2.1 Globin Market

In Goblin Market Christina Rossetti writes about Lizzie and Laura whom in which they live alone in poverty.The goblin market is filling with men who usually try to convince women to buy their forbidden fruits. They would call out to women who passed by to come buy their fruits. Lizzie would often warned her sister Laura that the goblin men are evil; the fruits they sell are forbidden. But men being goblins where the goblins try to sell the fruits to people who want to buy. In the beginning of the story Laura passes by the goblin men, somehow, was manipulated and persuaded in to buying their fruit. Subdued by the goblin men, Laura was unable pay for the fruit because she had no money, so, instead she took a lock of her beautiful hair. The next day Lauren becomes obsessed with the fruits she tasted the day before and goes to the goblins market where she finds,unlike her sister that she no longer can hear them. Once Laura couldn't get no more forbidden fruits she wasn't feeling the same, Laura didn't work as much around the house so that lend her to depression. So Lizzie saw Laura really not feeling good and Laura looked like she was going to die so Lizzie went to the town where the goblins to buy fruits for Laura. But the goblins didn't want her to take the fruits back home with her they wanted Lizzie to eat the fruits right there in front of the goblins. When Lizzie said no and the goblins was forcing her to eat the fruits but she fought the goblins until they stop and the goblins didn't stop after a long fight. But Laura drank the juice off Lizzie and slowly transformed into a newly woman. At the end both sisters lived and changed Laura got to tell her story to her children.




This story is trying to show us how addiction happens everywhere in this world and we need to be careful with what we get addicted to. It was basically telling us that the goblins were the men who can't live without having sex with girls and looking at there body parts and were women tend to fall for goblins who use them for sex. So this poem was really interesting because I think this really happens in our life time now where men and women use other people and it don't stop until they grow up. Also I am assuming they were abandon or runner ways at that time whom in which they lived among prostitutes, pimps and drug dealers. One sister is innocent while the other one is into a life of hell. So basically it's about one sister who try's to save her sister from evil and redeemed her sister soul back. Christina was trying to tell us there will be bums in the road like drugs, sex, and death. So it depends on who will give up and who will overcome those hard situations to live a healthy lifestyle. Those habits really do happen in our life time so Christina really has a strong case about what's going on in our lives. I hope people learned from this poem and it can change men and women mind state on sex and respect both genders.