Dr. Esther 's Life

Out of all the female characters in the Bible, Esther stands out as one of the most heroic and complex figures. As a comparison, she could easily be equated to the heroic Joseph from the book of Genesis as they both have similar experiences in the royal court. But unlike Joseph, Esther’s most heroic trait is not that she can analyze dreams. Rather, her most important feature is that she is a wise strategist, which allows her to save the Jews and her cousin, Mordecai. Yet, Esther does not begin her journey as a cunning tactician. She is molded and shaped by her surroundings and other heroic features. In fact, it is these additional qualities that accumulate and extend to her becoming a

Intimate apperal takes place in 1905 New York City. The main character is Esther lives in a boarding house and sews intimate apparel for her friends Mrs. Van Buren, a wealthy white lady, and Mayme, a black prostitute. Esther dreams of owning her own beauty parlor for black women and has be saving in a quilt she made over the years. One day she is contacted by a lonely Caribbean man named George Armstrong, who is working on the Panama Canal. Since Esther can’t read or write, she has Mrs. Van Buren and Mayme to help her reply to George. After six months of writing each other George asks Esther to marry him even though they have never seen each other. Throughout the play, Esther and Mr. Marks, who she buys her materials for her work from, seem to have feelings for each other but don’t seem to know how to go about it. Which is apparent in the many awkward moments they share during the play. Meanwhile, Esther and George get married and begin life together, but things quickly go downhill when George can’t find work. He begins to become agitated with Esther keeping the money she has been saving from him and also begins to have an affair with Mayme. At the time, Mayme doesn’t know that George is Esther’s husband but Esther finds out when she sees that the jacket Mayme’s new man is the exact jacket she made for George. Even after finding out

At the end he is recruited into an army that fights the rebels but he is sent for treatment. That is where he develops a close relationship with Esther. She leads him through rehab and he is able to heal and regain his humanity. He meets Uncle Tommy along the way who allows him to stay with them. Then he gets the chance to go to New York where he meets Laura who will allow him to come back and stay with her in New York forever. His family especially his mother and Junior led him to this along with his friends that he met along the way. He was committed to finding his family which allowed to not give up. Even though he was close, he was able to heal and have a successful life by teaching what he went through.

Constantin picks Esther up to take her to the United Nations. Through talking, it is apparent that they are both interested in one another. Esther remarks on Constantin’s height, but seems to ignore that later on when he holds her hand. She says that when he held her hand she felt as happy as she did when she went to the beach with her father years before. This makes it obvious that Esther is not locked into Buddy. I feel like this could bring her out of her shell, but also give her the strength to forget Buddy. Although it is quite apparent that she is not wild about Buddy, I feel that there are still feelings there. Since she reminisced on the happiness she felt at the beach when she was nine years old, she cannot help but wonder why she

The Book of Esther is the story of a young Jewish woman, who by the will of God is placed in the position to speak out against the genocide of her people. Esther is chosen by King Ahasuerus to be his new queen after the previous queen, Vashti defies him and is subsequently dethroned. Raised by her elder cousin Mordecai, Esther is advised to keep her Jewish ethnicity a secret. Haman the King’s high official is offended by Mordechai’s refusal to pay respect and bow down to him. Word of Mordecai being a Jew reaches Haman. Seeking revenge, Haman manipulates King Ahasuerus into issuing an edict for the extermination of all Jews. Mordecai calls upon Esther to convince the King to spare the Jewish people. Strategically, Esther arranges a banquet where

I awake and I’m being rushed down a hallway full of doctors and patients in a gurney. What could have happened? I can’t seem to move my legs or my arms and when I try to speak, I can’t. The gurney. rushed hallways beyond hallways and as I’m about to pass through a set of doors, everything becomes a little blurry. My eyes slowly shut and soon everything went black.

This is a historical story of good versus evil, from rags to riches, the Book of Esther is a unique story in the Bible. The story is played out though characters, rather than God himself. This story provides us with the view of the Jewish community who remained exiled from their homeland, mostly the Jews living in the Persian Empire. This story has a charming way of telling this story in the Bible, never once is God mentioned in the entire Book Esther. This behind-the-scenes take of God at work is displayed throughout Esther's chapters through "coincidences" and "happen chances" that help to save the Jews from Haman's wicked plot to destroy them. This story is met with some specific miles stones that become apparent thought the story and eventual turn full circle, as God is absent, this is him working tough human interactions.

