Two Old Women Analysis
Connor Rolstad's Essay
Journeys in “Two Old Women” and “Charms For the Easy Life”
Journeys, life's main mystery, self realization and adventure. What is there not to love about a simple journey? Sure, challenges and obstacles are a nuisance for the character, but the purpose they serve in literature is central to the quest system. This summer the honors english class read 3 books in order to prepare ourselves for the coming school year. In the first book, “How to read Literature like a Professor” the class got insight into the mind of an analyzing reader. And we were introduced to the concept of quest as a basis for most stories. A quest consists of 5 main parts; First is the quester, or the protagonist of the story. They are usually a hero but can be an anti-hero if it suits the mood of the book better. 2nd is the place the quester must go, or …show more content…
4th, logically must then be the real reason that the person goes to finish the quest, usually the real reason ends up being self realization of something the protagonist didn’t even know was wrong with them. Such as a life question being answered. And 5th is the challenges and trials that the main character must overcome en route to the final point of the story. Now, the question and subject for this essay is comparing what we learned in HTRLLP to the 2 books we read and how we used the tips and tricks to understand the books better.
First let us look at the easier of the two books and by far the better “Two Old Women: An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage, and Survival” or as I will call it for the rest of the essay “TOW”. In TOW there is 1 main quest that shows throughout the book. We can start by identifying the main characters, in this case two old women from the eskimo tribe only identified as “The People”. The two old women’s names are Ch’idzigyaak and Sa’ or as I will call them ‘Chid’ and ‘Sa’. They are left to starve and die from the cold after The People run into hard times and food shortages during the
Journeys in “Two Old Women” and “Charms For the Easy Life”
Journeys, life's main mystery, self realization and adventure. What is there not to love about a simple journey? Sure, challenges and obstacles are a nuisance for the character, but the purpose they serve in literature is central to the quest system. This summer the honors english class read 3 books in order to prepare ourselves for the coming school year. In the first book, “How to read Literature like a Professor” the class got insight into the mind of an analyzing reader. And we were introduced to the concept of quest as a basis for most stories. A quest consists of 5 main parts; First is the quester, or the protagonist of the story. They are usually a hero but can be an anti-hero if it suits the mood of the book better. 2nd is the place the quester must go, or …show more content…
4th, logically must then be the real reason that the person goes to finish the quest, usually the real reason ends up being self realization of something the protagonist didn’t even know was wrong with them. Such as a life question being answered. And 5th is the challenges and trials that the main character must overcome en route to the final point of the story. Now, the question and subject for this essay is comparing what we learned in HTRLLP to the 2 books we read and how we used the tips and tricks to understand the books better.
First let us look at the easier of the two books and by far the better “Two Old Women: An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage, and Survival” or as I will call it for the rest of the essay “TOW”. In TOW there is 1 main quest that shows throughout the book. We can start by identifying the main characters, in this case two old women from the eskimo tribe only identified as “The People”. The two old women’s names are Ch’idzigyaak and Sa’ or as I will call them ‘Chid’ and ‘Sa’. They are left to starve and die from the cold after The People run into hard times and food shortages during the