1. 1000 Acres
Shakespeare's plays over the past years have been used as models for other books such as "A Thousand Acres" and , authors of these books use his plays as guides and alter them to become more up to date stories with certain apparent messages for the new generation. Jane Smiley, the author of "A Thousand Acres" used the same theme of the play "King Lear", however she changed some portions of the story that made it more realistic to our time. She incorporated scenes of child abuse and rape changing the message of family betrayal the play "king Lear" had. The changes transformed the story into one where the victims of the abuse were the daughters and not the father since their father abused them in disturbing ways. Jane Smiley changed the story to capture the reader while showing her opinion and concern on such issues that she thought were worth incorporating to the story. The sexual abuse of Ginny and Rose by their father Larry Cook and the affects of such harsh happenings were key aspects Jane emphasized on displaying extensive events showing certain reactions consequences of the abuse. Ginny the oldest daughter who plays the part of Goneril in "A Thousand Acres" is displayed to be completely different from how Goneril is in "King Lear" where she is not a nice person with many psychological problems. The character transformation of Goneril in .
the book is a key point, because it shows the changes her character had since she was abused.
As the book begins Ginny describes her daily chores. "I was cooking for three households-for my father, who insisted on living alone in our old farmhouse, for Rose and her husband, in their house across the street from daddy and also for my husband my morning at the stove started before five and didn't end until eight-thirty". The character of Ginny as seen in this quote is very helpful and giving. She says how she cooked for three households without complaining even though the amount of work was unbearable as she worked from early hours in the morning till night.
The book A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley, is consist of scenes that contribute to the content of the book. A Thousand Acres portrays a family that is broken a part by their fathers inconsiderate decisions and actions. ... The reader will realize pain and suffering that Ginny and Rose had experience while they were growing up on a thousand acre farm in Zebulon County, Iowa. ...
William Shakespeare's King Lear and Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres delve into the subject of father-daughter relationships. Both works of literature carefully examine the father-daughter theme, but, in King Lear, Lear receives the sympathy and not his sinister, evil daughters, Goneril and Regan, while in A Thousand Acres Larry Cook emerges as the villain, the daughters, Ginny and Rose, emerge as the heroines. ... Larry Cook serves as the Lear-like character in A Thousand Acres. ... In King Lear and A Thousand Acres everyone disrespects one another, which causes total he...
Throughout the novels A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley and King Lear by William Shakespeare, the two antiheroes experience similar conflicts. ... In A Thousand Acres, Larry Cook is an elderly farmer in Iowa who is distributing all one thousand acres to his two favorite daughters; Ginny and Rose, although he has a third by the name of Caroline. ...
A Thousand Acres William Shakespeare's works can be hard to understand for many young readers of today. ... In "King Lear" it is the Fool, and in "A Thousand Acres" it is the neighbor. ... The underlying story within a story in "A Thousand Acres" is incest. ... The screenplay of "A Thousand Acres" written by Laura Jones received mixed reviews. ... In fact, "A Thousand Acres" proves that Shakespeare's works are indeed timeless. ...
Jane Smiley's Pulitzer Prize winning novel, "A Thousand Acres," takes on many provocative themes as a late twentieth century version of Shakespeare's King Lear set in rural Iowa. ... My attempt to teach "A Thousand Acres" through chapter 4 provided me with a new understanding of how the family dynamics, the obsessions with materialistic values, and the distress that holds Ginny hostage shapes this novel. ... They hold eighty thousand gallons of hog slurry'" (24). ...
Back in the 1920s, one thousand pounds of hemp could be processed in a single hour. ... Hemp can be used in producing more than twenty-five thousand products. It has been used to make over five thousand textile products. ... Annually, one acre of hemp can produce an equivalent amount of fiber as two to three acres of cotton. ... One acre of hemp can produce as much as four acres of trees annually. ...
"More than five million acres of forests were sprayed at least once and at least ten percent of the trees died in a single spray."(Dwernychuk) Therefore more than five hundred thousand acres of forest was destroyed after one blast of the herbicide leaving the land exposed to high heat and torrential rain. Overall, Vietnam incurred damage to over ninety million acres of forests (www.worldwatch.org) including that which died after a single spray. ... More than two hundred and ten thousand acres of the hill sides were eroded due to the inability of watersheds to absorb water and the abs...
A 2.5-acre area may contain as many as 280 or more species of trees and hundreds more plant species making every square inch as valuable as the next (Amazon 402). ... The Brazilian government has decided to allow big business to cut millions of acres of trees in the Amazon River basin (Ghitis). ... In Brazil alone 5.4 million acres are lost every year. ... Many times hundreds to thousands of vital Amazon acreage is left burnt and crippled as yet again personal interest damages the future of our environment (Mirabella). ... Critics of this concept state that thousands of acres are still being ...