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Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

Name: Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ scores 54 — Live Historic
Item: Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Rating: 54
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54Watch it awake.

Skip the movies; Wallace's race is the hook and Christ stays off to the side.

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The review

Lew Wallace's book is from 1880. It is not the 1907 reel, not the 1925 film, and not the 1959 film, no matter how many times a relative brings up the race they saw. A prince is betrayed, sent to the galleys, and comes back for a chariot race. Christ is at the edge of the story, not the hero of the plot. The race is the spectacle. The faith is the frame.

I can read it in pieces after the kids are down, and the rest of the house can too. It was a huge seller, and I won't turn that into a number nobody audited. If we start it, I want them to know they are in a novel with a religious border, not in a picture where the horses are the whole point.

Journal

Keep Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 54. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Temperance are the thin ones.

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

Middlemarch

66 instead of 54

Middlemarch is still a novel film, and it scores 66 instead of 54. What you gain is household: Dorothea is wanted as a secretary, and a bad marriage has a bill.

The eight

5
Industry
Galleys are forced labor; the chariot race is spectacle, not a living.
4
Household
A prince is betrayed and sent off; no marriage is the life of the plot.
7
Piety
Christ stays at the edge, the faith as frame and not the hero of the plot.
7
Courage
Betrayed and sent to the galleys, he comes back for the race.
5
Republic
Rome can send a prince to the galleys; the race does not repair that.
4
Temperance
Readers are trained to wait for the race; the faith only frames it.
6
Truth
A betrayal puts him in the galleys; the huge sales are not one audited sum.
5
Stewardship
Wallace left an 1880 novel with a faith frame, not the later films.

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Story · Russia · 1877

Anna Karenina

55Watch it awake.

It's adult, she leaves the household, and that household is what I can't shake.

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The review

This one is adult, and I mean it. Anna leaves a cold husband for a man who will not be enough. Tolstoy also gives you Levin, who stays on the land and learns a plainer life. One marriage breaks. Another holds. I don't need the affair told in this house, and I won't linger on the train. People already know that image. The household she left is the bill.

If you open it, read both lines, not only the famous wreck. Levin's pages are work and a life that is plain on purpose. Anna's story tells the truth about a want that outruns the man and the home, and it is not a suggestion. It stays off the family shelf until the kids are grown.

Journal

Keep Anna Karenina in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 55. Yours can differ.

The glance

Republic and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Does anyone owe a neighbor, a law, or a town — or is every person out for themselves?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

A Tale of Two Cities

66 instead of 55

A Tale of Two Cities is still a novel film, and it scores 66 instead of 55. What you gain is republic: A crowd in Paris becomes a terror, and the revolution eats its own.