1. 1000 Acres
This quality about her character is not a quality she shares with Goneril, because Goneril is a very selfish person, a person who would refuse to accept such chores. In the book many people depended on Ginny's help giving her in a sort of way the role of a mother. She was like the centerpiece in keeping everything under control on the farm. She did more than what she had to for other people. On the other hand Goneril wasn't the centerpiece of anything, she didn't have to worry about many of the things Ginny did, her dad was the king and she had servers and a lot of power. Jane by changing the character of Goneril into a more helpful person helps the audience feel remorse towards her instead of the father. She was traumatized from what had happened to her earlier in life that she lost all respect for herself and grew up to be a weak person and to never stand up for herself. .
Moreover, when Larry Cook, Ginny's father got into a car accident while driving under the influence Ginny responded to such event in an unexpected way as she is to play the character of Goneril. She was worried about her father and rushed to the hospital .
since she did not want him to die. Once Ginny found out that her father was ok she said, "I know you are hurt, and I"m sorry you got into a car accident, but now's the time to talk about it. You are going to be in real trouble pretty soon, when the state troopers come over. You've got to take this to heart. You simply can't drive all over creation, and you especially can't do it when you"re drinking. It's not right. You could kill somebody. Or kill yourself for that manner". The reaction Ginny had was one of a caring daughter. She wanted to make sure he understood that what he had done was wrong and that he could get severely punished for his careless actions. Her reaction to the events was extremely different from the reaction the event would have gotten from Goneril.
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 ...