Plot Summary. All Themes Love vs. Service Earthly Hopes vs. Heavenly Values. All Symbols Bronze Bow. LitCharts Teacher Editions. Teach your students to analyze literature like LitCharts does.
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The way the content is organized and presented is seamlessly smooth, innovative, and comprehensive. LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in The Bronze Bow , which you can use to track the themes throughout the work. Daniel bar Jamin , a tall, slender year-old with tanned skin and expressive dark eyes, stands on a mountain path overlooking the sea. He is a Galilean, whose homeland, Palestine, has been conquered by the Romans. Beginning in the early 1st century C. Active Themes.
Earthly Hopes vs. The olive terraces are filled with signs of spring, but Daniel is focused on two figures moving on the path above him. Preferring to forget life in the valley below, he resents their appearance on the mountain. Though Daniel apparently has a connection to a more conventional Galilean life, he wants to forget it for some reason, suggesting his past is complicated. Daniel used to sit up here and think about his grandmother and sister Leah , living in the village of Ketzah below.
Though self-conscious about his ragged tunic, Daniel emerges from the rocks and awkwardly greets the two. Startled, they hold their ground and soon recognize Daniel as the runaway apprentice of the blacksmith, Amalek. Having ties in both places, Daniel feels torn between life on the mountain and life in the village—a tension which will persist in the story. Daniel asks for news of his grandmother and sister.
Daniel witnesses the dire conditions they live in and is desperate to return to freedom on the mountain. Simon takes him to listen to a visiting carpenter-turned-preacher named Jesus.
Daniel is hurt badly when he picks a fight with a Roman soldier. Daniel and Joel visit Jesus in Bethsaida, where Jesus heals the sick and preaches his words.
When Daniel learns that his grandmother is dying, he returns to his village. His grandmother dies, and he is left in charge of Leah. Now following Jesus, Simon offers Daniel his house and blacksmith shop. There, Leah enjoys household tasks, works at her loom, and befriends Malthace. They change their meeting place when a young blond-haired Roman soldier begins to frequent the shop. While Joel throws himself into spying, Daniel bonds with Malthace.
When the Romans capture Joel and Rosh refuses to help rescue him, Daniel sees Rosh for the calculating, selfish man he is and breaks from his band. Though Joel gives up his studies for the cause, Daniel tells Joel he will be of better use as a scholar.
When Daniel watches Malthace dance among her wealthy peers, Daniel turns away her profession of love on account of his vow for vengeance. Daniel learns that Leah has fallen in love with the Roman soldier who frequented his shop and cruelly berates her until she is again possessed by demons. Daniel searches for Jesus and learns that Jesus has proclaimed himself as the Messiah and has left.
Simon explains to Daniel that Jesus will never fight against the Romans—their only true chains are fear and hatred. He realizes that the sword meant for Rome will have caused both Samson and Leah to perish.
When Jesus arrives and heals Leah, Daniel finally gives in to love. He then invites the Roman soldier into his home to see Leah.
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