Doris shakes Hagar from her memories. Hagar is confused as to what time it is, and asks if Chapter 5. Considering fleeing Marvin and Doris, Hagar looks back on the last time she fled home—years ago, when she took twelve-year-old John Once packed, Hagar and John went into the kitchen, where Hagar told a drunken and swaying Bram that Now, back in the present, Hagar wakes up, recalling her plan, and stands up to dress herself.
She moves slowly, though—the As soon as Doris is gone, Hagar makes her way to the bank. As she stands in line, she is achy and With some help and directions from the bus driver, Hagar arrives downtown at the depot where she can purchase a ticket on another bus to At a small gas station store just next to the bus stop, Hagar stops in and buys herself some snacks—biscuits, jam, chocolate, and cheese.
After paying, Hagar starts After the driver drops Hagar off, she takes in the sights and sounds of the nature all around her, and Hagar comes upon some old abandoned buildings and decides to take shelter inside one of them, Hagar looks back on the past, remembering how she and John came to live at a John and Hagar had their own separate rooms upstairs, and Hagar used her early paychecks to purchase new Oatley had made his fortune Now, as Hagar falls asleep in her new little room in the abandoned building at Shadow Point, she Chapter 6.
Hagar wakes in the darkness, feeling groggy. Rain is slanting into the room through one of Hagar becomes irate and confused, berating herself for leaving home but also believing for several moments Hagar recalls more of her time at Mr.
When John was old enough to go Eventually, Hagar and John committed themselves to working hard and saving money in pursuit of their common John returned to Manawaka and wrote to Hagar only infrequently over the next two years, telling her little of his life there. John picked Hagar up from the station and drove her back to the Shipley farm, which had fallen Hagar went into the front room to see Bram, and was shocked by how small and Bram could Hagar went into town with John to deliver eggs, and there they encountered a pretty but Another day in town, Hagar ran into Lottie on the street.
Lottie said she was happy that Hagar had done One afternoon, Hagar asked John to drive her out to the cemetery so that she could see whether Chapter 7. In the morning, Hagar wakes up feeling stiff and sore. Hagar spots an old rusty bucket which has collected some rainwater, and she brings some water Hagar sits on the beach and eats some of her snacks, but quickly feels a horrible Hagar walks a little before deciding to rest on a fallen tree trunk and enjoy nature Hagar retreats into memory again.
Oatley to She gave Jess the John was drunk and nearly passed When Hagar told him that Arlene had brought him back, he remarked that though Arlene had long Hagar soon returned to the coast to work, but came back to Manawaka the following summer Hagar warned Arlene not to marry John, citing his poverty and heavy drinking. Arlene retorted that After dinner that night, John took Arlene home while Hagar sat up waiting for him to return, looking around the house and reminiscing about her John and Arlene had come home, and The next day, Hagar called upon Lottie to discuss the relationship between their children.
Lottie seemed to be fairly As a result, John and Arlene began conducting their affair somewhere else— Hagar suspects now that Chapter 8. Inside the greasy and dilapidated cannery, Hagar makes a bed out of some discarded old fishnets and eats some of her provisions She flings a small wooden fish box at it, hoping to scare it away, but As night descends, Hagar hears some dogs barking in the distance.
As they get closer and closer, Hagar grows The figure inside the cannery lights a match—it is a man. Hagar , believing the man to be a vagrant, offers him her purse, but he is just Murray shares his cigarettes and wine with Hagar , and she is grateful to have something to drink. Hagar thanks Murray for his kindness, Murray also tells Hagar about his wife and son, and their participation in increasingly strange religious sects which foretold Murray and Hagar commiserate over the fact that they have both lost children, and then after sharing some One afternoon, back in Manawaka, John came into the house to tell Hagar that Arlene had decided to go East for a year to work.
Arlene told John Every night for several nights, John took the truck into town. One night, Hagar decided not to wait up for him, but found that when she went to bed As one of the nurses walked Hagar out, she urged Hagar to let herself cry—but Hagar shoved the nurse away, determined not Hagar visited Lottie and Telford, but the visit was short, awkward, and painful for all of Hagar snaps back to reality, realizing that she is, at last, crying.
Murray comments upon how Hagar wakes up in the middle of the night feeling cold, ill, and nauseous. Her heart Chapter 9. Hagar wakes up in the morning, feeling just as ill as she did the night before Marvin is relieved that they have found Hagar.
