The Red Tent

The Red Tent - An Unforgettable Testimony to Women’s Strength and Power The Red Tent by Anita Diamant illuminates one of the greatest testimonies to women’s strength: childbirth. On a creative level, Diamant did something extraordinary. She took a small passage from the Bible about the character Dinah, and made her story into an unforgettable testimony to women’s strength and power. Overlooking women’s role in Biblical life is easy because there is practically nothing written by or about women

The Red Tent by Diamant In Diamant’s powerful novel The Red Tent the ever-silent Dinah from the 34th chapter of Gensis is finally given her own voice, and the story she tells is a much different one than expected. With the guiding hands of her four “mothers”, Leah, Rachel, Zilpah, and Bilhah, all the wives of Jacob, we grow with Dinah from her childhood in Mesoptamia through puberty, where she is then entered into the “red tent”, and well off into her adulthood from Cannan to Egypt. Throughout

An act or mistake made one can cause great distress and hardships in the lives of those around them. The novel The Red Tent by Anita Diamant follows the life of a young girl into woman hood as well as her mother’s and aunt’s. The main character, Dinah, is affected by the acts of two of her brothers. Dinah’s brothers murder Dinah’s husband, and first love, as well as his family. The aftermath of her brothers heinous crimes are affect Dinah and her future. Dinah was the only girl born by Jacob and

either too general or unclear and try to clarify what they ultimately means. The novel, The Red Tent by Anita Diamant, retell the story of Dinah seen in Genesis, Chapter 34. In most version of the Bible, all interpretations of Genesis, Chapter 34 infer that Dinah was raped. In the novel Diamant, reinterprets Dinah’s “rape” as a misunderstood love affair. Some readers categorized the narrative The Red Tent as being a midrash but the novel goes beyond traditional midrashim. The story is not considered

theme of The Red Tent. The red tent is a physical and spiritual place, where the women of Jacob’s tribe—his wives, servants and daughters, could rest while menstruating and childbearing, but more importantly, it became a safe shelter for feminist unity and companionship. The red tent provides all the women a haven to be in their power together, to learn from one another, to be part of a community, and to celebrate their lives without any disturbance from the male chauvinism. In the “red tent”, women such

Red Tent Paper The Red tent is a book that follows the life of a woman named Dinah. The stories that are told throughout take place in biblical times, and follows some of the lineage of the bible itself. The book begins by telling the story of Dinah’s four mothers, along with their relationship with Dinah’s father Jacob. After being introduced to Dinah herself, the book follows her life story from beginning to end, all the way from Haran, through Canaan, Shechem, and into Egypt. Throughout this

The Red Tent Research Paper This historical fiction novel follows the life of Dinah, Jacobs's only daughter among 12 sons. Biblically in the book of Genesis, Dinah is a passive woman who has experienced torment and been silenced at the hands of men, however, in The Red Tent, Dinah, living among her 3 aunts and mother, is taught womanhood and the importance of listening to the voices of women. It is broken into three parts, first explaining how her mother Leah, and three aunts Rachel, Zilpah, and

Anita Diamant’s novel The Red Tent is a Midrash revolved around the biblical passage of Genesis 34: Dinah and the Shechemites. In this story Anita Diamant gives a voice to Simeon and Levi’s sister, Dinah, who is known as the woman who was raped then later loved by Shechem. After Shechem’s injustice of Dinah, Shechem and his city were slaughtered by Simeon and Levi. Both bible passages and the novel The Red Tent provide some similar and some different characteristic traits for Simeon and Levi which

anson World History I Mrs. Szilagyi Book Review: The Red Tent/ Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical Women throughout history have always proven to be complex. Getting into the mind of women is uncharted territory, proven to be very complex. Women have always fallen inferior to men for as long as we know. Even now that women have gained most of the same rights as men, they still are not treated the same. Evolution of women through history has been a long-sought battle, and their

with more people than I remembered, the familiar San Francisco fog and encouragement of my mother makes me feel like I had never stopped my Saturday tradition. Little green tents are set up at the entrance and beyond them are the separate booths and some more white tents. They have canvas tarp signs hanging at the top of the tents with the