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Relationship Between Stories
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The Relationship between Stories and Their Sources
Most authors use some type of source when writing a story.
The source could be religious, scientific, or something else that
is inspiring to them. Even great writers such as Shakespeare had
a source in which their stories came from. The source can be
used for many different purposes. A certain author may use a
source to show different parallels between two stories or to show
similarities between events or characters. They may use the
source to prove a point or to add meaning to the book. The
source could also just be an ambiguous connection that helps
complete the story. Whatever the authors reason for picking a
certain source it seems to give the story completion and
significance. In this class, we read many stories in which the
source deals with religion and especially the gospels. In this
paper, I will discuss these different stories and how they relate
to their religious
sources.
The first story we read in class was, ЃgA Visit of CharityЃh
by Eudora Welty. In this story, the source that is eluded to is
the Genesis story of Adam and Eve. The story begins with Marian,
a young campfire girl, who is on her way to an Old LadiesЃf Home.
Before entering the home she stops by some prickly shrubs. The
outside of the home was covered by beautiful shrubbery and the
whitewash brick building reflected the sunlight. Yet, the inside
of the home was in bad shape. It smelled musky and the linoleum
on the floor was bulging up. The details Welty adds are
significant because it shows two different worlds. The one world
Marian still sees which is beautiful like the Garden of Eden and
the world she is slowly stepping into where things are not
beautiful and good. The story continues with Marian visiting two
old ladies who fought between themselves the whole time she was
there. Marian did not want to be at the home and especially
dislike visiting these two ladies. Although, the one lady was
friendly to Marian she was still scared of both ladies. At the
end of the visit the one lady grabs MarianЃfs arm and asks her for
a penny or a nickel. Marian runs from the old lady without
looking back. When she gets outside she grabs the apple she hid
in the prickly bushes on her way into the Home. As she jumped
onto the bus Marian took a big bite of the apple. This is the
most significant part of the story because it shows how Marian
knew what she was doing was wrong but she carelessly did it
anyway. She hid the apple in the beginning so the old ladies
would ask her for it and the only reason Marian went to the Home
to begin with was to get points for Campfire girls. Her eating
the forbidden fruit signifies that she knew it was wrong just
like Eve in the Genesis story. Eve took the forbidden fruit and
her eyes were open just like MarianЃfs were open after her visit
with the two old ladies at the home.
In the book, ЃgThe Lion, The Witch, and The WardrobeЃh the
source is the Passion story. C.S. Lewis makes this source the
framework of his whole story. The story begins with two brothers
and two sisters who were sent to an old professors house to live
because of air-raids in London. While exploring the professors
grand house Lucy discovers a magic wardrobe that leads to the
land of Narnia. At first, no one believes Lucy really went to
Narnia. They thought Lucy was just make-believing or lying about
the magic wardrobe.
One day, when they were playing hide and go seek, Edmund
ended up in the wardrobe where he also found Narnia. Here he met
the cold-hearted witch that Lucy was warned about by Mr. Tumnus.
Yet, the witch was nice to Edmund and gave him magical Turkish
Delight to eat. The only reason she did this was to get him to
bring his sisters and brother to her, so that she could kill them
before they had a chance to take over the thrown. When Lucy and
Edmund return to the house Lucy tells everyone that Edmund was in
Narnia too but he denies it and makes her look like a fool.
When all the children finally end up in Narnia they all
decide to stay and try to find Mr. Tumnus who was turned to stone
by the queen for not turning Lucy over to her. While making
plans to meet king Aslan and save Mr. Tumnus Edmund slips away to
tell the queen of the plans. This is significant because it shows