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A Touching Story (touches the heart)!
Sep 29, 2005 04:31 PM 7756 Views
(Updated Sep 29, 2005 04:33 PM)

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Silas Marner was written by George Eliot. I first read the book when I was in school. I remember weeping as I read it. My mother thought I was pretending to read (she never thought a book can make a person weep) and was concerned. It actually touched by little heart then :).


At a later age I was curious to know about the man who wrote a book that touched my heart so much. It was then I discovered that George Eliot was actually a woman named Mary Ann Evans. In those days (early 19th century) the women were not encouraged to study become educated. They were supposed to play the roles of housekeeper and raise families. Women were not taken seriously as writers in those days and so she used the pseudonym of George Eliot.


The Story


Silas Marner is the story of a disillusioned man who was unjustly evicted from his home village and forced to move to another village. He feels that he is cheated by man and God. He shuts himself off from society and is described to be a grim solitary figure who spent all his time weaving. He loves to live an isolated life and does not communicate with anyone. He also does not visit the church (even on Sundays). He does not spend money and shoos away people and children who come near his house. Slowly, he becomes known as a miser. He accumulates plenty of money through his weaving and stores his hard earned money and counts them every day without fail. But people get an impression that he is rich but does not spend his money.


One day his money is stolen. Poor Silas becomes distraught but he soon finds a blond haired new-born baby girl outside his front door. He first asks around and then brings the child home and takes care of her. He named the baby Eppie and claimed her as his own. He was an excellent father. Eppie is the only soul who lifts him out of loneliness and she also teaches him to make friends with the people. The other main characters are the Cass family, local Squire and his two sons, who are scoundrel. The younger son (Dunstan ) is into gambling, vanishes mysteriously (a little after Silas looses his gold). The older son (Godfrey) is worse, as he pretends to be moral and a good citizen. Godfrey is being blackmailed by his spendthrift brother Dunstan.


Sixteen years later and we meet a very different Silas, one who is now a truly human in the sense of being a social animal, who is loved, and has an object of love in his daughter Eppie. Eppie is engaged to be married to the nice and handsome lad named Aaron Winthrop. A pond near Silas' cottage is drained, and the skeleton of a human with two bags of gold coins is found.


As the book proceeds, the pace of the story gains momentum and the connection between all the characters becomes apparent. The plot develops slowly but intricately and we see interesting side characters revolving round the main plot. You are taken through various emotional stages--Silas unjustly being forced to flee is village, his days in loneliness, his despondency at losing his savings, his enlightenment at finding Eppie, his fear of loosing his Eppie, and more!


The novel ends on a note that compels you to think that almost any thing can be viewed from an altogether different perspective. Sometimes we tend to be so myopic in our outlook about certain things and issues in life that we can not see beyond the obvious. The moral of the story is two fold.


1) When things get tough, another door always opens!


2) Don’t make opinions based on just want you feel you see and what you feel you have seen. Take together all possible considerations regarding that issue and make a thoughtful decision.


The end of the novel is quite exciting when Eppie's real father turns up to claim his daughter and Eppie is forced to choose between Silas and her real father. What does Eppie do? Who is her father? Whom does she choose to be with? Why was Godfrey blackmailed by Dunstan? Who’s skeleton was found in the pond? To know it all, read the book.


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