Silas Marner.

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SILAS MARNER

The Final        Chapter

By:

Mary Sotomi

Chapter22

       

    Fifteen years into the future with the world developing, places like Larntern Yard and Raveloe have been brought down and industries have been built in place. The children of most of the villagers in Raveloe left because they could not take the innovation while the others stayed behind, Silas Marner, Aaron and Eppie Winthrop were one of the people who felt they should not leave under any circumstances since it would be difficult building a new life elsewhere but accept the changes but learn to live with it for they may come to like it; the city with new houses and buildings, large shopping centres was like a new city reborn. The Kimble’s, Lammeter’s and the Osgood’s also decided to stay in the town and although Mr and Mrs Kimble died fourteen years ago and Priscilla Lammeter passed away two years after the Kimble’s death, the Osgood’s son; Gilbert still lived here happily married with a son. Raveloe was not like one of those barren parishes lying in the outskirts of civilization but there were plenty of lands that could be used in building structures. The air was quite dense and heavy in the streets at this region in the world. The sun had set and the darkness descending forth with a silence. Suddenly music could be heard from a distance coming nearer and nearer and Eppie was listening to the wonderful sounds from her bedroom window. She listened every night to this same group of people worshipping and praying in the nearby church. They filled her with peace in some way making her reflect and think more.

       

         She looked down on Aaron Winthrop; the man she loved, her husband who was sleeping on the large double sized bed. He had gorgeous wide eyes, black hair, full lips and a cheeky smile that he had on even as he slept. He had a gentle face and a straight nose. He was beautiful even in the dim light and Eppie thought so too. Aaron had worked very hard today in the nuclear plant and just then she thought how lucky she was to be in this position today. A partner who worshipped the ground she walked on, three excellent children, a comfortable home with all their finances secure and their children’s future intact. She could thereby honestly say that age 35 she had attained all she wanted in life. Piercing through her thoughts Emily came running towards her saying“ Mommy, Mommy the thunder… I am very scared. Can I stay with you tonight? She was giving her mother a sweet angel smile that no one could resist. Eppie didn’t blame her for being scared after all she is only four years, the youngest of her children. “Come here and give your mommy a big hug”. Hearing this was the only encouragement young Emily needed and immediately she ran into her mother’s arms hugging so tight as if afraid to let go. That was Emily, the most passionate among her siblings. She had her mother’s blonde curls and beautiful eyes, at an early age she was so stunning that you could envision what a magnificent woman she would become. She always had a smile on her face ready to comfort any body that felt bad.

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           Emily slept soundly that night in her mother’s grasp and by her father who was still asleep. The next day as Eppie descended with Emily down the stairs her other children; Ruby aged ten and Silas who was eight years.  Ruby had black eyes and her hair was chestnut brown, she was middle height and thin but so were they all in the house. No matter how any one of them ate they never gained weight so one could say it was a genetic thing. Silas on the other ...

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