Journey to the Center of the Earth (YAY!!!) (Narrator’s view) Lily stepped into the laboratory to find a large ship that they have been working on for six months now, funded by one of the richest person on earth, Mr. Gold, who has been working on his current research to see how the “death process” works which basically means his is discovering what happens after humans die, without actually dying himself. Lily’s partner, Josh was out in the small village trying to find the brave people who would come with them in the ship. Currently Lily was decorating and finalizing the ship so the people could get comfortable while in the ship. She was a very thoughtful person. She knew that until 2020, no one had gotten past the crust layer …show more content…
Eric said that all he found was Iron and Nickel. Lily, going with him, yelped how her pickaxe melted down from the heat. No one knows about my secret plot, thought Sophie. Hahaha, the only reason I have come aboard this ship in the first place was to murder Mr. Gold for his money, Sophie thought. But as Sophie wasn’t that smart, she didn’t think of a clearer plan to kill me. Instead, she went straight to the kitchen to finish the job. Let me take my knife and kill him now. Sophie goes to the kitchen and gets the sharpest kitchen knife. I walked into the kitchen looking for a bedtime snack and I was murdered on the spot. A puddle of blood was on the floor and seeping into a crack on the metal floor. Sophie threw my body into the lava, and only my money, fame, and gold were remembered. I suddenly became a ghost and cursed Sophie. Sophie took a large portion of my money (enough to buy herself a private island and guard defending it) of the gold he had treasury. How could you, I hollered. You will face a terrible fate since I have cursed you. When Sophie shrieked out of freight, the remaining crew got up and began walking around the kitchen looking for the only people who was not in their cabins, Mr. Gold and Sophie. At first, everyone thought that Sophie was killed by Mr. Gold because he was once blamed for his professor's death. (Joshua’s view) I walked up to the meeting room, nervously. As I opened the door, I felt all eyes turn to look at me. “What?” I said,
Through use of indirect characterization, Lily’s words and actions reveal a pivotal part of her character: her clever intelligence. This first becomes evident after her African American friend, Rosaleen, spills a cup of her snuff spit on the shoes of a racist white man that was provoking her. The minister at her church is
When lily went to South Carolina she goes to a lady named August. August is very artifice. Lily stays at her honey house for several months with her aunt Rooselyn. As she lives there she goes through many adventures and meets a ton of new people. She meets her true love Zach and two sister of August named May and June. She finds out a lot about her mother. She finds out that her mother Deborah stayed at the same honey house. She also finds out that her mother ran away from T-Ray when he was abusive. At the end T-Ray finds Lily at Augusts house and he threatens her that she has to come back home with him. Lily fights and eventually convinces T-Ray that she is better off with August and forgives him.
T. Ray breaks the news that Lily’s mom had left Lily with him and had come back to pack up her stuff when the big argument between he and Lily’s mom happened. At that point, Lily has enough of T. Ray, so she starts to have a mini-mental breakdown. Amidst the chaos going on inside her mind, she hears a voice say, “Lily Melissa Owens, your jar is open” (41). That little voice means all the difference in the world to Lily. To Lily, it is as if her mother is saying to leave T. Ray and start a new life. Right then she knows that she has to
In addition, after Lily’s liberation from T. Ray, another character pushed Lily to make a choice without even saying a word to her and that character was Lily’s mother, Deborah, who was dead and yet she still guided Lily to her next destination. Deborah’s largest contribution to Lily’s life was leaving behind a trail of love for Lily to follow, giving Lily someplace to go when she had no home. Lily immediately knows where to go after leaving her father's trammel, for she finds a picture of Deborah in Tiburon, South Carolina. Lily’s eagerness to learn more about her mother urges her to travel to Tiburon. Lily reveals her desperation on finding out more about her mother’s love towards her when she said, “ Well, think about it. She must have been there some time in her life to have owned this picture. And if she was, a person might remember her, you never know” (Kidd 51). Lily’s voice held a sense of hope as she believed that there was something in
Along with this, while staying with the Boatwrights Lily learned many new things, from learning to be more introspective from August, to learning to be more hardworking from the bees. Finally, by the time Lily had learned the truth about her mother abandoning her, she is strong enough to understand that it was not her fault. She is mature enough to handle her feelings of guilt, anger, and confusion, and is mature enough to love her
Lily's attitude begins to change as she becomes accustomed to the Boatwright sisters. She sees them as strong black females, living in a versatile community. When the Boatwright sisters teach her beekeeping, she sees similarities in the bee hive community, to the community the Boatwright sisters live in.The bees contribute in the teachings of life and death to
Lily, Casey is able to rescue her brother Buster, and sister Helen from a flash flood that was able to develop a significant passage in the novel. As the story sets in motion with three children almost losing their lives, Lily as the oldest was responsible in protecting and providing them assistant. By the end of the flash flood they were able to make it out alive, however, their house was destroyed which meant they had no choice but,
