Literary Analysis Of The Book Of Martha

The Book of Martha
1) Summary Martha was called upon by God and given an opportunity as well as a huge burden, with the world in her hands, to improvise the many problems in the human society. He tells her to keep three people, Jonah, Job, and Noah, in mind and tells her about the failures of other messengers he sent where human’s would simply twist words from God and continue on a path towards self-destruction. After long thought, Martha came up with the idea for people to have a perfect, and heaven-like experience in their dreams, since a satisfaction for the entirety of the worlds would only last for a few short moments in the real world. However, God warns her about the risks of her solution, such as the urge for suicide, because of the
The author uses literary devices to tell the story of an encounter with God, makes for an unique story. Furthermore, the author chose to portray God as a round and realistic character who emits humanlike emotion, this lightens up the story and shifts the focus to Martha, a dynamic character who develops into a relationship with a figure that was first regarded as such a distant figure from her. For example, when Martha first saw God, she described him with awe, “The comfort of her small disorderly house was gone, and she was standing before this amazing figure who had convinced her at one that he was God-or someone so powerful that he might as well be God,” (190, Butler). Before separating with God, Martha had a completely different description of him, “she stepped to God and hugged her--hugged her hard, feeling the familiar woman’s body beneath the blue jeans and black T-shirt that looked as though it had come from Martha’s own closet,” (212, Butler). This shows that not only has God’s appearance and gender changed, but Martha’s interactions with God were also drastically different. Another example of the developing relation between God and Martha is that God used to be high up in his throne, “seated as he was on his huge throne like chair,” (190, Butler), and both physically and spiritually came down to earth as if as a guest in Martha’s
I personally connect to “The Book of Martha” because I took a yearlong theology course in eighth grade where I analyzed biblical scriptures. Therefore, revolving around a conversation with God make for a story that is both interesting for the reader but also shares similarities with the biblical stories. The two worked as partners and developed a bond with teamwork similar to our many experiences in the human world. God almighty, offered Martha an opportunity to strengthen her belief and faith by giving her a problem to solve as well as the responsibility of human beings. Therefore, I believe that the significance of the story was not the problems and solutions, but rather the process of solving it and how readers were shown has more significance to the