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Title: Eve's Refusal
Author: Michael Hearing
Narrator: Jay Wohlert
Format: Unabridged
Length: 20 mins
Language: English
Release date: 08-19-13
Publisher: Spring Lake Books
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
Eve is a nobody - just a dirty, mentally challenged homeless woman who stands on a street corner in her rags and "prophesies." But she knows exactly what she possesses - what most of those who pity her don't have.
Eve refuses to take advantage of social programs - and for good reason. She refuses to submit to the medical procedure and the progress monitoring, preferring instead to keep what she has.
Eve has an important lesson to teach Andrew Thurston, Director of the Social Equity and Rehabilitation Department, who is determined to help her. It's a lesson he learns the hard way.
Members Reviews:
Not a simple short stroy or is it? You Decided
I will have to be honest, I had to re-read the book several times over to find out what was going on with everything. So why the 5 stars for this book, it made me think and think hard. As a reader I have gotten so used to the writter just telling me the meaning of the stroy or the "catch" as I have come to call it. For example, so many fantasy books have gotten to the point of good fighting evil and good always win. A lot of excitment, fighting, death and the hummor, but that is it. Nothing for the read to set down and think for a minute of why the hero was going to go on this long quest just to miss not being home in front of the fire place wishing that he was just out and about and not really doing it. My point is, you need to think about what you are reading and think hard. I believe that other readers will not come to the same idea as I have but come to their own.
After reading the book several times over and finaily seeing what Eve was trying to get at, I started to see what she was seeing. I seen the old man I met in Afgain, when I went overseas the first time. I gave him a bottle of water and you would have thought that I just had given him the founatin of youth. I seen a child with a smile on his face when I went overseas again and handed him a MRE, I did not give him an endless supply of food,. They were happy with what they had and nothing more. No fancy cars, no fancy house, no slender dressed woman in a tight dress tryng to seduce them. Granted Eve did not want the mans money or his self pitty, but I believe she would have taken it if it was given out of the kindness of the heart and no strings attached.
I noticed my self in the book as well. I was not happy with with what I had untill I had everything under my control and did as a I wish. It was not untill went over seas and found my self, wanting my own statue on a street corner and being content with what I had. I think that ever person should read this book and think about what it means to them. Again I do not think this was the authers intent, but that is the message I got out of the book, be happy with what you have.
Over all a good short story and one that has several hints and meanings behind it. You just need to keep reading to find them all.
The People of Our Time
What is it about you Flannery O'Connor people? Must you focus on the trashiest people the world has to offer? What is your point?
There were three characters in this story. Each of them was vividly described, and in my opinion, accurate.
I liked it, honestly. I could actually see this sort of thing happening some day to some poor gullible idiot!
I recommend this story to others, because honestly, it is a good story.
