Tom, now out of work, is dispatched to go and try to help Savannah. He stays for weeks in the city that Savannah has adopted, and he despises it for its coldness and unfamiliarity. There he meets Dr. Susan Lowenstein, Savannah's psychiatrist, and agrees to help her understand his sister so that she can try and bring Savannah out of the psychosis. Over a period of time, Tom tells the family history to Dr. During that process, two things happen to Tom.
He coaches Lowenstein's son, Bernard, to become a football player, and he falls in love with the doctor. Tom knows Sallie, his wife, is having an affair in South Carolina, and it leaves him vulnerable to do the same with Susan Lowenstein. The demolition and relocation of Colleton as well as the loss of Melrose Island, the long time family home, set about the ultimate chain of events that culminate in Tom and Savannah's problems. Tom's final telling of the family "secret" and the tragic death of Luke finally unlocks his own mental problems and Savannah's psychotic episode.
The epilogue to the story presents a ray of hope for Tom, now reconciled with his own wife and children, and an uncertain future for the fragile Savannah. Read more from the Study Guide. Browse all BookRags Study Guides. All rights reserved. When possible, a prince should strive to rise to power on his own merits and with his own arms. Princes who rise to the throne through crime are another matter altogether: Machiavelli condemns them as wicked, and yet his words betray his admiration for their cleverness.
Cruelty, when well-used, can be justified. According to Machiavelli, reliance on mercenaries and auxiliaries for troops is a grave mistake. A prince must lay strong foundations — good laws and good arms — and if the latter is lacking, the former is rendered irrelevant. A state needs both to survive. Mercenaries are disloyal and divided; foreign auxiliaries come already united under another master, and so are in a way even more dangerous.
The prince himself should be a student of war and an avid reader of military history. The Prince is a 16th century classic of political strategy, power, and effective governance. If a good ruler gives way to those who are not good, guess who will rule?
A good person is bound to be ruined among the great numbers who are not good. The prince who wants to hold on its power must learn how to be bad when necessity arises, says Machiavelli.
Read more here:. A good person is ruined among the great numbers who are not good. Once you learn to be bad, you need to learn how to appear good. The vulgar crowd will always be swayed by the cover of the book, says Machiavelli. And the vulgar far outnumber everyone else. Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are. The Psychology of Political Manipulation.
But either show no animosity or destroy them. So if you have a bad boss for example, either you get him fired or accrue all the evidence to sue him and win, or be nice to him until you can. As Sun Tzu says: only wage wars you can win. Go further in your study of The Little Prince with background information, movie adaptations, and links to the best resources around the web.
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