“Something the Lord Made” offers a wonderful characterization. Dr. Blalock tries to do as much for Vivien as he can, including raising Vivian’s salary and insisting that Thomas assist him with the first Blue Baby surgery in defiance of custom and Jim Crow. He shows his unalloyed respect to Vivian, praising the results of Thomas' surgical skill as being "like something the Lord made". However, he never expresses his gratitude to Vivian in public nor offers financial support to Vivian. Most of the time, especially after the he managed to implement the very first heart surgery procedure in saving the "blue babies", he simply succumbed to passive racism for its political benefits. As Dr. Blalock says when Vivian comes back to work, “I’m still
the self-righteous bustard”, and he never changes. In the end of the film, he says to Vivian:” They say you haven't lived unless you have a lot to regret. I regret... I have some regrets. But I think we should remember not what we lost, but what we've done.” Throughout the film, he never apologizes to Vivian despite feeling regret. This imperfection of humanity makes the character vivid and real. Besides, in the film, Vivian has to choose from his freedom from patronage by Dr. Blalock and his accomplishments. Should he forfeit his pride for the joy of good work? Is he supposed to be grateful for Dr. Blalock just because Dr. Blalock doesn't run from him in horror? These questions are difficult to answer, which made this movie interesting. “Something the Lord Made” is rated G (General audience). It includes bloody surgical scenes and one use of the f-word. Something the Lord Made Directed by Joseph Sargent; Screenplay by Peter Silverman and Robert Caswell; director of photography, Donald M.Morgan; edited by Michael Brown; music by Christopher Young; production designer, Vincent Peranio; produced by Robert W. Cort, Mike Drake, Eric Hetzel, Julian Krainin, David Madden and Irving Sorkin; released by Home Box Office. Running time: 110 minutes. This film is rated G.
Mary has never been sick since she married Elton causing her family to disowned her and “she and Elton had quarreled the night before” (65). Mary’s husband is off at somebody else’s farm for the day, far from her and at home Mary is sick, alone, and miserable--her mood reflecting the weather. Berry tells us about their neighborhood of six small farms working together in fellowship and genuine camaraderie. Berry builds a setting in which Mary is happy and feels a sense of belonging which he juxtaposes with an insecurity wrought from sickness and doubt. Mary describes herself and Elton as each other’s half and even in quarrels, their halves yearned towards each other burning to be whole. Berry again juxtaposes, “their wholeness came upon them in a rush of light, around them and within them, so that she felt they must be shining in the dark. But now that wholeness was not imaginable; she felt herself without counterpart, a mere fragment of something unknown, dark and broken off” (79). There is a noticeable shift in Mary’s normal attitude as a result of her sickness and this is emphasized the emotional setting. In the physical setting, Berry uses the stove and the fire to limn her emotional setting, as she goes to bed the fire is burning low but she doesn’t have the energy to bring herself to rebuild the fire. When Mary wakes, Josie Tom has rebuilt the
The natural development in her fetus is comes to an end, but the creation in her mind on how her daughter will become bring many images and possibilities. These two lines is distinctive to the first half of the poem. The first half was contextualizing the natural creation of a child in the fetus. Lorde goes further in the following two lines implicating the creation of the speaker’s child by giving the child the opportunity to
Conflicts within the heart can be seen again with Baby, additional to her loss of innocence. She is in an environment hungry for fatherly and motherly figures; Baby is lacking the stability and support that is crucial in a healthy development. Jules is never physically there for Baby, allowing her to go through several foster homes. She admits that Jules is always “gone longer that he said he would be… when a parent splits on you once, they are guaranteed to do it again” (58). Jules is blindly removing himself from Baby’s life and Baby cannot take it anymore. She notices that after Jules went to rehab he “got the unfortunate idea that I could handle myself without him” (52). She is deprived from the closest form of love she can receive and even that is impossible to obtain. Because Jules is hardly ever around, Baby has to learn how to survive into society on her own, using the morals she knows by watching Jules, like Jules’ remedy to life, separating from feeling. Jules and Baby’s mother had Baby at fifteen, and soon after, Baby’s mother