The Outcast Weaver

The story of Silas Marner is a beautiful, eloquently told story which gives the reader a vived depiction of the period in which it takes place in a rustic village in England in the 1800s. The story evokes many emotions from the reader as well as teaches some moral lessons about life which are timeless. The author's overall theme is a powerful demonstration of the importance of friendship and love to one's life and the devatating, dehumanizing effect the lack of friendship and love causes.

Silas Marner, The Weaver of Raveloe, by George Eliot, is a fictional novel of what becomes of this once respected and esteemed young man, a weaver by trade, after he is framed for a thft by his best friend who them marries his fiancee. It is a poignant story which vividly demostrates the impact the lack of love and friendship has on one's life, and what becomes of Silas as a result of the injustices done to him.

Silas Marner, by George Eliot, is a fictional account of a frinedless, reclusive weaver whose only purpose in life is to weave and hoard gold. O once his hold is stolen, he feels totally lost without it. Then mysteriously, this beautiful golden haired baby girl comes into his life in its (the gold guineas) place which marks the "rebirth", the journely of Silas Marner back to humanity. This single event redeems his life through his love for the baby and his willingness to care for and take her as his own.

The story evokes a lot of emotion from the reader in response to the total injustice of what happened to Silas. First, complete anger as well as sympathy, for the betrayal by his best frined by framing him for a theft and framing him to get his fiancee. As is this was not bad enough, he is deemed huilty by his town, so feels forced to leave. This event nearly destroyed Silas.

He moves to a nearby village called Raveloe, where he isnot accepted because he is an outsider, therefore is not to be trusted.

"and even a settler, if he came from distant parts hardly ever ceased to be viewed with a remnant of distrust," (p.2)

One night after his gold had been stolen, Silas mistakes the golden- haired baby girl that crawled into his cottage for his stolen gold guines but soon realizes it is a baby girl. He decides to take care of her as his own child. Things begin to change in Silas' life, and this is the turning point of his lif... ... middle of paper ...

...In conclusion, the main theme of the book demostrated that without love, friendship, relationships in life, you are just existing. It shows the extreme powerof love has in life. Silas was so obsessed with his work, his only relationship was with his loom. The analogy made by the author depicts

Silas as becoming like a machine. Machines do not have emotions and Silas for al lthe prior injustices that befell him. It succeeds in its demonstration of the importance of love in life. It also succeeds in showing the reader the wrongs of judging people based on stupid reasons, such as "don't judge a book by its cover." It also shows the reader the importance of getting to know someone, not making assumptions based on what they do, their appearance or what they have.

The failure would be the author was overly verbose in the tellling of the story. A large portion of the book was really kind of boring and unneccessary to the story. But I owuld recommend the book. At first, it is kind of difficult to read dut to the language of the period and hte lengthy, detailed style of the author in her telling the story. But overall, it was enjoyable and I loved the happy ending.