Seeker Of Heavenly Vs. The Characters In The Gift By Rosario Ferr

Seeker of Heavenly vs. Seeker of the Worldly In the world people rarely have the same interpretations of the same object; one person can take great joy from an object while someone can feel little to nothing at all about the same object. The same can be said about the characters of the “The Gift” by Rosario Ferré. There are two characters that couldn’t be more different in their view of the convent in which they reside. The one character is Carlotta Rodriguez, a free-spirited teenager who cares little for the convents spiritual practice and went to Sacred Heart for the practical knowledge. The other is Mother Artigas, an older nun who specializes in discipline and seeks the spiritual rewards that come with working at Sacred Heart as opposed to the practical knowledge that the convent has to offer. Carlotta and Mother Artigas have …show more content…
While Carlotta’s viewpoint about the convent wasn’t negative, it also wasn’t something of much importance to her either. Carlotta seems to only want the knowledge that the convent offers in order “to help her father” and doesn’t view it as her entire world as does Mother Artigas. Also Carlotta seems to care very little about the history of the convent or with anything else that the convent has to offer except for “training in mathematics and science” showing also how she wasn’t there to better here spirituality, but there for more worldly gains. Since Carlotta only respects that of the world over that of the spiritual it would go without saying that she would not give Mother Artigas the respect she is used to, therefore causing a dislike between the