passed away. Here again, the most important love, a motherly love, is impossible for Baby to get. It appears that every time she meets an older woman, who shows her some sort of affection, she describes that she feels comforted. After Jules had ripped apart Baby’s only beloved doll (the doll Baby’s mother gave to her), Baby goes for a walk. She passes by her friend Theo’s house and sees his mother in the doorway, wanting to see “if she would try and hurt me that way she had hurt Theo. I’d take her punches just like Theo had” (120). But when Theo’s mother calls Baby over, she appears to be very loving and interested in Baby’s relationship with Theo. She even tells Baby, “Come here, I want to give you a hug. You don’t get enough hugs. I can see that. I’ll give you one of my special teddy bear hugs” (121). Following that, Baby
The Song of Solomon ignites a readers imagination by supplying a commonly known man vs man and man vs himself plot with many interesting twists and turns throughout the novel that make it, uniquely its own. Some of these twists and turns include the curious use of voodoo. Voodoo is a black religious cult practiced in the Caribbean and the southern US, combining elements of Roman Catholic ritual with traditional African magical and religious rites, and characterized by sorcery and spirit possession. This element, or magical taste, flavors the novel by adding a creepy yet mystical feeling. This element provides the reader with a heavy sign that The Song of Solomon is no ordinary book. The use of voodoo in The Song of Solomon plays a huge role in marking an ominous happening or characteristic, and it plays an even bigger role in giving hints on a characters personality.
He went from despising his wife and conjuring up the most cruel and severe punishment for her to being able to reconnect and actually have children with her. His actions were initially composed of pure hatred the thought of hanging a human skeleton in her closest and forcing her to drink from a goblet made of the skull from a man with whom she had a romantic relationship, to being able to forgive her and continue their lives on together is truly amazing. To be able to transition from burning hatred for as the only way to accurately describe his punishment could be through what he did to her, to be able to love her again, is truly astounding. It is extremely reminiscent of the US Marine Corps saying “no better friend, and no worse enemy”. His actions forcing her to take part in this cruel and twisted form of punishment, to transitioning to being able to make love to this woman again and being proud of her to bear the man’s children is without a doubt awesome in a very, very weird way of
Bronte introduces an interesting theme here. Jane describes Brocklehurst as “looking longer, narrower and more rigid than ever” and it is later revealed that Mr. Brocklehurst and Miss Temple are the talking about the need for needles to repair the girl's clothes. This could be comparing Brocklehurst to a needle, with the intention of fixing the girls souls; however a needle is hardly a pleasant image, so what could be the gentle image of a caring man doing his best to ensure all these little girls go to heaven is transformed into a quite sadistic image. Needles are assosciated wit...
Vivian and Jason are both scholars and have lived their lives of the mind giving up others in pursuit of intelligence. When Vivian is being informed of her advanced ovarian cancer and what she has to endure, her reply is, “ Oh, I have to be very tough. It appears to be a matter, as saying goes, of life and death. I know all about life and death. I am, after all, a scholar of Donne’s Holy Sonnets, which explore mortality in greater depth than any other body of work in the English language. I know I am tough. A demanding professor. Uncompromising. Never one to turn from a
On August 26, 1910, in the country of Macedonia, Mother Teresa was born. She would grow up and accomplish many remarkable achievements. She taught in India for seventeen years before she experienced her 1946 “call within a call” to dedicate herself to caring for the poor and sick. She established centers for the aged, disabled, blind and a leper colony. In addition, she received the Nobel Peace Prize for her humanitarian work. It all began when she left for Ireland to begin her religious work, leaving her family and speaking a language few knew. Every aspect of her life, from her early years to her later years, are fascinating and builds in to her ministry to the week and poor.
How she seemed to know all of the right questions to ask Sethe and when she should ask them. Symbolism factors into this idea. Beloved came out of the water, Sethe had. an experience like her water would break in pregnancy when she saw Beloved, and Beloved drank so much water, as an infant child would have. to do.
