Year Of Wonders
Year of Wonders is set in 1666 England in a small village called Eyam. The main characters consist of Michael And Elinor Mompellion and the heroine Anna Frith. After Anna's husband, Sam, dies a lodger named George Viccars takes up residence there and works at his trade as a tailor. I bolt of cloth arrives from London that is infected with the plague. Yet sadly even though Mr. Viccars died screaming to burn it all the villagers take all that they paid to be done completed or not. Hence the plague spreads feverishly fast throughout the community testing everyone's resolve when asked to take an oath to stay in the village to keep the plague contained. Soon after the plague sets in heavily witchcraft, greed, and madness begins to seep into the villagers spurring more loss. All is left up to The Mompellions and Anna to stem the flow of death and be a pillar for the fast failing faith in all the villagers' hearts.I believe Mr. Mompellion changed radically in the short span of one year. He went from a very pious man, strong in the faith. To a man who had
Now I see this having many negative affects but still under my superficial layer I wish it was still so. I got a couple concepts and ideas from this book. In ran through my field of grain with a torch. He was a abject to sin yet wound up sinning gravely in one of the worst ways of all. maybe not the same ideas yet I drew a good contrast between our world as theirs. So the only word I have to describe this book is WOW!. I recall the scene of Elinor's death vividly. I'm stilling trying to quench the fires and figure out where I stand. Where WOULD be our free will if everything was his doing. I can see and hear the scream of Aphra behind Mompellion. Ours is certainly better in most ways yet if we could combine that aspect of piousness in our lives we might all benefit. Sometimes we reap our own fruits from things we do be the fruit we reap a sweet apple or rotten pear some things WE do.
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