Year of Wonders Geraldine Brooks Online Information For the online version of BookRags’ Year of Wonders Premium Study Guide‚ including complete copyright information‚ please visit: http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-year-of-wonders/ Copyright Information ©2000-2007 BookRags‚ Inc. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. The following sections of this BookRags Premium Study Guide is offprint from Gale’s For Students Series: Presenting Analysis‚ Context‚ and Criticism on Commonly Studied Works: Introduction‚ Author
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The official dialect of Byzantium of the era was Latin‚ the dialect of Rome; be that as it may‚ its local people communicated in Greek. The Code of Justinian was composed in Latin. Be that as it may‚ after some time‚ Greek supplanted Latin as the dialect of the administration. Researchers never again figured out how to peruse Latin yet rather drew motivation from both the New Testament (initially written in Greek) and the theory and writing of traditional Greece. The huge administration of Byzantium
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This is the chapter in which the plague arrives at the village. How does Brooks imply that it arrives? • What are the symptoms of the plague? The Thunder of His Voice • In what ways are Anna and Anys similar? How do they differ in attitudes and values? • What happens with the clothes that Mr. Viccars had made? • Colonel Bradford is presented as a negative character. What are some elements that contribute to this portrayal? • The plague is first discussed at the Bradford’s
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What do you think caused the death go millions of Native Americans? The answer is plague. The Smallpox plague was caused by the exploration and encounter of the Europeans in the the Americas. Whenever the Europeans A a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a c a aA a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a c a aA a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a c a aA a a a a a a a
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THEMES Fear ‘The plague was a vehicle for unleashing the hidden fears and suspicions that governed the lives of the village.’ Do you agree? ‘Year of Wonders explores how fear can tear apart the lives of individuals and society as a whole.’ To what extent do you agree? “Fear was working a change in all of us”. What changes does fear bring about in Year of Wonders? Religion ‘Year of Wonders demonstrates the sinister side of religious fervour.’ Discuss. ‘Year of Wonders suggests that
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had been several outbreaks of diseases throughout history such as Plague of Justinian (541-542)‚ Antonine Plague (165AD)‚ Third Cholera Pandemic (1852-1860)‚ etc. The Black Death had been one of the most castastrophic pandemics in human history. It resulted in the deaths of an estimated 75-200 million people in Eurasia between 1346 and 1353. The cause of this plague is believed to be the bacterium Yersinia pestis. The Black Plague changed the world by creating a series of religious‚ social and economic
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cover you with his feathers‚ and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart. You will not fear the terror of night‚ nor the arrow that flies by day‚ nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness‚ nor the plague that destroys at midday. A thousand may fall at your side‚ ten thousand at your right hand‚ but it will not come near you. You will only observe with your eyes and see the punishment of the wicked. If you say‚ “The Lord is my refuge‚” and you
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Plague Notes Lifespan of yersinia pestis bacilli outside of living host: • In frozen cadavers (years) • In putrefying cadavers (a few days) • In ground (dies rapidly) • In micro-climate of rodent warrens (several months→ years) Urban cycle is important for mass destruction of urban ways? A flea bites rodent‚ and then the wild rodent will have some type of contact with a human. Or the infected flea will direct the person. INFLUENZA • Acute respiratory infection due to influenza virus
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was the most difficult for the boys in this novel is when they were left behind by the villagers when the villagers fled the village because of a suspected plague. The day after the narrator and his comrades arrive in the village‚ they are directed to bury a small hill of decomposing animal carcasses which are suspected to have died due to a plague. A few people from the village had already fallen ill and one had died. After one of the reformatory boys die‚ the villagers flee from the village in the
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heartbreak and disappointment life dishes out‚ there is one thing life did not bring upon us: racism. Racism‚ one of the deadliest diseases ever to roam the face of the earth‚ is one of the few inequities that man itself has created. Racism is the plague of the earth‚ brought on by only pure hatred. Why is it‚ with everything life already brings upon us‚ that we can’t all put aside the color of our skin? Not all people are racist. However‚ before we can have the chance to live in a world empty of
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