Secondly the rector Mompellions loss of faith as a result from the plague and lastly the towns people reaction to the plague as a punishment sent by God and the villages actions to punish those responsible for bringing it. Anna Frith is firstly portrayed in ‘the spring of 1665’ as a submissive servant working for the Bradford’s who has just faced the first tragedy of her life, Sam’s death. Life still continues as Anna knows she must support her family but she still feels saddened. George Viccars then appears in Anna’s life only to bring more sadness when the plagues comes and kills him and her children. Leading to Anna’s new strong self she battles many events over her one year of living through the plague.
The women in Eyam experiencing the plague in 1666 use their abilities to benefit the health of the community, and understand to keep the townspeople “above the ground” they must take action, while the men take a back seat through the plague and hope for the best. Instances like these are demonstrated a number of times through the two central women in the novel, Elinor and Anna, such as when they use herbal medicine resources in attempt to fight the effects of the plague to help the townspeople. Although at first Anna only came to the Gowdies for herself, “I came here not seeking herbs to help others. Only myself”, her admiration for Elinor and her willingness to learn causes her to cascade into the depths of finding a way to help others. Both Elinor and Annas ingenuity of thinking about helping the whole community to become stronger only reassures the audience of their dependability and kindness in such times when others need help.
Whereas, Aphra Bont transforms for the worst because her ignorance. In the novel, most of the characters become reshaped from the survival of the Plague, one of these characters is Anna Frith. Before the plague, Anna was ignorant towards the world, ‘I… wished to know how things stood in the world,’ and was quite isolated in her village. During and after the Plague, Anna changed and grew tremendously. She learned the value of herbs as medicine as she wanted to help those who were affected by the Plague as she had already lost so much.
Anna is viewed as a very heroic character even to the villagers because she is a "woman who has faced more terrors than any warrior". When Anna is faced with the death of her husband and both of her kids, although she finds it hard to cope, she only grows stronger and proceeds to help others regardless. We see Anna's changes throughout the book from key events such as her heroic attempt to save Mem and Anys when they were being accused of being witches and when she overcomes her fear and helps Merry birth her child. Elinor describes Anna as a spark which just needed to be let out, and tells her how bright she burns now. This shows Anna's growth into a independant and heroic person.
It was her second nature. During her twenty years of living in Lancaster as a good wife she become adapt at sewing and knitting articles of clothing for her family. As a captive, she put her skills to good use. Her excellent talent at needlework was also useful for establishing a favorable rapport with Philip, leader of the uprising. There even a moment when Philip invited her to his wigwam and even offered her a pipe, which she rejected, but we can see here that she was taken not as a regular captive.
It took two years for Clara to help her brother, David recover. During that time she learned how to “handle slimy leeches…. dress blisters and ugly sores.” After her brothers’ recovery, Clara regarded herself as useless and so she felt the need to help more people. She then looked for work and went to nurture poor, sick children during a smallpox epidemic. “She liked work where she could help others.” When the Civil War broke out, Clara played a major role in “organizing facilities to recover soldiers’ lost baggage and in securing medicine and supplies for men wounded in the first battle of Bull Run.
Secrets In Sue Monk Kidd’s novel The Secret Life of Bees Lily Owens is seeking to find the truth behind her mother Deborah Owens’s death. Since her mother’s death Lily’s life is incomplete, she hears stories from her father (who she calls T-Ray) about her mother but does not believe them. She has been living with guilt since that one night after killing her mother. T-Ray tells Lily that her mother ran away and left her behind, Lily believes he is just saying to punish her, and does not believe what he says. She says, “What if my mother leaving wasn’t true?
She was taught privately by governesses who were hired by her wealthy grandmother before she became a teacher. Horrified by the conditions in which mentally ill patients were living in, she called upon a reform for mental institutions in the United States. While in England she was recovering from her Tubercular condition. Her friends Elizabeth Frye, a prison reformer, and Samuel Tuke, proprietor of the York Retreat for Mentally Disordered helped her to return to health. She learned new theories of caring for the insane from them.
She created a new life for herself after learning from her mistakes. • It would be pertinent to mention the Great Burning, and how this final destruction of all things related to the plague, brings about the end of the plague itself and the opportunity to LIVE and begin anew. • The end of the novel mentions nature reasserting itself and regrowing in the village – this is a visual symbol for readers that Brooks believes in a rebirth for the town. Anna also mentions how people are rebuilding and forging new friendships – such as the friendship between Jane Martin and Merry Wickford. • The babies at the end – we move from Aphra telling Anna it is “folly” to love an infant, to Anna finding new life with her daughters at the end – “This is my miracle”.
With Abuelita having cancer and not having many days left to live the young girl wants to take care of her. For all the time Abuelita was there for the young girl, the young girl thought it was just the right thing to do, to be there for her. No matter what the young girl still looks after Abuelita and takes care of her. For instance she would help with Abuelita when she needed help. She would always go over to Abuelitas house and help her with different things such as, planting wild lilies or different types of spices like cilantro (Viramontes 1176).