2) A key theme in this short-story is the fact that Christianity makes people strong and beautiful. Once a person drifts away from the religion, he/she will become frail and weak. Another important moral that is shown in the short-story is the importance to always tell the truth, even if the truth may hurt. Christians should never lie; therefore, the Chaplain's wife was wrong to lie about the Englishman returning to marry Lispeth.
3) This short-story was pretty good and engaging. Unlike many other short-stories, this story progressed very well and had interesting ideas that occurred throughout the whole story. The fact that this story spoke about "love at first sight" was probably another reason why this story was interesting, since it seems that many people have mixed opinions about it. To be able to notice that the author's views of "love at first sight" were similar to mine was pretty cool, mainly because the way that the events unwrapped after Lispeth's "love" to the Englishman was very similar to the way I would describe a "love at first sight" relationship.
Kipling, Rudyard. "Lispeth." Read Book Online. Web. 11 Apr. 2011. <http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/2478/>.
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