With the kingdom under attack both from within and without, can Elinor and Maxim overcome the deceit spinning around them? Or will it destroy their love once and for all?įull disclosure: If Jody Hedlund writes a medieval book I'm reading it. until she learns he has been unwillingly drawn into Rasmus’s scheme to take control of the throne. Reunited with Elinor, once his closest friend, Maxim is quickly enamored with her even though he can never be considered a prospect for her husband.Įlinor’s feelings for Maxim are rekindled too. With aspirations to become the wisest man in the land, Maxim is summoned home by his father Rasmus, a Royal Sage. As she comes of age, she must choose a husband to rule beside her, but she struggles to make her selection from among a dozen noblemen during a weeklong courtship. Having been raised by her childless aunt and uncle, the king and queen, Princess Elinor finds herself the only heir to the throne of Norvegia. Ī princess in need of a husband, a young Sage who cannot have her, and a web of deceit that threatens their love.
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Neither can one the the most talented and kind person in my life. Two of the smartest people I’ve met can’t spell at all. It took me too many years to bring this compassion I had for my loved ones, to a larger empathy for people in general. I’ve witnessed how hard they worked and how hard they cried when work wasn’t enough. People are ruthless with French.)Īt the same time, many people I love have trouble with language, spelling, syntax, writing. (And the equivalent in French, which is the language I grew up with. So often I’ve seen comments mocked for mixing your and you’re or its and it’s. One of the mistakes I made, and that I see many other people make, is to equate bad spelling with low intelligence, or lack of education. So, naturally, I became a language snob kid, who evolved into a language snob teenager. It just comes naturally to me, words make sense, I never had to make an effort (if one doesn’t count voraciously devouring books since age 6). Although Solomon tried to become a part of this community, his individual goal to return home was above the collective values. These people helped each other because they belonged to the same group. However, his counterparts on the plant had a collective mindset, imprinted in them since childhood, that slavery is normal. Specifically, the main character never identified himself as an enslaved man and continued claiming he was a free citizen (McQueen, 2013). Since the movie was based on a real story, it indicated that slaveholders had different characters, but all had the wrong perception of race.Īlthough 12 Years a Slave is a film about slavery, the issues of collectivism and individualism are also raised. The former was kind and religious, while the latter was cruel and sadistic. The two masters that Solomon had were William Ford and Edwin Epps (McQueen, 2013). However, the fact that Northup was an African American made these individuals believe that they had the right to withdraw their freedom. Before they met, Solomon and these two slave traders belonged to the same middle class. However, he was abducted by two white men, who tortured the man and sold him into slavery, changing his name to Plat. The movie starts with the story of a free African American violinist Solomon Northup, living with his family in Saratoga, New York (McQueen, 2013). The two main ethnic groups presented in this film are White and African Americans, and the three social groups are affluent slaveholders, working for middle class, and enslaved people. |