I have to be honest and say this assessment made me read the story a few times. Every time I reread the story I had to try to see another character point of view. I had to imagine what the back story was, what is not being said, what is the true meaning of each word being written and spoken in the story. Here are a few things that caught my attention.
First, I still believe that the Sorcerer saw something special in Allan. And that he also saw Allan eagerness to please as a potential harm. At the begging of the story the narrator explains this eagerness, “Allan loved the Sorcerer, especially the effects of his craft, which comforted the sick, held back evil, and blighted the enemies of newly freed slaves with locusts and bad health”. (Page …show more content…
The Sorcerer went as far to say,“What I know has worked I will teach. There is no certainty these things can work for you, or even for me, a second time. White magic comes and goes”. (Page 130) If I dissect this passage, the Sorcerer is telling Allan that they are just gods instruments and he is the one with the plane. That they can try and hope, but at the end of the day the Sorcerer and Allan are just humans that can only have good intentions. And I believe that the Sorcerer was reinforcing this point when he praised Allan after healing Ester Petter. Yet, there was more meaning to the praising,“God took holt of you back there – I don’t see how you can do it that good again.”(Page …show more content…
That yes, Allan may have said the words and worked the craft, but it was not him doing the healing. It was a higher power doing the healing and creating the miracle. And the part “I don’t see how you can do it that good again” was a direct way of saying god may have graced you today, but that is not a guarantee that every time you work the craft that he will be present with you. The Sorcerer wanted to reinforce that point he made at the beginning of the story that no matter how many times they said the words or work the craft it will not have the same results every time. This is like life we can study, do our homework, do are the best we can at school, work, and even with our family but there is no guarantee for tomorrow. And we can only hope that all our hard work will give us fruit in the
First, I still believe that the Sorcerer saw something special in Allan. And that he also saw Allan eagerness to please as a potential harm. At the begging of the story the narrator explains this eagerness, “Allan loved the Sorcerer, especially the effects of his craft, which comforted the sick, held back evil, and blighted the enemies of newly freed slaves with locusts and bad health”. (Page …show more content…
The Sorcerer went as far to say,“What I know has worked I will teach. There is no certainty these things can work for you, or even for me, a second time. White magic comes and goes”. (Page 130) If I dissect this passage, the Sorcerer is telling Allan that they are just gods instruments and he is the one with the plane. That they can try and hope, but at the end of the day the Sorcerer and Allan are just humans that can only have good intentions. And I believe that the Sorcerer was reinforcing this point when he praised Allan after healing Ester Petter. Yet, there was more meaning to the praising,“God took holt of you back there – I don’t see how you can do it that good again.”(Page …show more content…
That yes, Allan may have said the words and worked the craft, but it was not him doing the healing. It was a higher power doing the healing and creating the miracle. And the part “I don’t see how you can do it that good again” was a direct way of saying god may have graced you today, but that is not a guarantee that every time you work the craft that he will be present with you. The Sorcerer wanted to reinforce that point he made at the beginning of the story that no matter how many times they said the words or work the craft it will not have the same results every time. This is like life we can study, do our homework, do are the best we can at school, work, and even with our family but there is no guarantee for tomorrow. And we can only hope that all our hard work will give us fruit in the