Summary Of ' The Lord Of Saving You ! '

Soon the family is on their way again but the grandmother forces her way by using the children. Getting the kids exited enough to annoy their father so much that he breaks down and changes the route and seeks out the old gothic house. We soon learn that the grandmother has made a geographical mistake thinking Georgia for Tennessee. Her ignorance starts a chain of events which will result in all their deaths: Brining the cat along even though she knew it wold not be allowed, forcing her will even when unsure if it was right (O'Connor, 2, 11). The grandmother's uncertainty of geography could be read as mirroring her spiritual uncertainty.

As the story develops, the reader’s thoughts are guided by the structure of the piece in a way that Tan is able to share an important lesson through the form of a personal narrative. The opening text immediately introduces the narrator and her insecurities as she wishes for a “slim new American nose” (Tan 1). The story initially takes on a negative tone as Tan proceeds to have a negative outlook throughout the entire evening. Her overwhelming anxiety can almost be felt by the reader as she worries what Robert will think of her “noisy Chinese relatives who lacked proper American manners” and overall “shabby Chinese Christmas” (Tan 1). With the tone set, Tan continues to amplify each dreadful detail of her family’s traditional Christmas Eve dinner. This includes the actual meal, that of which appeared to be

I turned to see where it was coming from and realized my dress was on fire. Frozen with fear, I watched the yellow-white flames make a ragged brown line up the pink fabric of my skirt and climb my stomach” (Walls 9). Immediately, Jeannette’s mother rushes her to hospital and underwent a skin graft to ensure her survival. In today’s society, a young child cooking a hotdog is very scary and most parents will not allow it out of fear of what happened to Jeannette. The fact that her first memory is one that Jeannette feels fear and happens to be a memory that is on the other side of fear, danger, is important. Her life foreseen by her first memory is also filled with danger; yet, she does not have to view them as dangerous ones with fear. Due to the fact that these memories are from a perspective of fear leads her story to have a theme of fear.

We first uncover some important details about Hennie and how she had to drive twenty miles in order to get care and treatment due to racism. Next, we discussed her family and that they were originally from Roanoke, Virginia but after her mothers death they all moved back to Clover, Virginia. Finally we examined the places that she moved such as Clover, Virginia and Baltimore; we also examined what happened to her after the moves. Such as, Crazy Joe trying to kill himself over Henrietta because he loved her so much and was slightly jealous of David. But the most important thing that happened in chapter two was when David left to go to Baltimore to find work in 1941 after Pearl

Jeannette was lit on fire. Her body was burned and she had to go to the hospital. She was making hotdogs in the kitchen as a three year old. Her mother was in the other room singing and painting. Jeannette bent over to give her dog a taste of the hot dog and her dress caught fire. She screamed and her mother ran in to help. Rose Mary tarnished the flames but Jeannette received hospital worthy injuries. They put her on a bed of ice while assessing her burns. “One of them squeezed my hand and told me I was going to be okay. “I know,” I said, “but if I’m not, that’s okay too.” The nurse squeezed my hand again and bit her lower lip.” (pg. 10) Even with the chaos of being rushed to the hospital Jeannette still remained calm.

Standing at the top of the stairs, the savory scent of baking biscuits drifted up from the kitchen below. She could understand why Fiona’s traveling salesman always picked this room. The luscious aroma filled the house with mouth-watering delight. The growling of her stomach led her to the dining room where she slid into a chair at an already empty table.

It seemed that she lay on the ground, staring at the bottom of a wagon loaded with hay. She blinked, trying to see the wagon clearly- it sat near a barn, there were several pumpkins on the ground beside the wagon and one atop the hay. Allie raised her head and blinked her eyes several times before the depth of her vision leveled out and she realized that she was in bed. She lay there a moment, staring at the wall- a painting that hung there, had somehow taken her inside it. That too, had seemed real. Her head felt larger and heavier than normal and her mouth was dry. She was so thirsty that when she tried to swallow, she could taste the brandy she drank the night before- Eli had not told her that it would cause one to have strange dreams and make their head feel as if it weighed a ton. She finally made it to a sitting, and then to a standing position. She dressed and then cautiously made her way down the stairs to breakfast- she was not hungry, but she knew there would be plenty to drink besides coffee and milk. She could nibble on something to keep her grandmother from nagging

After Jeannette wakes up in the middle of the night with her two sibilings, Lori and Brian, asleep and her parents out of the hotel room she is awoken by an intense heat. As she discovers there is a fire on the curtains blazing she is “stuck.” In a sense that she doesn’t have the energy to yell or move to warn Lori and Brian. She is then “rescued” by her father who comes in yelling, which awakes Lori and Brian, wraps a blanket around Jeannette and carries her outside of the hotel room as he rushes Lori and Brian out. As they go across the street to a bar Jeannette begins to reevaluate all of her experiences with fire.

