The Lie of the Land :: Haydn Middleton Davids Story

The guile of the Land The Lie of the Land, scripted by Haydn Middleton, is a fable about protagonist David Nennius and his olden, present, and future. David tells readers about his past through sections entitled Davids Story, a narrative that he is writing in which he reveals secrets about his conception, birth, life, and impending death. Through this, we learn that David is the son of the thresh and that there is a woman who has claimed him as her own. This woman haunts him with the statement I know you, I have found you, and I will non let you go, and in the end, he will dance in the brightest flicker the dance of death at the gateway to Albion (p. 84-85). He constantly lives in this womans shadow and cannot know happiness with another, so by and by(prenominal) his is married to genus Melissa and fathers a son, Art, David knew that he would dance forward his time and that there would be more than one end (188). In this so-called end before the end, David found his 13 year old son being forced to give a man oral sex in a bathroom in a park, and, outraged, David kills the man. Soon after, Melissa and Art leave, and after some time, David believes that he is given a new beginning when he dumbfounds a man named Quinn at his allotment on top of the megabucks under which he had buried the man he murdered. In time, David loses assent in this false hope and believes that he has to die to atone for what he has done. This he shares with a girl named Rachel whom he meets at the Good Samaritan center. When Quinn and Rachel find Davids Story, they are convinced that it is the beginning of a very long suicide note, and the two intervene to keep David from taking his own life (154). Middleton, Haydn. The Lie of the Land. New York Ballantine Books, 1989. Ordinary PeopleOrdinary People is a novel about an adolescent boy named Conrad Jarrett. The story begins after Conrad has returned home from expenditure eight months in a hospital for attempting to commit suic ide after he was involved in a sailing accident in which his older brother Jordan was killed. In the accident, a storm arose while the boys were on the lake with their sailboat. The two worked to control the boat, but it tipped and they fell into the icy water.