Comparsion of Christianity in The Scret of Kells and The Black Role

The Secret of Kells and The Black Robe are both movies that include interactions between non christens and christens but The Black Robe has a less violent approach and uses the interaction for economic reasons than The Secret of Kells who don’t want the interacted all but need it for there survival.
In medieval Ireland the people of Kells keep to themselves and don’t want any outsider to enter there home, because they want to protect their culture form outsiders. Which is why the people of Kells are building a wall around the city to protect the city. The outsiders are mostly violent people (which can be seen with the Vikings attacking the villages in the beginning). The people do need to interact with outsiders (Ashleigh) in order to get items for things that are necessary (krum krook eye for the book, the berries for the ink and the wood for the wall) but they don’t like that they have too. This can be seen with the Breaden Uncle getting mad every time he leaves the village, and in the beginning of the movie Breaden tells Ashleigh that she belives in pagen nonsense. The people of Kells later only let people like them in there home since they don’t want any non-outsiders in the abbey because they want to keep them and their culture alive.
The Black Robe however is a movie that is focused on the encounters of the Native Americans and the Christians; this can be seen with the fact that the whole movie is Father LaForgue journey traveling Quebec with Algonquin Indians. The Christian first came to Canada for the beaver fur, and for other natural resources that isn’t available. Their encounters are mostly for the exchange of goods or services to help one another. An example would in the beginning of the movie the Christians trade...

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...the natives see it as an extension of themselves while the French seem it as a source of materials.
The miners in the novel Germinal are people who work in a mine everyday and face hardships and get sick because of it, they survive on it by work and laboring it, the mangers on the other hand have it good in that they receive all the goods form the work the miners do but they don’t full understand the connection the miners have with the mine since they don’t work in it everyday. The miners get mad at this fact and create a conflict with it and starts a revolute.
Both groups need nature to survive but it’s the fact that each group interrupts nature differently that causes them to create a conflict. With the Black Robe it was the presit lack of understanding that causes conflict and Germinal it is the lack of fairness with the use of nature that creates conflict.