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Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

54Watch it awake.

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

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?

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Heidi

64 instead of 54

Heidi is still a novel film, and it scores 64 instead of 54. What you gain is household: A girl left with her grandfather thaws him, and that bond is the life.

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 · A household shelf · 1883

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Treasure Island

56Watch it awake.

Courage is real. The treasure is not a good inheritance, and the rum is not a joke.

The review

Jim Hawkins is brave. That part is clean. He is also a boy on a ship where the most likable man is a murderer, and the prize at the end is coins that nobody earned. The story knows Silver is dangerous. It still has too much fun with him.

Read it for the courage and for the warning. A charming man who will change sides for a chest is not a model. Do not hand a child the rum, the killing, and the treasure as if they were one adventure.

Journal

Keep Treasure Island in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 56. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Temperance are the thin ones.

Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?

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Pride and Prejudice

70 instead of 56

Pride and Prejudice is still a story film, and it scores 70 instead of 56. What you gain is household: Marriage is the whole question, and Wickham's charm is not allowed to be free.