Jacob's Treachery: A Short Story

I like how the women had such close bonds to each other when doing daily house work to make it more enjoyable to them. " A conflicting account I noticed right away was the meeting between Laban and Jacob for the first time. The book of Genesis recalls Laban running to embrace and kiss Jacob and bringing him to his house." I like what you said right here because this is a great difference from the Bible and The Red Tent it shows a difference in their relationship. The family's religion is very interesting because of the very different deities they worship with specific rituals they complete.

Then we also have the religious service prior to the Ceremony, with the biblical reference to Genesis 30:1-3 whereby Rachel is unable to have children and therefore commands Jacob to impregnate her maid who will then give them the child. The role of the Handmaid within this society is to bear a child for barren wives but there is no suggestion, in The Bible, of Rachel being present at the time of the conception between Jacob and her maid unlike the grotesque threesome prescribed by the founders of Gilead, known as the Ceremony.

As a child, Jacob Portman loved to listen to his grandfather Abraham’s stories about his life in wars, his performances in circuses, and his life in a supposedly peculiar children's home run by a wise old hawk who smoked a pipe. As he grew older, though, he began to doubt his grandfather’s stories, until one day he went to visit his grandfather, and instead found him dying in the woods near his home. His dying grandfather tells him to go to the old children’s home and to “‘Find the bird. In the loop. On the other side of the old man’s grave…’” (page 37). Jacob feels something watching him, and raises his flashlight to reveal a beast that seemed to have been translated directly from his childhood nightmares. After his grandfather’s death, no one seems to believe Jacob’s story and his parents decide to send him to a psychiatrist, named Dr. Golan. Dr. Golan believes it would be best for Jacob to do as his late grandfather said and to visit the old children's’ home. Jacob and his father decide to go to the island, but later Jacob finds the house long deserted, covered in vines and trees.

She became Isaac’s wife and conceived twins, favoring Jacob and thus aided him in getting his father’s blessing

In the Poisonwood Bible, Nathan's and all of his daughter’s names are a reference to characters found in the Bible. Throughout the book, Kingsolver uses biblical allusions in the text that ties in with the characters and events that take place. In the Bible, Rachel is the younger daughter of Laban's. Just like The Poisonwood Bible Rachel, biblical Rachel is referred to as being “lovely in form, and beautiful.” (NIV) Gen. 29:17 A man named Jacob was astounded by her beauty and fell in love with her, deciding to work seven years of labor so he could eventually marry her. However, on his wedding night he was tricked in to marrying Rachel's older sister, Leah. For a second time, Jacob decided to work another seven years and was finally able to

Leah with Anatole when she becomes sick with malaria. She sacrifices Rachel by letting her go

During this series of events it can be deemed that Jacob is an unreliable narrator through the unrealistic events, and because Jacob can be declared delusional. Jacob can be declared delusion, because he is currently ninety years old, experiencing memory loss, and taking medicine. For instance, a week earlier Jacob’s family came to visit and he did not know who they were, “I didn’t know them. I faked it, though- when they made their way toward me and I realized it was me they had come to see, I smiled” (Gruen 218). Sara Gruen implies that the reader should be questioning what Jacob is saying when he claims that he is walking out of the nursing home because even Jacob says, “Nobody seems to think it odd that an old man is standing in his slippers

In the long run, this strained their relationship to the point that Leah and Rachel felt like strangers in their own family. In the manner of the deceivers being deceived, Jacob and Laban learned the hard way that their dishonest actions came at a cost. Laban’s deceit against Jacob parallels Jacob’s deceit against Isaac and Esau. Jacob did not respect the rights of the firstborn

“Rachel is Jacob’s favored and primary wife.” (Stacy, 2002, 24) Early in the novel, Rachel stands out initially for her beauty and magnetism. There is no denying that Rachel is a professional and sagacious teacher for Dinah, her medical skill is so superb and brilliant that she has cured and saved many lives of mothers and their babies. In Dinah’s mind, “Rachel [knows] everything about delivering babies, she and Inna [try] to learn what they might from women wherever they [go].”

Although Jacob had committed many deceitful acts against Esau, such as tricking him in giving up his birthright to Jacob and taking Isaac’s blessing also, Jacob was not punished at all by Esau or God. For instance, in Genesis 32:35 before Jacob went to meet Esau, he is wrestling with God disguised as a man. This scene is important because this is when Jacob tells the man his name leading him to admit what he has done and who he is, a deceiver. The man told Jacob “Your name shall no longer be Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with beings divine and human, and have prevailed” (Genesis 32:29), leading God to rename him and also blessing him, although he had committed many wrongdoings by deceiving Esau. Another example that Jacob was exempted

There is no shortage of research surrounding Jacobitism and the battle at Culloden in 1745. The battle took place on April 16, 1746 and was incredibly short-lived. Within an hour, the Jacobite troops lost over 1500 men, while the English only lost around fifty. Many sources also note that English troops then toured the Highlands killing clansmen, effectively ending the Highland way of life. Several sources offer in detail the exact movements of the troops leading up to and including the deadly battle. “The Skye Boat Song,” a traditional Scottish folksong still sung in the present, also provides a narrative of the Bonnie Prince’s escape to Skye after the devastating loss at Culloden.

However, in the case of James, it is unsure why it became James, rather than Jacob. One may conjecture that James was already a common name in England as was the King who commissioned the translation, but it is still perplexing as to why Jacob was deliberately changed to James. Was Jacob too Jewish for them or was there an attempt at Christianize him or make him appear as a Gentile? Why are other modern translations unwilling to change it to Jacob or even Yaakov?

At both the beginning and the end of his account, Mayhew draws a comparison between Jacob’s Island and the Indian city of Jessore. He originally states that Jacob’s Island is “the Jessore of London,” and later broadens this title to “the Jessore of England” (431, 437). However, Mayhew provides no context around, or elaboration on, these comparisons. The analogy could simply be a remark on the locations’ mutual identity as vectors for the spread of cholera. Or, in addition to the superficial likeness, Mayhew could be making generalizations about the people and society in each environment. Though the metaphors bookend the text, suggesting their significance, their meaning is never clearly explained. So, why does Mayhew compare these two geographically

Have you ever met someone so mysterious that you become drawn to them because you want to figure out who they are as a person? Jacob Knight is twenty years old, and he was born in Westland, Michigan. Jacob lives with his father. He has one sibling, a sister that is twenty-two years old. This makes Jacob the youngest and the baby in the family. Jacob also has to share his home with two of his cats, Bowser and Angel. Jacob goes to Schoolcraft College, and this is his third year.

When Jacob finally arrives in Haran, Jacob falls in love with Rachel and offers himself to her father, Laban, in return for her. However, on their wedding night, Laban tricks Jacob by switching Rachel with his eldest daughter Leah. When Jacob realizes what happened, he demands that Rachel be married to him as well. Unbeknownst to him, Rachel could not bear children as she was “barren”, however since God was