Luckily for Lily, she comes upon the Boatwright sisters once she reaches Tiburon. Because of the fact Lily does not have anyone to share her love with, she is compelled to stay and live with the Boatwrights. At one point in the novel, Lily and August are having a conversation when August asks Lily “What else do you love Lily?”(Kidd 39). Lily then thinks to herself, “No one had ever asked me that before. What did I love? Right off the bat I wanted to say that I loved the picture of my mother…but I had to swallow that back”(39). Lily does not feel comfortable enough yet that she says, “ I love writing poems, just give me something to write, and I’ll love it” despite the fact that Lily really loves August (39). She loves August so much that she would rather stay in Tiburon with the Boatwrights than be with her own father T. Ray. The loss of Deborah results in Lily going to obtain love somewhere other than her own home. This is also why Lily takes Rosaleen with her. Rosaleen is a black nanny who used to work on T. Ray’s farm. She has been there for Lily in the past but she cannot always be there one hundred percent because of her race. Due to Deborah’s death, Lily does not have a mother figure, however, he journey to Tiburon with Rosaleen proves to be a success as she finds the Boatwrights and strengthens her relationship with her nanny, Rosaleen.
While Lily was at August’s she experienced freedom, love, more motherly love, death, fear, and a rollercoaster of emotions. By
her hope. Seeing how far everyone has come, this also gives Lily hope and makes her spiritual.
Lily comes to know three incredible women called the Boatwrights. Their names are August, June, and May. Lily became closest to August although she was close to May and June, also. Lily felt as though August had a comforting and consoling way about her. August once told Lily “Actually, you can be bad at something...but if you love doing it, that will be enough.” (Kidd 111). Her motivational life advice helped to guide Lily. Furthermore, August had to be the one to tell Lily that they had lost May; May had killed herself. Lily did not take the news so well. Lily claimed she had started to “shiver…[she] could feel the teeth in [her] mout, crashing against each other.” (Kidd 193).
Instead of relying on another power that is above her, she takes her fate into her own hands and tries to save her own home. This self reliance develops early, and can also be seen much later in her life. When she is twenty-seven, Lily learns that her husband has a secret second family. She leaves him immediately and manages to annul the marriage. Although he had taken all of her money from their joint bank account, she does not go back to her parents in Arizona or try to find another husband to take care of her. Instead, she begins preparing for her future alone. “Since I obviously couldn't count on a man to take care of me, what I needed more than ever was a profession. I needed to get my college education and become a teacher . . . the time flew by, and when both the dispensation and the acceptance letter arrived, I had enough money for a year of college” (p. 90). Instead of wondering what to do and moping about her ex-husband, Lily is practical and knows what she wants to do next. She also mentions that she cannot depend on a husband to take care of her. If she did not have to fend for
Mullen describes Lily’s situation as “Lily Bart has been predominantly framed as a tragic victim caught within the irresistible market forces of capitalism and the fatal contradictions of gender and class politics” (45). The novel, “The House of Mirth” filled with nuances of gender and class politics. Mullen points out a weakness in Lily’s character, her position in the forces of the capitalist circle. The females in the novel face the pressures from the social circle as well. Lily is a product of her culture and upbringing. Success is measured by the capital worth and how one would survive in their social class. Unfortunately, Lily didn’t have to chance to remain in her former social class circle, after trying to pay off her debts. She died the night that she received her
Her father is described as a neutral figure and her memory of him is hazy at best. This lack of a father figure led to Lily’s attitude towards men. Because of this Lily always denies herself suitable marriages because she always feels she can do better. Lily is conflicted between the man she loves and the man with money. She loves Seldon but she deems him too poor for her perfect marriage. After much thought, Lily decides to marry Peter Gryce who is exceedingly wealthy but is too late as he is already engaged at the time of her decision. Lily cannot decide between love and money both of which are important aspects of her life. She is unwilling to compromise between the two which eventually leads to her downfall. Lily needs to marry a man with wealth and a stable status in high New York society because she needs a source of income to supplement her own unstable wealth.
The idea that the Earth was the center of the universe was not challenged until about 1507 when Nicholas Copernicus went to Rome and chaired the mathematics department. He wanted to find out how Earth works so that he can glorify God. His findings, however, contradicted the church’s scriptures. He did not publish his findings until his death because of his fear of the church accusing him of heresy. I do not believe it would have been wise for Copernicus to publish his findings because of his lack of evidence and the fact that it was his word against the whole church.