This novel Ellen Foster is a very unique piece of literature that conveys meaning and peace to people's hearts. It is a very tasteful novel, if you like the sentimental way of life, and all the trials that this little girl went through. The author, Kaye Gibbons, is a very unique, well, creative person. I can tell that just by reading her work. She feels that there is a message that someone can get out of her novels, so I think that it so great that she produces novels and then see publicize them. The Puritans are very similar to Ellen Foster, because of the way that their religion brought them up. In this essay I will tell the ways of the Puritan life style tie into Ellen Foster.
Ellen Foster is a little girl that is being abused by her father mentally and physical, but through it all she has faith that someone will come along and save her from this monster that she called a father. The Puritan life style is very religious based, because with everything in the 18th century (including the major historical thing that happened, the migration to the "new world" known now as America). They had faith, no matter what the situation was they would hold to their beliefs.
Ellen was a girl that had very little friends and her family was really didn't care that much for her since her mother had died and she was being raised by her father. Her grandmother talked down on everything that Ellen tried to do all, because of the hatred that she had for Ellen's father. Regardless of the all that bitterness that she was enduring from her family, she never gave up hope. The Puritans are similar in various ways, but one way really stands out. This is their belief of predestination of your afterlife destination, meaning that your destination of heaven or hell is already known before you were born. This also came with the terms of purifying Anglicanism. .
The novel Ellen Foster is a great way to analyze your life or childhood.