As she is talking with her son and giving her reasons for not wanting to go to Florida we start to see through her communication and interaction with her family just how rude and unruly all of the family members are. The children, John Wesley and June Star, were constantly interrupting the grandmother with their smart remarks while she was talking. Never once are they corrected or reprimanded by their parents. The following day the family sets out on their trip early in the morning. The grandmother is the first one in the car. We get to see her being deceitful as she brings along her cat knowing that her son did not want the cat at the motel with them. She settles herself into the vehicle with her stow away and begins to situate herself. We are given the impression by how she is dressed and carries herself that this is a very elegant and sophisticated woman (398). It is not until she continues to speak and uses inappropriate and offensive language that we get a clear picture of how obnoxious she is . Her obnoxious behavior progresses throughout the story.

His mother impetuously brought him outside and made Johannes throw up, which ebbed his pain. His mother got all of the children out of the house as well, all are trembling scared and confused about how the brazier could have poisoned them. Their mother informs them that the burnt coals let out a poison gas and that they are lucky to be

In the past week Chloe and I have read from page 30 to 75 because Chloe and I are on a 15 page a day reading schedule. In the last 45 pages a lot of new information was revealed including new secrets, new feelings and new characters in the novel. When the nurse, Caroline, saw the conditions of the institution in Louisville she did not believe that the circumstances were suitable for such a young infant such as Phoebe. “See that you are out of here in five minutes... get out of here and don’t come back…she was gone” (pg.31). With that, she decided to take the child back with her home in the suburbs. Chloe and I both agreed that this decision was the best possible way to ensure the baby with a better life than the one she would live in the institution. Within these next pages, two new characters were introduced to the readers. Bree, who is the mother’s sister, has come in to help the mother out with the little boy, Paul, and coping with the loss of her supposedly dead daughter Phoebe. “I had twins Bree…No one else will say a word about her. They act like since I have Paul, I ought to be satisfied” (pg.43) The other character that was introduced was Albert Simpson. When Caroline’s car broke down on her way home from the institution, Albert generously offers Caroline and Phoebe a ride to their home in Lexington. “Why don’t you come sit with me in the rig?...I’m considering that baby”(pg.54) Chloe and I discussed the part of the novel when Caroline

Anna knelt on her bed, crying into her pillow. She had no idea why Aunt Mavis had been so angry. Anger just seemed to be Aunt Mavis’ usual temperament of late. Anna had missed so many dinners, she’d begun to wonder if Aunt Mavis even knew how to cook.

She picks up a dog-eared old book and thumbs through the pages, looking for a story to interest her. But, of course, the only story she can think of it the boy on fire. She had asked about him last night, once the bustle of the town had faded to a lull. Knowing that laughing, flaming children were not a common occurrence,

His name was Hoshe 'a (“Salvation”) the son of Nun, of the tribe of Ephraim, but Moses went and renamed him Yehoshu 'a (“The Lord is Salvation”) or as in North American cultures traditionally known as Joshua (Numbers 13:16, NRSV). Joshua is a great leader from the bible he really shows how being faithful to God will end in complete success for you. I think it important to note, that just because he is a man in the bible and known as a great leader, Joshua was only human he let doubt settle in at times and wasn’t as some would say “super human” he had faults just like us and was not perfect. The book of Joshua is a great example that Yahweh is a promise-keeping God even if He works on His own time and in His own way. For example the Promise land was promised to the Israelites back in Genesis 15:18-21 where God states: “To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt as far as the great river the Euphrates. The land of the Kenites, Kenizites, Kadmonites; the Chitties, Perizites, Refaim; the Emorites, Canaanites, Gigashites and Yevusites.”

The floorboard in the hallway creaked again. Emma flew off the bed and dashed for cover behind the silk dressing screen. Her heart pounded. Sweat trickled down the side of her face. Trembling, she peeked around the edge of the screen and watched as a tall figure entered the room. When he stepped into the light of the fireplace, her hand flew to her mouth to silence the gasp. It could not be him. He would never poison her mother. Would