Marvin urges Doris to shut up—they need to take care of Hagar , who is clearly suffering from exposure. Marvin asks Hagar if she can understand him, but Murray offers to help Doris and Marvin take Hagar out of the cannery, but they tell him he can leave.
Hagar allows Marvin to In the morning, a nurse rouses Hagar from sleep to take her temperature. As the kindly nurse ministers to Hagar , the old The scrawny, small woman in the next bed engages Hagar in conversation, asking how she slept.
Hagar says she wishes Marvin had gotten her a semi-private room. Her neighbor reveals that she Hagar naps, and wakes to find Marvin sitting beside her. Hagar is pleased to see him, Hagar overhears a sweet visit between Mrs. Jardine and her husband Tom, and is surprised by The nurse asks Hagar if she needs a pan, and Hagar replies that when she feels the urge to As soon as the lights are out, the ward becomes a noisy place.
Over time, Bram develops a drinking problem, which is aggravated by Hagar's constant biting criticism of him. Bram rarely shows affection to Hagar except in their nightly sexual encounters. He is also a distant and apathetic father, valuing his sons more for how they can help out on the farm than who they are as people. Bram and Hagar eventually part ways and only see each other again when Bram develops some sort of dementia, which develops rapidly and leads to his death.
Despite his flaws, the reader can infer Hagar still has a soft spot in her heart for her husband, sometimes talking to him as if he were still alive. Marvin is the eldest of Hagar's two sons. He is by far the more loyal and patient of the two, even though Hagar inexplicably favors his younger brother John.
Marvin becomes a paint salesman and marries a woman named Doris, who is Hagar's sole caregiver. As Marvin and Doris also age, they begin to find it more and more exhausting to care for Hagar.
Accordingly, Marvin makes the very difficult decision to move his mother to a nursing home, despite her protests. Marvin is portrayed to be a calm man who sometimes struggles to express his feelings, leading to sudden frustrated outbursts towards his mother or wife.
John is the younger of Hagar's sons. John is Hagar's favorite child and one of the few people in her life whom she holds in high esteem. This is perhaps because she sees in John a resemblance to her father, and puts hope in John that he will take after the intelligence and hardworking ethic of Jason Currie.
Hagar brings John with her when she separates from Bram and tries to encourage him to continue with school. However, as a young man, John moves back with his father and soon shows to take after him in his drunken and slovenly habits. John falls in love with a young woman named Arlene, but they both die in a drunken car accident.
The angel was certainly not a suitable statue to mark the death of Mrs. Currie as it was uncharacteristic of her. The pride inherited from her father causes her much trouble throughout life as it seems to be the main root of her problems. Her inability to show true emotion effects her a lot later in life and is the main reason she is unable to keep a relationship.
As Hagar looks back on her life she never realizes that she is being cruel to both of her brothers when Dan is dying. When their brother Dan is dying and needs comfort from his mother, Matt tells Hagar wear their mother's shawl and to comfort Dan before he dies. Unlike Laura, this was her own family she lacked sympathy for.
She never expressed any responsibilty about how her children were going to handle the loss of their father. At the end of the story is the only time Elizabeth expressed concern for her children Elizabeth realized the frightening possibility that life was just an immediate placement and that her reality resided in death.
Even though Laura and Elizabeth were uncompassionate towards the families, failed to call the deceased by their names, felt shame and had a life and death epiphany, both women had different stances and reasons concerning their actions. In Margaret Laurence's, The Stone Angel, the symbol of Hagar's mother's grave marker, a stone angel, is used to illustrate aspects of Hagar's personality. The stone angel is symbolic of Hagar's pride in the Currie name, her inability to show emotions, and her blindness to those around her.
Through the use of the stone angel Laurence portrays in Hagar a realistic and interchangeable character. Bibliography: Laurence, Margaret. In contrast to her negative character, Hagar exhibits a great deal of courage.
The next day Hagar cleaned the house inside out. Physically, Hagar did not lack courage. At the age of 90, Hagar was able to painfully endure her journey to Shadow Point.
Thus, her courageous character classifies her as a strong willed woman. She was deficient in physically expressing her feelings and emotions.
She also possessed an unbending pride, which despised weakness in any form. However, despite of her negative attributes she still exhibits a positive aspect through her courage. She may not be perfect; nevertheless she is unique. Please, follow these steps to do that in Windows:.
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