Kansas Rainbows Chapter 10 Analysis

Improved Essays
Growing up in Kansas, my Nana always told me the rainbow signified that God would never flood the planet again. In Kansas a rainbow means the storm is over, and if you’ve even been a Kansas storm you would understand the blessing and relief you feel when the storm is over. I still look at rainbows and am reminded of a love God has for his creation. A reminder that we are protected. However, I didn’t know the anger behind the floods until today, I didn’t know that God felt betrayed by his creation. The biblical quote from the in the book, really made me think “And the Lord was sorry that he had made humankind on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart” (Gen. 6.6).
These chapters, but especially chapter 10 really connected how God and sin

Related Documents

  • Decent Essays

    God likes to inform God’s people the plans of destruction and blessing, alike. Destruction of Sodom and Gomorah and blessing Sarah with a child at the age of ninety, are few examples. The Sodom and Gomorajh narrative can be exemplary of God’s anger and mercy at the same time. Also, it is indicative of God being all powerful.…

    • 66 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Discovery leads to unique renewed perceptions and new understandings, within Jane Harrison’s ‘ Rainbow’s End’ and Gwen Harwood’s ‘ Father and Child’. Harrison and Harwood present Gladys and Dolly from Rainbow’s End and the child and father from Father & Child as characters who convey the aspects of discovery of with the use of both symbolism and other language techniques. Both texts reflect on a feminine and a father and child context using the protagonists. In Rainbow’s…

    • 762 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The primroses has reached the end, and the ground soon became open and sloped downward. There was a fence separating this area and the area where many rabbit holes were. On the side of the fence where the rabbit holes were surrounded with green grass and not too far away was a brook. As the sun was setting in May, the rabbits were nibbling at the grass and looking for dandelions At the top of the bank, two rabbits came out of the hole. First, the larger of the two, Hazel, came out and sat down in the sunlight.…

    • 731 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Rainbow 's End: very renowned author, Maury Klein, writes The Crash of 1929. Klein perhaps could have chosen a more suitable title for this book, but it got his ideas and perceptions of the market crash of 1929 with an intense and gripping fashion. The book tells the story of the stock market crash, also known as “Black Thursday”. Klein is known to be an author of many books on personalities and institutions, which have often taken, center stage in American business, focuses here on financial events and trends leading up to the stock market crash. Klein is a professor of history at the University of Rhode Island who uses this book to introduce the journey of 1920’s through his vision.…

    • 1112 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    It’s December 1st, and chapter one opens up right away with a reference to the past, 26 years ago to be exact, “on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975.” (Hosseini 1) when the narrator was just 12 years old, that has made this nameless narrator, “What I am today.” (Hosseini 2). This event that occurred in an alley has haunted the narrator and how you can’t just simply bury the past because it always comes back to you. The narrator recalls a phone call from last summer from someone named Rahim Khan, which he says isn’t just a call from him as much as it is a call from his past of unatoned sins.…

    • 587 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In the first book of the Bible the original sin was committed. This happened when Eve, the first women, was tempted by Satan to disobey God and eat the forbidden fruit. She then tempted Adam to also eat from the fruit, and thus sin was brought into the world. The people in Year of Wonders believed that we are all sinful because of this original sin, and there’s not much we can do to improve from our sinful state. Because they believed that humanity was so sinful, they also believed that God sometimes punished them for their sin.…

    • 1573 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Firewing The novel “Firewing” by Kenneth Oppel is a good book for anyone aged between 8 and 88 because it contains a topic anyone can easily pick up. The main message is to be selfless and not question it and betray/bail on the person you are volunteering to help. The story started with Griffin & Luna beating their wings to stay airborne, they see a cave a cave they were told not to go into. Luna desperately begs Griffin to go in, he tries to tell her but she goes off anyway he follows her to make sure she is okay.…

    • 101 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    This passage is from the book Where the Rainbows Wait, written by Trent Jones and Carlton Stowers. Trent Jones shares his experience with his hypothesis which he calls “The Praise Method.” As a parent and a student myself, I was very pleased, and impressed with his teaching manner of employing positive reinforcement instead of only pointing out faults and mistakes a student makes. A child is with a teacher longer in a day than they are with their parents. Stating words of encouragement and connecting with the students on a daily basis helps with the children’s’ willingness to learn and pay attention to their lessons. Mr. Jones gives his account of using the praise method on a fourth grade boy named Rodney, who he recognized right away as…

    • 305 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The scene surrounding the man and women also had great significance because another of his main focuses of this piece was to depict a scene from the book of Genesis. The book of Genesis is the first book in the bible and is the story of God creating all life on earth. The book of Genesis describes the origin of life, which starts with a man and women, Adam and Eve. He surrounds Adam and Eve with many different symbols, which tell a story and create a visual masterpiece that enriches the piece as a whole. Every aspect of the image represents a greater meaning and has a symbolic significance.…

    • 1810 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Question 6: Poststructuralist Lenses An Absolutely Ordinary Poststructuralist Deconstruction The Text: An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow – Les A. Murray Poststructuralist theory concerns itself with dismantling texts through questioning truth and reality, contradicting itself until the meaning is unstable or non-existent. In the poem An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow by Les A. Murray, the notions of truth and reality are questioned through a silent narrator guiding the reader through a scene of a man publicly weeping. The truths questioned in this poem evolve from social and cultural mindsets about ostensible right and wrong behaviours regarding gender. However, to grasp a comprehensive understanding of the text, post-structuralism, and philosopher…

    • 729 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    There are a few ways to understand how this theme shows up throughout the book. Jesus ' own humanity is emphasized in the term “Son of Man” which…

    • 1585 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    One early spring morning Khroma the goddess of color set out to the city of Athens to trade colors with the artists in the city. Khroma was the goddess of colors, she controls and changes the colors of anything she wishes. Anytime an Athenian artist needed a new or different color for their creations, Khroma would supply them. The artist often traded a color for a more beautiful color, Khroma thought that was silly because in her eyes all colors are equally beautiful. Khroma descended from Olympus in her golden chariot pulled by two sets of white horses with colorful manes.…

    • 719 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The song Over The Rainbow is a very iconic song sung by Judy Garland in the late 1930s. This song was written for the movie The Wizard of Oz that is most likely where it gained most of its popularity and praise. The song has also had a very unique cover done by Israel Kamakawiwo’ole in 1993. This cover of the popular ballad was and is loved by many. This cover also includes a verse from the song What a Wonderful World, by Louis Armstrong.…

    • 1166 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Three important themes to consider when reading the Hebrew Bible are God’s relationship with humanity, humanity’s attempt to be like God, and humanity’s disobedience of God. These themes are important in any religious text because they are crucial to understanding the human condition and the purpose of human existence. Genesis reveals how God’s relationship changes because of disobedience, as well as how a desire to be equal to God motivates disobedience. This is important in how it explains the ultimate reason humans sin and how it affects God’s relationship with humanity.…

    • 1117 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Great Essays

    Old Testament Essay

    • 1963 Words
    • 8 Pages

    Many Christians today struggle to define the right relationship with God. We often do not believe that we need to follow God’s instructions or the words from the chose prophets in the Old Testaments. Old testaments were written many centuries ago. Christians nowadays often conclude that the instructions and words of God from the Old testaments are too old to be reflected with their daily Christian living in 21st centuries. Instead of ignoring the importance of Old testaments, we need to reinterpret in modern words and absorb the teachings from the Old Testaments.…

    • 1963 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Great Essays

Related Topics