Re: Salinger and children's literature

Maybe. I'd probably still think it was wrong :). Orual's father and
King Saul were both killed by others. Saul was killed by a David
loyalist against David's will, but at Saul's request -- but he probably
would have been either captured or killed by the Philistines anyhow.
Jonathan, Saul's son, died in battle, I believe. The next person in
Saul's line eligible for the throne was crippled. I don't recall how
Orual's father died -- was he betrayed by counselors, or did he die in
battle? Seems like it was a long, drawn out type of death but my memory
is hazy. Orual was the oldest daughter, the King had no brothers with
sons (that I remember, anyway, it's been awhile) -- so she'd be the
natural pick. King David was hand picked by the Top Prophet, Samuel, to
be king.

The idea of a parallel between the two stories is pretty good. I don't
like the idea that Orual and David placed themselves, through cunning
and their own effort, into positions of power. It's really only that
last sentence that I disagree with: "Both figures are wily rulers who
brought about their own surprising ascensions to the throne..."

Jim

Yocum Daniel GS 21 CES/CEOE wrote:

>I suspect that a reading of "Theory and the Broken-Hearted Reader" (found in
>People of the Book, 1996) David Lyle Jeffrey; might make that more
>understandable.
>Daniel
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>This one line was complete nonsense:
>Something very similar happens to Orual in TWHF; in fact an extended
>comparison of her coerced self-discovery and David's is instructive. Both
>figures are wily rulers who brought about their own surprising ascensions to
>the throne,
>
>Not the David and Orual I've read about.
>Jim
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