Book Report of Silas Marner, by George Eliot .
What can you find about a weaver, who shut down himself from society, and he kept himself in his sorrow past until a golden-haired child was send to him? Silas Marner is a story about a weaver who has a sorrow past and happily present. .
The story is set in a village of Raveloe in England in the early nineteenth century. The main character in the story is Silas Marner. Being shunned from his town and church after being falsely accused of robbery, Silas forced to migrate to another town, Raveloe, where he lived as a weaver. Soon his reputation of knowledge helped him to forget his old, unpleasant life and to earn his nothing but gold. This all changed, however, when a golden-haired girl finds her way into his home and heart. Eppie is the blond-haired daughter of Godfrey who is raised by Silas since the age of two. She is the true joy of Silas Marner's life, she replaces his obsession with gold and brings him back to a socially active life. Godfrey Cass is the first-born son of the Squire who eventually married Nancy, his life-long sweetheart. Before his marriage, however, he fathers a child in a secret marriage with Molly Farren. This child, Eppie, is eventually brought up by Silas and knows nothing of her family until the end of the story. Dustan Cass, who is the second-born son of the Squire who always get into mischief. Eventually he broke his brother Godfrey's horse's leg and stole Silas Marner's two sacks of gold. However, he ends up as fell down to a stone pit and his skeleton was discovered sixteen years later.
I think the conflict in the story is that Silas Marner is the protagonist and his own self-imposed isolation and his sinful obsession with gold is the antagonist. The climax occurs when the theft of Silas's gold and the arrival of Eppie. From this point, his life has changed forever. I think the author wrote this story wanted to say that all life is not full of happiness or sorrow.
