The exceptionally well-written novel, “The Red Tent”, written by Anita Diamant, is a story that is truly fictional. This means that Anita’s story is not completely true even though it is drawn from the book of Genesis, Chapter 34. It is based upon a familiar Bible story, but the writer does not simply tell it. The story can be called a heresy to some degree, but only because the author explains more than the Bible offers to its readers. She goes deep into the feelings and lives of female characters and gives the reader what changes the characters underwent. The story is basically a historical one, since it is based on memories of what really happened. The narrator, Dinah, tells the story from her memory about the times they lived together with her mothers, wives to her father Jacob. The writer changed the biblical story. According to the latter, the two sisters who married Jacob, Rachael and Leah, hated each other. The writer did not show that Jacob was indifferent to Leah nor did she portray Leah as an ugly …show more content…
In the red tent, where days pass like a gentle stream, as the gift of Innana courses through us, cleansing the body of last month's death, preparing the body to receive the new month's life, women give thanks for repose and restoration, for the knowledge that life comes from between our legs, and that life costs blood." (Diamant 158). This fact alone tells the reader all about women, their purpose and joy. Women are delighted knowing that their bodies will give birth to children. They also appreciate the fact that the blood they shed every month is significant in creation of the new-born. They call the flow a cleanser of death, which could also mean that the stay in the tent is worthwhile in helping them to forget the challenges they came across in the outside world that gave men all the