Who Are We Without Our Trials And Tribulations?

To conclude, Uncle John alienates himself from his family due to his constant feeling of powerlessness. He believed that the will of God is for him to compensate for the biggest sin the family could he caused and the only reason to

gods being human. He is a well developed person. You see every aspect of John.

John realizes in confessing his name he will be an outcast, and have no one's respect. John points out, “I have three children-How may I teach them to walk like men in the world” (IV.703-5). Even his kids won’t have respect for him if he would lie to save his life. In signing his name the community would snicker at his name as they pass the church doors proud not to be a sinner as he was. He would have little to live for in life. He would have few to no friends, his family would be divided and he would be an outcast. As John examines his predicament he must see all the divided families and despair to come unless something was done. In death John put aside his own life to stop the hysteria that would lead to the demise of many more

He sought to stay close to God by avoiding committing “the sins of the flesh,” again. He wanted to live a more righteous life than he had when he was living against the will of God. He felt that each person, should, above all things, have a relationship with God.

John had a dream of a society of peace and wanted to follow his conscious and do what he wanted to do instead of following in his father’s footsteps and run the family business

At the realization of the truth, John breaks down and sobs, not only from seeing how his race had been devastated before, but also at the realization that all the knowledge he had gathered as a child was false. In his unyielding desire to learn more, he never thought of what would happen once he gained the knowledge that he wanted, and if he would be satisfied if it revealed something he didn’t want to learn.

She explains that “the strict and inviolable regard [he] [has] ever paid to truth, gives [her] pleasing hopes that [he] will not swerve from her dictate…” What she means by this is that John should not ignore the truth, and it should be the main basis of his life. She gives “truth” human characteristics as she shares her hopes that he will not disregard “her”.

The maim point of this chapter is to show the love developing between John and

John is unhappy with his lack of knowledge, and he wants to know more about the gods and where they came from. Another key point Benet clarifies, “ I prayed and purified myself, waiting for a sign. The sign was an eagle. It flew east”(176). John sees the eagle and is determined to follow it towards the destination he is hoping for. Because John and both have undeniable motivation to start their journey it's easy to see the obvious similarity.

His family gets killed shortly after being captured and John immediately turns to the Lord. John tries to appeal to the reader's emotions by talking about how his family died, but he is thankful that the Lord kept him alive and gave him clothing “for though some were so cruel and barbarous as to take and carry to the door two of my children and murder them, as also a negro women; yet they gave me liberty to put on my clothes, keeping me bound with a cord on one arm”(12). By using pathos John William persuades the reader to always have faith in the Lord even in bad times, and he makes sure the reader knows from the start that keeping your faith is the most important thing especially in the worst of times “that we might have grace to glorify his name, whether in life or death; and, as I was able, committed our state to God” (12). Ethos is used in the story as well, the way John uses it is by talking about all the positive things that has happened to him while he is in captivity. He once again uses his faith, basically saying the reader should listen to him because his undying faith is saving him.

his profession as a pastor in search for vital truth and hope. But his father

Usually when people read books they don’t always look back and see what the author was trying to show. You will see my idea of what I think the author of the book is trying display. I think the message the author is trying to portray is that just because you get knocked down, feel down, or that your down doesn't mean that you have to stay that way forever.

His possible true potential starts at the beginning of Act Two, when he reveals what he is going through a very by saying, “It’s winter in here yet.”(Miller 51) This remark shows us that John is under pressure from his wife. He really messed up by committing adultery and is now having to live with his wife’s mistrust; no matter how hard he tries to gain her approval. He later shows himself as a hero when he says, “I have three children - how may I teach them to walk like men in the world, and I sold my friends?”(Miller 143) He shows that he will not be that man that lies in order to save himself in mortality. He instead chooses to die for the right cause, as a martyr. He shows us what it is really like to be a true

In the last chapter of this novel, “The Threshing-Floor”, Baldwin dedicates this chapter to John’s journey to his spirituality. In the opening chapter John describes a feeling of possession as he and his congregation is in pray. Baldwin narrates the events happening to John, “And something moved in John’s body which was not John. He was invaded, set naught, possessed. This power had struck John, in the head or in the heart;” As his mind is taken on this journey he feels like he’s lost mobility. His body becomes weightless, but he does not want to subdue, he fights to rise up. He does not want to fall, because he feels like it’s a dungeon deeper then hell. In his trace he sees his family all about him and the congregation members. John does what I would do, he looks towards his father for help, when he looks into his face, what he sees is not light, but darkness. There was no warmth or compassion from his father. This is why he felt the way he did towards his father; he loathed him because that is what his father showed him. His feelings of hatred is depicted in this passage narrated by Baldwin,

At this time, the author maintains, we have two kinds of lives. There is the natural life and the spiritual life and they are opposed to each other. The natural life knows that if the spiritual life got a hold of it, all its self-centeredness and its self-will would be killed. Therefore, it fights for its life. The author compares this to a child who tries to bring to life his toy tin soldier, but the toy soldier did not want to be alive. So, just like us, it would rebel. Because the toy soldier likes the tin, he would think that you are killing him if you tried to change him. Similarly, man has some things about him that he likes, and probably wants to keep. He, too, may become obstinate even if God tried to change him. The author explains, however, that God sent this one man through whom all other men could become a Son of God, and the natural man would have to change for this process to take place. Man could resist, but the opportunity is still there for