Ruy Faleiro (cosmographer who inspired the voyage)ĭiogo Barbosa (Magellan's father-in-law) Selected Members of the Armada de Molucca Juan Rodríguez de Fonseca (Bishop of Burgos) King Charles I of Spain (later Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor) Selected Characters in This Book Non-Voyaging Characters Telling the story of a great and wily explorer who in the end was undone by his inflated ego and Overall Impression: A highly entertaining and suspenseful book Quotations are for the most part taken from that work, as Sir Edward John Poynter: Cave of the Storm Nymphs (1903, excerpt)Īcknowledgement: This work has been summarized using the 2003 William She seems to imply that she simply did not have the energy to face caring for an adult son who had become like a child again.Summary by Michael McGoodwin, prepared 2004 Later, Eva's explanation for killing Plum again raises the question of whether such strong love is entirely positive.
Perhaps there is a parallel between her love and the consuming nature of his addiction. In the end, her love was so powerful that it literally consumed him.
She expected him to fulfill her dreams, but he failed. She cannot accept him as a drug addict because she had informally considered Plum her heir. The pressure of a parent's responsibilities would threaten her independence, but her intense love for Plum threatens his very existence. Moreover, the responsibility for caring for him would fall on her. She would have to face a great suffering if forced to watch Plum descend further into his heroin addiction. Eva clearly loved Plum best of her three children. Eva gave her youth to raise her children and sacrificed a leg to provide them with a home and a steady supply of food. Loving another person can threaten the boundaries of his or her identity and personality. Morrison here makes the point that love is not merely a force for good she argues that it is rather simply a powerful force, without moral attachments, and as such it can cause people to act in both selfless and selfish ways. But love can also be a threatening force: Eva is unable to bear the prospect of watching her son sink ever deeper into heroin addiction, and so, because she loves him so powerfully, she kills him. Love provides the impetus through which a mother will do anything to protect and care for her children, just as Eva gave her leg to make sure her children were well housed and fed. What are some possible reasons for Eva's decision to kill Plum? How was the act both one of sacrifice and selfishness? How do her actions address the ambiguous blessings of a mother's strong love for her children?Įva's actions imply that it is possible to stifle or smother another person with too much love.
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