Symbolism, Imagery, Allegory
Setting
Yep, it really was a mess down in Potamia. Sorry.Anyway, Mesopotamia is pretty much modern-day Iraq, and it's where Dinah was born. It's also where we learn all about the daughters of Laban and the...
Narrator Point of View
No one ever said that you need to play by the rules when writing a book: we don't just get a central, first-person narrator; we also get a peripheral one. Here, let us explain. A first-person perip...
Genre
Pretty much all of the events that happen in this book happened in Genesis: all of the characters are the same, all of the places are the same, and the general gist is the same. Just check out the...
What's Up With the Title?
Well, there's this red tent that the women go inside of to do girl stuff, and the narrator's a girl, so she goes inside the red tent, and so, uh, yeah. Okay, there's a reason this book is called Th...
What's Up With the Ending?
Let's take a look at the ending, shall we?Blessings on your eyes and on your children, Blessings on the ground beneath you. Wherever you walk, I go with you.Selah. (3.5.194)Uh, think "selah" is jus...
Tough-o-Meter
All right, folks, even if you're not a religion buff, you can still read this book without much trouble. Though it's based on the Book of Genesis, you don't actually need any knowledge of the Bible...