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This 3 page paper compares and contrasts two Scotish works: Smith's Consider the Lilies, and Gibbon's Smeedum. Examples given. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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that end, then, one finds similar elements in the works of Ian Crichton Smiths Consider the Lilies, and Lewis Grassic Gibbons Smeddum. And, yet, as the old proverb states, each
tells his own tale in a way that makes it uniquely their own, uniquely poignant and truthful. While the similarities are interesting, it has to be said that it is
the differences that define. "Her name was Mrs. Scott and she was an old woman of about seventy. She was sitting on an old chair
in front of her cottage when she saw the rider"(Smith 1999). Smiths short novel, Consider the Lilies, is about an old woman living in the first half of the nineteenth
century. Nearing the end of her life she has little material goods or wealth to show for her longevity. As the womans life unfolds in
a series of flashbacks and remembrances, it becomes clear that she has lived a life of sacrifice, based in large part on the religious Calvinist belief that her reward is
in Heaven and not on Earth. She knows little of the outside world, and has seldom had cause or desire to venture beyond her own village in Scotland. But all
of that will change shortly when she faces the threat of eviction. The change of character happens when she is told that the house she
has lived in for her entire life is being taken away from her and that she must locate to a remote and desolate place. Her initial reaction is that God
and the Church will take care of her and will not allow such an atrocity to occur. However, the Church, she discovers, is not as powerful as the government. Her
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