During the course of her H.S.C year at St Martha’s, Josephine Alibrandi changes her understanding of the people around her, the people whom she loves including Nonna, Christina, Michael, John and Jacob in many ways she never thought possible. Throughout the novel, Josephine or Josie to the people close to her also changes from a selfish, uncaring teenager to a caring, more sensitive young woman whose feelings towards others become more apparent and noticeable. Her life is turned upside down in one year, and she learns to change, and adjust to change in others.
Long before starting year 12 at St Martha’s, Josie thought of her long lost father Michael as an enigma. “My mother had told me about him once and once only. I’d never heard his name mentioned since.” When Josie first confronts Michael Andretti, the father she has never met, she is angry and upset, and wants to hurt him, like he did to her mother Christina over the past seventeen years. This feeling of anger she has towards him increases, and she feels a sense of rejection when she overhears him say, “I don’t want her”. I do not want to love her” She confronts him and they have an animated argument before agreeing to stay out of each other’s lives. However this is one promise neither can or wants to keep, as they are both too curious, and know that they wanted to get to know each other. Read more…
Robert Lee Frost, was born on March 26,1874 in San Francisco. Frost spent the first eleven years of his life in San Francisco until the death of his father. He then moved with his mother and sister in Massachusetts near his grandparents. As a young boy Frost played baseball, trapped animals and climbed branches. His mother filled his childhood with the Bible and Shakespeare. Robert first was interested in poetry at Lawrence High School where he wrote his first poem “ La Noche Triste, “ which was inspired by William H. Prescott. Frost also joined the debating society , played football and was in the head of his class. Because of his excellent performance in high school , he graduated valedictorian with Elinor White( his soon to be wife). Frost then entered in Dartmouth college, but didn’t stay for that long because it was to isolated and restless.. He then went back home to take over his mothers eighth-grade class. Although frost was teaching he still made time to write poetry. His first published poem was “My Butterfly : An Elegy.” He then went to go and find the love of his life Elinor White. Elinor had moved to New York to go to school . When Elinor came back to Massachusetts, Frost asked her to marry him and she refused and went back to Canton, New York. Convinced that she was the only one for him, he engaged in an printer and two leather- bound , gold stamped copies of Twilight, each containing five of his poems., and then caught the train to Canton and went to Elinor’s house and knocked on the door, and handed her his gift.. She gave him an unfriendly reception, and Frost was heart broken. Full of pain and feeling crazed, Frost set out to punish Elionor, and make her feel relent. He did all this by going to the Dismal Swamp in Virginia, but on November 30, he found himself back at home in Lawrence Soon after he got back he became a reporter, then returned teaching. Elinor then finished college and was working as a teacher at Frost‘s mother school..Frost kept trying to get with Elinor and before you know it on December 19,1895 they were married ansd had their first son Elliot. After everything seemed to be going good, Frost went back to school at Harvard in hope of becoming a teacher in Latin and Greek. Read more…
The stories that people today and people back in history have been taught about religion and the fall of Satan are relatively the same. God is the savior, the king, and the almighty power. He is an unseen leader whose power we worship, one who is of an understanding nature and blessed character. What we have been taught about Satan and his followers has never gone far from what the Bible has always told us. Satan is a dark character, a selfish, jealous, and powerless creature that tries to bring people to his hell and make them as miserable as he is himself. It would appear that Milton tried to disprove this assumption- it seems he instead portrayed Satan as a powerful, heroic and magnificent being. God can be interpreted as far and few choose to believe- dark, emotionless, egotistical, and unforgiving. Although this was not necessarily his aim, the way that he wrote it left it open to many different interpretations.
Milton’s word choices and his character development make Satan’s character an object of curiosity. The reader is swayed to be attracted to Satan’s appeal, if not his power. Satan’s character is strong-minded, intellectual, and at times, philosophical. Milton does not portray the fault of Satan’s fall on lack of intelligence, or weakness of character- it is more a simple acceptance of evil. Satan says, “So farewell Hope And with Hope farewell Fear Farewell Remorse: all Good to me is lost Evil be thou my Good,” (Milton, IV. 109-111). Milton summarizes Satan’s acceptance of evil best, saying that the profoundest Hell will receive a new leader, one who possesses a mind that cannot be changed. (I. 29-31) Read more…