware of the difficulties and hardships during this era.
Instead, Janie becomes the center of attention and her hopes become the main focus. By doing this, the focus of the story changes making Janie the only focus and the inclusion of the other characters never reaches closure, making their expectati... ... middle of paper ... ... an Diego, 1 Apr. 2005. Web.
...e on her part. Throughout the story, the Mother is portrayed as the dominant figure, which resembled the amount of say that the father and children had on matters. Together, the Father, James, and David strived to maintain equality by helping with the chickens and taking care of Scott; however, despite the effort that they had put in, the Mother refused to be persuaded that Scott was of any value and therefore she felt that selling him would be most beneficial. The Mother’s persona is unsympathetic as she lacks respect and a heart towards her family members. Since the Mother never showed equality, her character had unraveled into the creation of a negative atmosphere in which her family is now cemented in. For the Father, David and James, it is only now the memories of Scott that will hold their bond together.
People are like pieces of various, mind-blowing art projects; they come in all shapes and sizes, and some are more detailed than others. Shirley Jackson’s short story, “The Possibility of Evil”, provides a specific example in one character. Miss Strangeworth is introduced, and she can be described as arrogant, outgoing, and meddlesome. Miss Strangeworth’s character can be analyzed by considering what she does, what the narrator says about her, and how other characters interact with her.
Taking place in diaries and journal entries, the reader is able to see into the minds of several different main characters. This makes most misconceptions of the reader disappear, as the audience is able to see the motives behind a character's actions. It also helps add an insight to what societal standards were in place at the time. For example, as Mina recalls Lucy’s sleepwalking incident, she is more concerned about their potentially ruined reputation than about Lucy’s wellbeing. “The town seemed dead, for not a soul did I see; I rejoiced that it was so, for I wanted no witness of Lucy’s poor condition” (Stoker 98). As Mina rejoices in the fact that nobody is out on the town to see her, Stoker reveals Mina’s main source of worry, while simultaneously divulging the societal standards for women during the Victorian Era. Seeing first person from the eyes of many strengthens the novel, and ensures that all characters are able to show their true
The beginning of the novel introduces the reader to Esther O'Malley Robertson as the last of a family of extreme women. She is sitting in her home, remembering a story that her grandmother told her a long time ago. Esther is the first character that the reader is introduced to, but we do not really understand who she is until the end of the story. Esther's main struggle is dealing with her home on Loughbreeze Beach being torn down, and trying to figure out the mysteries of her family's past.
...and realities hidden from the reader. If the reader had been aware of everything from the beginning, there would have been no point at all to the story. Carefully revealing pieces of Miss Brill's character through this point of view illustrated her own passage into a new reality. Keeping the point of view limited to Miss Brill and excluding the thoughts of the other characters kept the reader centered on Miss Brill so that the same realizations could come about simultaneously. The reader, through masterful use of point of view, was able to share a very meaningful experience with the character and go through the same steps that she did to reach the end.