Dreams and illusions are not much more then a person’s ultimate fantasy or a
person’s ultimate despair. Some may be attainable, and some nay not be attainable. In
Flaubert’s “The Legend of St. Hospitator”, we see how the charcters’ dreams and illusions
come true, but what is more amazing is how they come true illusions. In the beginning of
the story, Flaubert decribes the kingdom from top of the
castle and works him self down. This is a clue to the reader for Julian’s destiny.
When Julian was born, a old beggar came to his mother and told her that her son
would one day be saint. This was her ultimate fantasy! Then the next day a gypsy came to
his father and told him that Julian would one day be a great and powerful warrior. This
was
his father’s fantasy! Both, his mother and father had been told what they wanted to hear.
But no one ever asked Julian what he wanted. During his childhood Julian was taught the
holy scriptures and was taught how to have courage. Julian’s true characteristics were
slightly lighted upon, when one day in church he saw a mouse and killed it with his hands
and just threw it away like nothing had happened. Then one day in the woods he saw a
pigeon sitting. He then took a rock and smashed it, then he started plucking the bird alive.
When he realized that the bird wasn’t dead he got mad and started choking it till it died..
This filled him with “a savage, passionate delight”. As the story goes, on Julian becomes
an expert hunter. Then one day in the woods, he was ambushed by a huge stag. Julian
attacked and hit the stag with a arrow in his head, yet the beast still coming refusing to die
till it accomplished its goal. The stag came to Julian and told him that one day he would
kill his parents. From then he never hunted again. This had changed his life forever. After
that he no longer did anything for pleasure or sport. His goal was to help people. He
formed a army that soon became known as the best army in the land. His father’s dream
had come true! After some time he married and refused to go to war anymore. Ocassionly
his friends would ask him to go hunting, but Julian tamed his temptations and refused.
The days after he found out how to make fire, he also made a spear. With this spear he could catch fish and cook them on the fire. he then sees a plane. Brian screamed and waved his arms up and down rapidly, he wanted the plane to notice him. The plan circled around the lake a few times and then flew away. Brian went to bed and hoped the next day would be better than this one had been.
...ass her house just to see her face. When he met back up with his sister Em, he asked her to mail a letter to Little Birdie stating to come and visit him because he had been very ill. When Little Birdie received the letter she immediately went to visit him but unfortunately, when she arrived at his home he died.
...writes. He makes sure that he knows that he is a nobleman but as time goes on, you see change in Antipas and that he becomes more humble and aware of others. He genuinely wants to know more about Luke and what his values are.
his life. He was able to reach a peace of mind from which he ended his struggles, and he
Julian of Norwich lived during a time of great fear dominated by economic and physical hardships, feudal era of control, fear of death from the bubonic plague, corruption within the church’s hierarchy and doubt and insincerity was rampant amongst believers. Living a simple existence she depende...
his dad as a brave man, "He was in the war."(154) and should be known for it,
Julian desired three graces to be gifted to her by God; “mind of the Christ’s passion”,” bodily sickness in youth at thirty years of age”, and “God’s gift three wounds”. Her belief was that if she was given these three graces she would be able to better understand God’s love and that she would be able to love him unconditionally in return. The reason she yearned for the first grace, “mind of the Christ’s passion”, was in order to better comprehend the sacrifice that Jesus Christ made for humanity. She desired to see the passion that he had, and to understand and feel his suffering. She wanted to be able to see and feel his pain as he did and to feel the same compassion as “our Lady and all of his true lovers who were living and who saw that time his pains”. She believed that if God gave her this grace she would understand and see the true meaning of the “Passion of Christ”.
had. He had a very hard and painful childhood. He was treated very harshly by his family
by putting wood they also packed the rocks inside. Then they set the fire pitch on fire and let it
Wright. The bird had been Mrs. Wright’s last resort of happiness; it represents who she used to be. This bird was very precious to Mrs. Wright, that becomes obvious when the author says this,“ Mrs. Peters drew nearer—then turned away. “There’s something wrapped up in this piece of silk,” Silk was not an easy thing to come by. Considering that the women come to believe Mr. Wright strangled Minnie’s bird, they make the inference that he did not treat her properly and she would not have been able to get expensive things like silk often. If Minnie wrapped her bird in silk, then it obviously means a lot to her. The women finally understand what happened to Minnie’s bird when they take a closer look at it, “But, Mrs. Peters!” cried Mrs. Hale. “Look at it! Its neck—look at its neck! It’s all—other side to. ”She held the box away from her. The sheriff’s wife again bent closer. “Somebody wrung its neck,” said she, in a voice that was slow and deep.” The women know that Minnie liked this bird a lot and there was no way she would have killed the bird. They come to realize that it was not her that killed the bird, it was Mr. Wright, and the bird was not the only thing that he would have been rough with. “When I was a girl,” said Mrs. Peters, under her breath “my kitten—there was a boy took a hatchet, and before my eyes—before I could get there—” She covered her face an instant. “If they had not held me back
family. When he was about eight years old, he had learned to stand up for himself and
knowledge he had and applied it to the problems he faced. He didn’t let the thought of being
No Horse to be a safe haven for him as he questions his identity. As Agnes states near the end of
arrow through his heart four times, and the bird flew north again”. This part of the story jumps into the
...nderstand that his decision to live strongly for his family, his country, and ultimately himself was the right way to live out his numbered days, despite being unable to put into words exactly why he choose to stay true to seemingly archaic ideals in the face of the obliteration of almost all who original stood for them.