Vivian Bearing undergoes an intensive cancer treatment, while she encounters a driven medical staff. As a well-known literature professor, she enjoys the challenge of seeking truth in complex or abstract ideas. While she lectures her college class, the students struggle to understand the lesson, for she assumes everyone shares the same amount of knowledge as she does. A doctorate degree in literature, Vivian takes pride in her assertions and lacks patience in explaining to others. Throughout her treatment, she loses control she once had in her classroom, shifting from a familiar and comfortable environment to the hostile and foreign hospital. In the presence of her doctors, her status shifts to being no longer the authority in the field. Once smart, ambitious, and capable of perception, Vivian is left weak and vulnerable for the first time. Vivian takes pride in her wisdom, for she knows that is the only trait that distinguishes her from the others. Ironically, what initially gave her courage eventually inhibits her ability to cope with her illness. The occurrence of obstacles is simply beyond our power to manage, therefore, those are the times when we are forced to relinquish and allow fate take
The Poisonwood Bible ultimately says that the reason humans tell stories is to allow them to evolve and grow by taking in different experiences. When Orleana says,“To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story” it presents the whole concepts of one’s life changes once they hear a certain story (385). When someone hears a powerful enough story, it can change their perception of their life and lead them down a different path. Adah is talking about her mom and says,“My life: what I stole from history and how I live with it” which establishes the concept that the past determines the present of life (492). Without the past, humans could not realize
Eva’s death leads her father to a having a possible relationship with the Lord, when he says “I would, Tom, if there was anybody there when I pray; but it’s all speaking unto nothing when I do. But come, Tom, you pray now, and show me how” (257). Without Eva’s strong faith that transcends her life, her father would have never contemplated accepting Christ as his Savior because of the home life he lived in previously. Her death reveals her father’s true intentions for his own future and forces him to rush the process of freeing his slaves which would not have occurred if Eva lived. Eva’s faith also causes many of the slaves to convert because they believe that Eva spends her days with God and wish to go to Heaven to see her again. When Tom dies at Legree’s plantation, George, his previous master, states, “It was on his grave, that I resolved, before God, that I would never own another slave, while it was possible to free him; that nobody, through me, should ever run the risk of being parted from home and friends, and dying alone on a lonely plantation, as he died” (371). Tom’s martyrdom acts as an analogy because it refers to the change that the North needs to make to prevent further incidents of cruelty among the racist society that they live in. Since Tom’s death causes George to perform good, the North should see that the
Vivian is characterized as a cheater in my opinion just because she is a married woman. And she goes out with another guy named Grant during her marriage. Vivian married a dark-skinned boy , she married him when she attended Xavier University in New Orleans . In chapter 14 she takes a walk with Grant to the sugarcane fields . Vivian and Grant starts to make love on the
He orders her to complete bed rest and does not allow her to do a thing for herself. “He is very careful and loving, and hardly lets me stir without special direction”. He does practically everything for her. She even tells of a time when he picked her up and carried her up the stairs when she is very capable of doing so herself. She is also treated like a child. Her husband makes the nursery her bedroom, along with a baby gate at the top of the stairs. John calls her child-like names such as, “blessed little goose,” and, “little girl.” When the narrator tried to talk to her husband about anything, especially her illness, he would tease her, laugh at her, and patronize her. It was like her husband had no respect for her or her opinions at all. The narrator being trapped in this room led to her realize that her husband just wants to control her and how much she wanted to free of his control.
"Look what I found." Lorelei laughed softly as she felt Violet's body react, saw it on her face. With patient glee, she continued to toy with the little button, the slickness of Violet's juices making the passage of her finger glide effortlessly in the doing until she felt the lord's daughter begin to move against the rhythm. Then she stopped and waited until Violet's eyes opened and gazed into hers. Only then did she withdraw her finger and bring it up to her lips to taste as she had the