![]() ![]() Having said that, if you did want to be the Messiah and you happened to be a young woman who could electrocute people at will, here are a few things to bear in mind: 1. ![]() What people say about you is – as we’re discovering through social media – often more significant than whatever “the truth” ever was. I don’t know how actual messiahs end up that way, and I think it’d be presumptuous of me to suggest that they definitely are, or definitely aren’t, what people say they are. Being Jewish, I’m less interested in straight belief than I am in what and how people do the things they do. One of the questions I most frequently get from readers of “The Power” is the following: “What’s the deal with Allie and The Voice anyway? Is that voice God, or is it some response to trauma?” To which I reply: Yes, that’s a great question. ![]() Throughout the book, Allie is guided by an inner voice that Alderman doesn’t ever explain.īelow, Alderman addresses the burning question that many of our book club members have had, and that many readers have asked her: What’s the deal with the voice? In her words:Ī few instructions for becoming the Messiah In the case of Allie Montgomery-Taylor, she transforms from a vulnerable and abused girl into a powerful and influential religious figure called Mother Eve. After getting the power, many women change. In “The Power,” British writer Naomi Alderman explores what happens if women all across the world suddenly developed a superpower that could be used for good or ill. ![]()
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