with the finest furnishings, her clothes spun from the most expensive threads. Her children likely had everything they needed. In one really bad day, she lost it all. All their wealth, property, and way of life (Job 1:13-22) disappeared. She was not only bankrupt, but homeless, and forced to beg outside the city dump.
She also became a caretaker for her disease-ravaged husband. Although Old Testament scholars don't agree on the nature of Job's illness, clearly his pain was so excruciating that he asked God to take his life (Job 3). It distorted Job's appearance so dramatically that his closest friends could barely recognise him and when they approached, they fell to the ground in pity (Job 2:12). This last temptation brought by Satan was so severe, it nearly broke Job's soul. While we might weep with Job, we miss the faithful, steady presence of his wife. She put aside her own grief to care for her husband. Imagine the exhausting drain, caring for a suffering soul like
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Perhaps her testimony is her simple presence during her husband's lowest moments. We read that his siblings and friends returned and consoled and comforted him because of all the trials the Lord had caused him (Job 42:11). It's easy to show compassion after the event, but during Job's lowest moments, they were nowhere to be found. Yet every single day, there was his wife, caring and enduring the trials Satan had inflicted, but seemingly without knowing why.
The trials that would destroy most marriages did not split up Job and his wife. They stuck it out together. And at the end of this story, we read of them having and raising another ten children! Was her attitude fine throughout the problems that engulfed her family? No. Did she say things she would later regret? Yes. But during it all, she endured and her faith in God stayed intact. Perhaps her service to her husband should be held up as a model of biblical character?
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Grapes of Wrath is similar to Roger and Me with a couple significant differences. Both groups of workers were losing their jobs, but the land workers in Grapes of Wrath were losing more than their jobs. The tenant men would no longer work in the fields but they were also losing their homes at the same time. In Flint, when the factory workers were laid off, they still had a home to live in for at least a short period of time and would have had food in their cabinets. They had been paid well and possibly had a little money in the bank.
Around 11:30 PM that night she began to experience the pain. Contraction after contraction, the only thing she knew to do was call on Jesus. Her mom was by her side, while her dad waits in the waiting room, and Jesus sitting high, looking low soothing all the pain. Finally she 's in the room and her doctor was not on duty.
What conceit. I was his instrument, his animal.” (Kingsolver 89) She realizes that after all this time that her husband never really truly cared for her. His mission was to spread his word of God and to “help” people in his own way.
When she was a kid she probably still worked a lot and when she was five she was hired to take care of people. When she was seven she was hired to collect muskrats from traps. Then she was weak and collapsed. When she was eight she was hired to work in another household.
She worked hard to make sure she would not be the victim of life and being able to not be destroyed by life portrays the strength
Change. Many people are scared of change, and many are eager for it. This is what causes disputes among those with different opinions about change. Whether it 's an issue from decades ago or weeks ago people will start to want action. After all isn 't it time for revolution?
Without God’s word clinging to her day and night, she would not have been able to stay as spiritually and emotionally strong as she had. Through the Bible, she had learned how to judge a person’s character based on their actions and this helped her with deciding who she could trust in her life. In ProQuest it states, such knowledge is vital to moral judgement, since ultimately a person must take responsibility for having a good or bad character (3). She also puts the cruel past of abuse behind her and focused on what was best for herself and her two children. With being a young woman with two children, she had no choice but to ask for help.
For starters, she works her full hours. When she became part of the crew, she was working on hand and foot to fill in for Zachariah. Page 140 states, “To work meant to live. And work we did for upwards of three hours. Then we were released.”
Job loses his ten children, all of his livestock, and his servants. On the other hand, Prometheus loses everything when he gets chained to the rock, including his life at the end of the story. Although the stories are about two different men and two different events they still have some events that make them
All of the characters are specified to have jobs, with the exception of James, since this fits in with his “free” image. For example, in A, John and Mary have “worthwhile and remunerative jobs” and Mary “met [John] at work” in C. This over-emphasis on work reflects peoples’ feeling of obligation to get a job in order
In the psychological community, behavior is thought to be heavily influenced by situation as well as inner character. This extends to the psychological and moral aspects, as Pauline Hopkins so eloquently states. They say the best way to see what a character is truly made of is to break them. In The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck deftly executes this by putting each and every character through rigorous trials and tribulations. Some rise up to meet the challenge head on, while others fade away.
Firstly, he murdered her father, although it wasn’t on purpose, it still absolutely crushes her and she will never be the same. Also according to Document D (“ I did love you once. Indeed, my lord, you made me believe so. You should not have believed me…. I loved you not; I was the more deceived.
It also shows how even after all of these horrible things had to happen and how her family had to be split apart, she still thanked God for all of the good times she had with her
In John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath the theme of comparing the rich and poor occurs consistently throughout the book. On page 266 when Casy spoke about the rich man with a million acres, he made a statement about even though he owns so much land and has so much money, he may feel poor inside. Steinbeck uses repetition by restating the word “poor” many times allowing the reader to comprehend how the word ‘poor” means more than just the lack of money. He also compares the rich man and Mrs. Wilson. The man being who everyone desired, rich and owning a lot of land.
Mrs. Tall in the story The Tall Woman and Her Short Husband should be a big role model for any “diverse" person single or married. Being a role model to all people can change a person’s life you will see this at the last paragraph how the thinking of the tailor’s wife was changed. The patience, devotion, stress, and hospitable traits of Mrs. Tall make her a divine seamless person to describe. The first characteristic of Mrs. Tall is her hospitable attitude towards people.