Question # 1: What religious symbols and references have we seen between pages 11 and 32? What do you believe their significance to be?
While in the Gypsy’s house, the boy recites the catholic prayer, Our Father to himself. This is a prayer that Jesus Christ taught to his disciples. Another thing in the Gyspy's home that has importance is the image of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The significance of this prayer and the heart is to relate to the religious views of not only the Gypsy but of the boy as well. Each of them believe in God , Christ,and religion. Santiago believes that their purpose to provide safety and protection while the Gyspy believes they provide honesty and promise. When the boy is afraid of the situation he finds himself in, he is comforted by the picture of the Sacred Heart and therefore recites Our Father silently to reassure himself. The Gypsy makes the boy promise to give her 1/10 of the treasure, and to make sure he will be loyal to his promise she tells him to swear to keep the promise while looking at the Sacred Heart. Another religious reference in these 21 pages is when Melchizedek, the King of Salem talks to Santiago about Personal Legends. He tells the boy that Gods should not have desires, because they don't have personal legends. Personally i think everyone, including God, has a personal legend. A personal legend is what someone is meant to do with their life and how they are meant to do it. Each person has one. It is a persons destiny. When the King of Salem says that gods are not supposed to have desires, that is his own opinion. Anyone can have a personal legend, no matter how human you are or not.
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I agree with you on that everything, even God, has a personal legened. I like how you say even though both are religious they see religioun in different ways. I also like how you show how it is an opinion that God doesn't have a personal legened. I agree that we all have one somewhere, even something mightier then humans.
ReplyDeleteI like how you compared the Gypsy to god,in more ways than one. Very true, cant have a legend, without a desire. Good job!
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I agree with everything as well. I like the way you related the important characters (king and gypsy) and how there religious beliefs are so different but so true. I to believe that everyone has a personal legend and that was our mission on earth.
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