Exile is both an enriching experience and unmendable gap in life. Although exile is one word, there are many different ways to interpret it. In the novel, State of Wonder, Ann Patchett illustrates this arduous experience through Marina. Through her exile, Marina confronts the treacherous Amazon however, it ultimately led to an unexpected enlightenment in her life. Marina contemplated the right from wrong as well as the importance of the real truth. All of these experiences and emotions that were pulsing through her body ultimately revealed the contrasting worlds of morals and temptations that could lead to abandonment.
Before Marina found out that Dr. Eckman had passed away in the Amazon, she lived a conservative type lifestyle. Her relationships
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were kept quiet, and because her job was a researcher, that meant not much contact with other people. Coworkers and her boss was her main group of friends. Marina`s “rift” is more of a task, she felt obligated to go due to Karen and Mr. Fox hankering her to go to the Amazon. Both of them revealed that they wanted Marina to travel to the Amazon to find the truth about Dr. Eckman and to see where the production of the drug was. Marina was forced to go by a guilt feeling. To some extent, Marina wanted go to make Karen and Mr. Fox happy but at the same time, Marinas secluded life was not composed of adventurous acts. She was not familiar with all the vaccinations and drugs she had to take before she even went on the trip. This enriching experience for Marina comes with a cost of being exiled to a place she had never gone to think about. Marina`s exile from home to the Amazon caused her to readjust to fit into her new environment. In the Amazon, the streets were covered with little, worn down stores, the smell of the ocean reached out onto the land, and the rain flooded the streets constantly. While Marina was in an entirely new place, she felt as if she blended in. Her dark skin color, matched the sun-tanned citizens in Manaus. Although Marina had traveled thousands of miles away from home, she blended in with more of the Manaus people than she did at home. Back at home, she felt discouraged and separate from her cousins and the people around her. Marina`s alienation resulted in her feeling a different kind of sensation that she has never felt before. It was neither good nor bad; it was more ironic that she was able to blend in more at Manaus than at home. The dangerous bugs and heat decreased her overall positive experience of Manaus. However, it was enriching for Marina to participate this trip. Her efforts for not only survival, but also for justification, provided for a very enriching experience at the cost of her alienation. Through all the negative effects caused by the Amazon, Marina became a stronger, tougher person, one who doesn't give up until she find the truth, even if that truth leads to abandoning a close friend.
Dr. Swenson has been creating a fertility drug for Mr. Fox, but has also been working on a secretive side project. Discovering and realizing what Dr. Swenson has been doing, ultimately led Marina to think about the right course of action to take. She could do the right thing and tell Mr. Fox about the secret Malarial drug, or she could keep Dr. Swenson`s secret a secret. In the end Marina chose to keep her end of the bargain up, to keep Dr. Swenson`s secret quiet. All the hardships Marina had to endure demonstrated from the beginning to the end, represented that it was an enriching experience overall. It illustrated that given all the temptations and opportunities to tell the truth, her personal strength and control over situations was greater than she had imagined.
Giving up Easter back to his tribe was Marinas ultimate sacrifice. It was the true test of her instincts as a person, as well as her motives as to why she came to the Amazon in the first place. Easter was like the son Marina never had, she cared for and look out for him at all times. This final display reinforces that Marina`s strength and morality throughout the entire novel was simply dedicated to one goal, finding the truth about Dr. Eckman. In the final pages of the novel, her strong-willed charisma is what led
to the unification of the Eckman family. Marina`s moral decisions ultimately led her to overcome the boundaries she had as a person. It emphasized that although being exiled from one's home may be devastating, it can also provide an understanding to oneself. As a result of Marina`s
In the Lilies of the Field by William E. Barrett, Homer and Mother Maria both display straightforward, hardworking, and stubborn character traits. Firstly, Homer and Mother Maria both display a straightforward personality by being brutally honest about their opinions. For example, when Mother Maria asks Homer to build a chapel, Homer speaks his mind by telling her he does not want to build it. Mother Maria shows her straightforward behavior during Homer’s stay at the convent. One morning, when Homer sleeps in late, Mother to becomes extremely upset and is not afraid to show how she feels about him. Secondly, both Homer and Mother Maria display a hardworking spirit. Homer is a hardworking man because after finally agreeing to build the chapel,
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In Fish written by Stephen Lundin, Harry Paul, and John Christensen we find a woman who moved to Seattle from Southern California with her husband her two children. This woman Mary Jane Ramirez had everything going for her she was a happy person who had a happy life her family their relationship couldn't get any better. They both had good jobs, jobs that they enjoyed. Then one day, twelve months after they had moved to Seattle Dan her husband was rushed to the hospital with a burst aneurysm he then died. After that incident everything changed for Mary Jane especially when she took an offer to work on the third floor for First Guarantee Financial.
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