5/1/2023 0 Comments Milo manara![]() ![]() The two next, Abner and Phillis, elicit very conflicting feelings, especially the latter, because on one hand you can understand why they're so shocking in their ways, but on the other hand you might dislike them for that same reason. Her eldest son, Elijah, is the most likable of them all and the noblest, not to mention the only one that is right in the head. ![]() But unlike Hawthorne's heroine, she's a really tragic woman and whose true story, revealed near the end, is a gut-wrenching one and can be really hard to read. The mother is a Hester Prynne type of "fallen woman," who carries her own "scarlet letter" in the form of a mark on her face, and lives in an isolated farm and is shunned by Puritan society from the town as she's never revealed the identity of the father of her four children. The Lewises are an interesting family, and very messed up, too. Instead, the focus is on the Lewis family, a single mother and her four children, and their vicissitudes that result from one of the Lewis boys taking the victim to their farm, which in turn becomes a battlefield for the English soldiers and the Indians. But although that's the opening plotline, it's not the central one. It's a gritty tale of conflict between English settlers in 1600s North America and Indian natives that starts when a white girl from the town is cornered by two Native young men whilst taking a walk and is raped, which calls bloody vengeance on the culprits. On one hand, there's the story itself, scripted by Hugo Pratt. I had to mull over how to rate this carefully, and, boy, is this one hard book to rate! ![]()
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