The Red Tent Interpretations by Lily

Hello again, and welcome to my second-to-last blog post. I know my title is a little misleading, but I did finish the book for this blog post, so I'm pretty excited! In this post, I'll quickly let you know what happens at the end of the book and then I'm going to move on to talk about one of the major ideas of the novel. In the last section, Dinah moves to live with Meryt and her family after Re-nefer dies. Meryt spends her time looking for Benia, the man who falls in love with Dinah when they meet in the marketplace. Meryt is successful, and Dinah and Benia get married. Dinah also reconnects with her son and through him, meets Joseph, her brother, again. He turns out to be a king, and they journey together to visit their father on his death bed. The book ends with the death of Dinah and her last word, "Selah," brings us full circle back to the prologue which also ends with the same word.   In my opinion, the biggest takeaway from ...

Hello again! This blog post is an especially exciting post because I am going to compare the TV mini-series of The Red Tent to the novel. Clara (one of my classmates who is reading The Red Tent with me) and I got together and watched part of one of the episodes of The Red Tent TV series. We tried to do the math (I know this is English, but we had to do it) to make sure that we watched the right part of the right episode. There are two episodes both an hour and a half long, so we figured since we just read the third out of four sections, the first half of the second episode would put us in the right spot. Unfortunately, it was not exactly the right part, and the first 20 pages of what we read were in the episode before. Given that I had to pay for the episode we were watching, I did not want to also have to pay for the first episode, so we just decided to skip it and compare the rest of the section we read to the part of the episode we were watching. While I did enjoy the part of t...

Welcome to my second post! In this post, I am going to tackle something that the other people reading The Red Tent  have already tackled in their last blog post: characters. This is a difficult topic because there are so many of them. Just in case any of my descriptions are unclear, feel free to reference their blogs:  Clara-fying: The Red Tent  and  Seeing Red (Tent) by JW . All the characters can be hard to keep track of because there are so many of them. In this second section, a great number of characters are introduced and the characters from the first section continue to play a prominent role. Because of the sheer number of characters, I am only going to discuss the ones that I think are most important at this point in the book. But first, I am going to put a picture of the family tree that is included in the book, just in case visuals help. (I also took this picture, so I don't need a citation) Although I said I am only going to discuss the mos...

Just a quick introduction - this is the second blog that I have ever written. I started my first blog last year, during my AP Language and Composition class, and it was about a nonfiction book called Race . This year, in my AP Literature and Composition class, I have the exciting opportunity to now blog about a fiction book. Fiction is more my thing than nonfiction is, so I'm looking forward to being able to read a fiction book for this assignment. The book that I'll be reading over the next month is called The Red Tent  by Anita Diamant. It from the point of view the daughter of Jacob, Dinah, and it is essentially the retelling Bible stories from the female point of view. (I took this photo of my book, so don't worry, I don't need any citations!) Immediately at the beginning of the novel, there is a prologue where Dinah addresses the reader. This is an interesting stylistic choice because I feel as though most books do not break the fourth wall and address the...