Lina

I found Lina's chapter to be particularly interesting.  Although it is not told from a first person perspective we get the sense that Lina is a very observant character in the novel.  She pays close attention to so may things, and has her own way of interpreting them.  She reminds me a lot of Magawisca because she does think highly of nature, and even at one point on page 62 it describes a story she told to Florens, and she uses an eagle and her nest in the story, but really it is about orphans like herself and Florens.  She assures Florens that the eggs hatched alone, but they survived because Florens and herself are surviving without their mothers.  It also was interesting to see how Mother-driven Lina is in this chapter.  It seems the way she treats and thinks about Florens is in a very mother-like manner.  She is worried for Florens because she cannot protect her on her journey, that she can protect her from men.  She sees an evil almost in the blacksmith that Florens is too blind with love to see, Lina knows she is being careless but she cannot convince Florens that the man does not love her back.  It is also interesting how much resentment Lina has towards Sorrow.  It is hard to understand why, because I have not seen Sorrow do much to deserve the resentment.  Although it does seem that Sorrow is lazy and does not do much work, and in the beginning of the chapter we saw that one of the things that Lina learned when she was with the Presbyterians is that those that are idol anger God, and that it is sinful.  Lina works hard, and when Florens arrives Lina likes her and cherishes her because she is a hard-worker too, but Sorrow is not like that.  Sorrow doesn't seem to have very much skill.  Lina even tries to convince Mistress that Sorrow is the reason that her children died, that Sorrow is pure evil and she cannot help it but she is.  It just shows how much Lina thinks the natural world influences the things going on.  Just like she thinks that Sir became sick and died because he cleared out all those trees to build a huge house without asking the forests' permission.  Almost like she thinks that the natural world is exacting justice on the family because they have become careless with it.