Word: novelization
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...maligned Core into a system with a radically different mission but an uncannily similar structure and nomenclature. The task force that crafted the proposal distributed a letter before yesterday’s Faculty meeting saying it was eliminating “Reason and Faith,” the most novel component of their preliminary plan for general education released in October. It boldfaced the words “moral reasoning” in a two-line description of a category on ethics, directly borrowing from the current Core Curriculum. And it kept several other components of the Core, including...
...Tracy Chevalier’s breakaway novel “Girl with a Pearl Earring,” the blue and yellow head cloth that servant girl Griet insists on wearing when she poses for her master, Johannes Vermeer, becomes the unforgettable element of allure in her portrait...
Ella has learned from her research that the blue color in her dream is that of the precious lapis lazuli pigment used in Renaissance paintings to emphasize the Virgin’s miraculous agency. And as the color recurs throughout Chevalier’s novel, it becomes a motif for Isabella’s and Ella’s own searches for agency...
...Isabelle, Switzerland will not be be the land of freedom for her children she has envisaged. Chevalier is not remiss in reminding us that young lives can end tragically. The novel suggests that every family has a skeleton in the closet. (Or in Isabelle’s 16th century equivalent, a skeleton under the foundations of the house...
...rather than ending on a sobering note of subjection to historical conditions, the epilogue closes the novel with a final incarnation of the color blue. Isabelle is at a crossroads, questioning whether to go forward, back, or remain where she is. A“blue light surrounds her, giving her solace for the briefest moment.” Blue ultimately represents the ability of Chevalier’s luminous prose to capture the beauty of the fleeting moments in her heroines’ lives...