Themes In Year Of Wonders By Geraldine Brooks

The theme of the story is under some circumstances people can be blind to the truth. Character Edie determines the style of the story by talking about the circumstances of her life as a fifteen year old girl and as an older woman. She retells the stories of those that she has known, and the man that she believed she loved deeply. Sometimes the things we want to happen may not be the things that life has for us. We need to be open to all the opportunities in life that are different from what we believe.

Geraldine Brooks provides a well-written novel. She achieves her goal to deliver an entertaining and informative story by incorporating accurate historical events and personal experiences with the fictional character March. This helps drives the story to create a convincing novel. The element regarding Grace and March enhances the story by creating an ulterior relationship that the reader may create strong feelings towards. Brooks also enhanced the book by including the character Marmee. She represents the women of the period, but unlike most women, Marmee is outspoken and strongly opinionated about the subject of slavery. Overall, the novel is historically based but

These aspects of the religious theme are especially important in the development of the plot of "Greenleaf."

There is a very notable lack of religion among the main characters. Each of them has some form or corruption or sin affecting them.

The function of religion plays a significant role in the narrative, especially the dissimilarities between the narrator's religious beliefs and the "Other" religion of her captors. More specifically the Puritan ideology of the

The two major themes in this novel are revenge and survival. Revenge is major because Ishmael’s motive and many other soldiers’ motives throughout his soldier career was getting revenge on somebody. Survival is a major theme because everywhere in his story he is just trying to make it another day.

To understand this theme one must first understand the characters in this book. A prime example of an unhappy character

The seventeenth-century era forms the perfect setting that encaptivates the audience along a survival journey of a woman who is forced to face the life threatening plague of the 1600’s head on. Protagonist, Anna Frith watches the transformation of the town as they turn from religion to murderous witch-hunting and natural medicines for alternative answers. Geraldine Brooks has combined the use of ideas, representations, values and beliefs to foreground the theme of religion vs. science within the 2001 novel. The elaboration on a true events embraces (what are the ideas, representations etc) that creates a novel of drama, romance and adventure.

While reading Behind the Beautiful Forevers, I found the prologue to a bit confusing. The reader suddenly learns that the presumed main character, Abdul, is going into hiding while his father, Karam is going to offer himself to the police. I suppose the author was trying to set up direction of the story and then backtrack to the beginning where she would discuss the events that led up to the scene written in the prologue. It reads like one of those news magazine television shows, such as 48 Hours, wherein the show starts off with the attention grabbing main event in order to grab the audience and keep them interested. Such a format would be in line for Ms. Boo since she is a journalist by trade.

Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene is a poignant book that delivers a powerful message about discovering what makes one happy. In this book, a young girl named Patty Bergen is living in Arkansas during WWII. She lives with a family who makes her feel unloved and she longs for a friend. Patty hides Anton, a German prisoner in her house and she ends up developing a close bond with him. The main theme of Summer of My German Soldier is that one must find the values within themselves in order to derive happiness and lead a successful life.

Kate Grenville's episodic novel Joan Makes History (1988) is also "good to think with" in term of national identity. Grenville deviates from exploring Amanda Lohrey's suggestion of a "suitable past" (1996). Instead of celebrating what Lohrey describes as "mindless nationalism" (1996, p 150), in the invented traditions of Australian society, national identity, political progression and territory, Grenville explores the key periods of Australian history through the first-person narration, presenting subjective perspectives on the cultural ‘turning points' of the past century. The episodic structure of the story allows Grenville to fully explore the diverse cultural perspectives of these events, as thus communication the message of how

The theme most easily interpreted from the book is the never ending conflict of good vs. evil. Through the conflict we see a recurring theme of good vs. evil. For example, whether it was a good side of a person vs. the dark side, an evil person vs. the innocent civilized society, or a wretched scientist vs. a practical ethical doctor, we see it used in all three previously given examples of conflict. Another example is although there is good in Dr. Jekyll, we see as the book goes on that he cannot hide his dark and evil alter ego. Even through science it is deemed to be impossible to erase the devilish and foul urges the doctor possesses. It seems that evil seems to win more than good which is why the book tends to give off a creepy dark vibe.

The Novel Six Impossible things, written by Fiona Wood, tells the story of a teenager dealing with the separation of the family, moving, going to a social event with a crush, and having to get home by midnight. It is similar to the fairy tale story Cinderella. Both stories follow the same broad outline. The ideologies present in the book, such as your dream can come true and act upon opportunities provided to you, are developed through the author’s use of structure plot and characters. Six impossible things can be seen as a modern-day fairy tale due to the fact that both Cinderella and Six impossible things have the same underlying ideologies.

Perfection is a dreamy idea but is merely an impossible ideal. Marianne Moore was raised in a family of arts in which her grandfather originally passed down a passion for literacy to Moore's mother, who taught Moore music through the piano and a love for books. The writing Moore has developed is undoubtedly religious and aesthetic. The combination of beauty and God is what made many admire her work. In Marianne Moore's poem,¨What Are Years¨, the idea of human imperfections is an expectation from God, but it is what one does with his imperfections that determine eternity.

A major theme in this book is about God. Seen in, “If there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaking need for an unshakeable God.” (23) Maya’s grandma is a firm believer of God, and since Maya moves in with her, she forces Maya to go to church every Sunday. Even through all the trials and