The Christmas storms by Valentino Gomez

To begin this essay, and to compare or relate the values of caring and patience to the story “The Lady of Shallot”, it is important for us to know the definition of these two important values. Patience is the capacity to accept or tolerate delay, problems, or suffering without becoming annoyed or anxious. It is when you can maintain yourself calm even if something happening around you bothers you. While the value of caring is when you feel or show worry, kindness or concern about someone that might or might not be special to you. Now in the story “The Lady of Shallot” i could only find patience in the lady and care in sir Lancelot. To begin with why i found patience in the lady of shallot is because she was a young woman who was imprisoned all by herself in an island called Shallot. It is an island near a place called Camelot. She was cursed and was held there for a long while weaving a magical web. I believe she has patience because she had to go through all of that on her own. She could not look at the outside world but could only see what was happening throughout a mirror that she had in the room she was in; that mirror reflected what was going on from the outside. She could see Camelot just through there and through some shadows that passed by. I believe it is a very boring life and she had was patient about it because she knew that if she looked directly at the outside world the curse she had would be activated and she could possibly die. I believe she doesn’t care about herself since her curiosity made her look at the outside when she shouldn’t have. A man called sir Lancelot got her attention and that was when she peeked on the reality world. She had to take a look at something that was real and not just a reflection through the mirror.  She left the place where she was imprisoned and got on a boat and swam away in the river with a long white dress. She did suffer a lot in that place and that’s why i mentioned she was patient enough but if she cared about herself she would not have looked outside to Camelot since she knew what the consequences to that act where. At the end of the story sir Lancelot, the man that captivated her eye and the man that lead to the curse being activated ran up to her because he saw her body lying on that boat. He and the people that were around the river at the moment went up to her since there was a body lying there. She froze dead from the breezy weather. What sir Lancelot did showed care, even if he did not know who that lady was, he went up to her to see what was going on and said or thought to himself that she had a beautiful face.