Mattie Rigsbee is the main character in Clyde Edgerton's southern style novel, Walking Across Egypt. Mattie is a seventy-eight year old widow with two middle-aged children. Living alone in a small house, she makes sure that everything is taken care of. She cooks, cleans, mows the lawn, and takes up numerous responsibilities with the church. She is a very caring person with many friends and a family that loves her dearly. At the time this novel takes place, Mattie is at a turning point in her life. Confusion disturbed her, because the things that people are telling her are not the words that she is ready or willing to hear. Although begins to display some signs of aging, and her family is trying to convince her to slow down her lifestyle, Mattie's character and mind setting prohibits her from becoming the stereotypical elder. She must make a decision in which direction to turn. .
As Mattie grows older, she notices that she is beginning to display some signs that people in her state of North Carolina associate with the elderly. These signs are influencing her decisions about what she thinks she can and cannot do. She displays typical, elderly forgetfulness as she washes the toilet seat with mouthwash rather than with alcohol. And again displays it as she falls through the bottomless rocking chair. Later she displays physical inability when she asks her son Robert about helping with some yard work, which she had always taken care of before.
"I'm too old to keep a dog," (20) she says to the dogcatcher as he is leaving with a brown fice that showed up on her doorstep. "Besides, I'm slowing down," she says to her son during lunch. .
The stereotypes of the elderly are influencing Mattie's life. She is telling herself not to do things because of her age whether or not she is physically able to do them, simply because people associate age with inability and dependence upon others. Her family and friends are expecting and encouraging this dependence.
Like most civilizations, Egyptians put a lot of faith in gods. ... Early Greek art was greatly influenced by the Egyptians. ... Unlike Egyptians, the Greeks refined their techniques. ... In Segal's Red Light, we saw a man walking alone in front of n old truck. ... He seemed to be sauntering across a street at night. ...
Like most civilizations, Egyptians put a lot of faith in gods. ... Early Greek art was greatly influenced by the Egyptians. ... Unlike Egyptians, the Greeks refined their techniques. ... In Segal's Red Light, we saw a man walking alone in front of n old truck. ... He seemed to be sauntering across a street at night. ...
The Egyptians, on the other hand, were a very complex ancient society ruled by its religion. ... To the Egyptians, the sun god Re, travels across the sky everyday to shine light on to the people and the crops. ... The Egyptians were not a hunting and gathering society. ... The Egyptians were a highly scientific people. ... Unfortunately, and at the same time fortunately, there are not people walking around the planet in an eternal chase nor giving birth to the sun every morning. ...
This book first starts out on the land of Egypt. ... Now take this walking stick and perform miracles... Moses obeys God and goes to Egypt and brings ten disasters on Egypt. ... When Moses leads the people across the Red Sea he obeys the God and they camp across the Hahiroth and the Red Sea. ... Then hold your walking stick over the sea. ...
He is not only the leader of Egypt but he is a god. ... While walking around observing the men's progress, I over heard one worker as he consulted Paramesse, "Why do you let Nakhti push you around? ... "Come on you call yourselves Egyptians! ... I sat directly across from Paramesse. ... As I was walking along side of the draggers a few of them began to fall behind. ...
In Egypt, Amenhotep IV, his queen, Nefertiti and the boy pharaoh, Tutankhamen were ruling and the Canaanites were being enslaved. ... Beginning the 2.6 mile walking tour of Poverty Point, you are first directed to an overlook of the Bayou Macon. ... This ridge starts at the innermost ridge of the enclosure, runs across the outer concentric ridges, and extends an additional 300 feet beyond the enclosure. Archaeological excavations across this feature - called the Causeway - revealed it was composed of "loaded" earth. ... The walking tour ends where it started - at the visitor's center...
Every time he slept under this tree he had the same exact dream of a child telling him to go out and seek a treasure at the foot of the Egyptian pyramids. ... This lady interprets Santiago's dream as a sign that he needed to go to Egypt. ... When Santiago made his decision on seeking for his dreams he had to sell his flock and initiate his journey to Egypt. Across his way to Egypt he went through some adversity in which included thieves taking his money. ... They kept walking through the desert and when they were only days away from the pyramids, a tribe of Arab soldiers captured them. ...