We come into greatness not by trying to make ourselves great, but through our service to Jesus Christ, because apart from Him all work is meaningless (Keller, 128). Keller does a great job of explaining how work should not own you or be what your identity is wrapped in because it then takes a form of "salvation” for some people. Through Jesus Christ we have a new identity, and when we allow our identity to be based on our works it only sets us up for disappointment and unfullfillment.

Sometimes we feel that we can not go on or we don’t have the strength for large tasks, but, as I’ve heard other Christians say, “if God calls us to do it, He will get us through it.” Esther also shows us that this world is really not about us. Esther put all the other Jews’ lives before her own. This is not a characteristic that shows up in our culture very often today. As Christians have said, we are to live in this world, but not to be of this world. We are to follow Jesus’ and Esther’s examples of putting others needs before our own, including being willing to lay down our lives for others. Through Esther, God shows us that even under terrible circumstances , we are still called to have courage, wisdom, and integrity. “For such a time as this…” God prepares us for the events that will take place in our lives. He puts us in the right place at the right time and equips us with what we need, but it is still our choice to obey Him or

Within the “Family Life Cycle Theory”, Esther is at the stage of “Raising Children” which focusing on the child’s needs and one’s career. In the example, you can see this by Esther being able to provide for her family by maintaining a full-time job, and being able to maintain the house, and pay for extracurricular activities for the children. Furthermore, her taking care of her children by coming into get services to help with Robert’s behaviour, so Esther is ensure that the child’s needs are being taken care of. Esther is able to maintain time for herself, and establishing relationships. But within the Family Life Cycle, it does not talk about a divorce and how that impacts the family structure, or does not take into account the impact of

Esther’s sense of alienation from the world around her comes from the expectations placed upon her as a young woman living in 1950s America. Esther feels pulled between her desire to write and the pressure she feels to settle down and start a family. While Esther’s intellectual talents earn her prizes, scholarships, and respect, many people assume that she most wants to become a wife and mother. The girls at her college mock her studiousness and only show her respect when she begins dating a handsome and well-liked boy. Her relationship with Buddy earns her mother’s approval, and everyone expects Esther to marry him. Buddy assumes that Esther will drop her poetic ambitions as soon as she becomes a mother, and Esther also assumes that she cannot

Support is something crucial for anyone to keep going but this is a key element that Esther was lacking in her life. She was surrounded by a society who wanted her to be something different and this applied to her mother also who encourages her to learn something practical like shorthand so she could have a stable job instead of encouraging her to follow her dreams of becoming a writer. Esther however refuses to lean shorthand and refuses to be submissive and simply follow as other say instead of writing her own thoughts. She has an image of what she doesn’t want but not what she wants in life. However as the novel continues this decision not to learn shorthand becomes yet another strike against her as a further failure and hence adds to her feelings of estrangement from the other women in society. Esther is not only different from people of her mother’s generation but is also different from women of her generation (Smith, 2010).

After her almost death, Esther was moved and transported through a slew of different institutions and hospitals. She was finally committed into a private institution that was paid for by Philomena Guinea, a female writer who had heard of Esther’s story and could relate to her being that she had also gone through the same scenario. The institution was broken up into three buildings: Wymark, Caplan, and Belsize. During this time, she said that she felt as if the bell jar encasing her was now hovering above her, cautiously opening her to the real world. Esther roomed in Caplan and later in Belsize. She was assigned Doctor Nolan who really seemed to understand and help her on the road to recovery. While in the private institution, she had to endure another shock treatment and was relieved whenever the results were much more beneficial than her first encounter. She had improved so much that she was granted town hours, where she was permitted to go shopping or to the movies by herself. During these hours she met a college professor, Irwin, and finally lost her virginity to him.

The writing of the book of Esther is a hard one as it has more

The book of Esther is the story of a young girl that stood up to save her people. During the rule of King Ahasuerus, 478 bc, Esther was able to gain the trust of the King, become Queen, stop the genocide of the Jewish community and become apart of history. Although no one knows who wrote the story of Esther there is a reason we needed to know about the courage and strengths of Queen Esther.