“Appreciative” love is a function of the lover’s admiration for a feeling of aesthetic or physical qualities. It is manifested in a gift that is freely given, with no expectation of return. A Gift-love is independent and free of the expectation of reciprocity. However, Need-loves are exhausted once the need has been satisfied. It loves her because it needs her, and the need depends on the love. A Need-love is compared to an infant needing its mother. The talks received widespread criticism in conservative circles for what was, at the time, a frank discussion of sex and its implications.īefore beginning the discussion of the “loves” themselves, Lewis defines his terms and makes some distinctions between what are typically called “likes” versus “loves.” Clarity of language is paramount in The Four Loves, and the first categories are “Need-loves,” “Gift-loves,” and loves of “appreciation” (2). The Four Loves is derived from a 1958 series of radio broadcasts by Lewis.
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Her editor at Lippincott Publishers, Tay Hohoff, convinced her to pull out the flashbacks of Scout’s youth and refocus the novel around them. She originally conceived it as a novel focusing on main character Jean Louise “Scout” Finch as an adult returning to Maycomb for a summer visit and confronting the racial realities of her hometown in response to the civil rights movement it was to be titled Go Set a Watchman. Lee began work on what would become the novel in 1956 while living in New York City. The story told in the novel parallels two court cases that took place in Alabama but was not based directly on them: The Scottsboro Trials of 1931, in which nine black youths were tried for allegedly raping two white women on a train in north Alabama and a November 1933 incident in Monroeville in which Naomi Lowery, a poor white woman, alleged that Walter Lett, a black ex-convict, sexually assaulted her. The themes and issues raised in the novel remain relevant, and thus To Kill A Mockingbird will likely hold its place in public discourse on tolerance, justice, and humanity. It continues to sell around a million copies a year and is often ranked among the world’s best-sellers. The Pulitzer Prize–winning novel spent 88 weeks on bestseller lists, and by the 50th anniversary of its publication in 2010 had sold some 40 million copies. By almost any measurement, Harper Lee‘s To Kill A Mockingbird (1960) is the most important novel ever authored by a native Alabamian. Nothing can be claimed about Julian’s life since all that is known is what she mentions in her work. The beauty of the work and the complete lack of biographical information on the author has encouraged later writers and scholars to construct their own biographies for her based on ‘clues’ they seize upon in the book which are then linked to knowledge of life in the Middle Ages. 1605–1674 CE) under the title Sixteen Revelations on the Love of God in 1670 CE. Her book of brilliant, mystical revelations has intrigued and inspired reading audiences since they were first published by the Benedictine monk Serenus de Cressy (l. 1413 CE and, along with bequests left to her in wills, substantiates Julian’s historicity. Neither version seems to have been known during her lifetime, but she was much sought after for spiritual counsel and became famous for her wisdom and piety. At some point in the 1390’s CE, Julian returned to the work and expanded it to create the manuscript now known as the Long Text. This early version of her visions is known today as the Short Text. 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