Daniel+in+the+Lion's+Den

The Cowardly Lions Background story: King Darius of the Persians employs 120 satraps to govern his kingdom and three presidents to look over them, one of which is Daniel. Daniel becomes well known throughout the satraps and kings because he has an "excellent spirit" in him. The King soon planns to let him govern the entire kingdom. Out of jealousy, the satraps and other presidents set out to find fault or problem with him, but they can't because Daniel is very faithful to his job and to the King. The satraps and other presidents plan to get rid of him by convincing the King to establish a new law that could get rid of Daniel. They tell Darius that every satrap and president wants a law that prohibited any worship of gods or any other man except Darius, and the punishment for not abiding is to be getting forced into a den of lions. Darius allows the law to be passed

Once Daniel hears about the new law, he continues to pray as he usually does: three times a day from his window facing Jerusalem. The satraps catch him and tell Darius that Daniel has been worshiping a god, and that the law could not be removed. The king is distressed, but he sends Daniel into a den of lions anyways as the law said. The cave is sealed, and the king spends the knight fasting and worrying about Daniel. In the morning, Darius awakes and opens the cave to find that Daniel was safe as his god protects him from the lions. The king lifts him out of the den, and every man and their families who accuse David are sent into the den of lions. The story ends with King Darius writing that Daniel's god is the true god, and he is to be worshiped.

*The theme of this biblical story is that you need to keep faith in something and not give up hope when times get tough, just as Daniel did when he was sent to his execution.

Allusions:


 * Play || * "The Merchant of Venice" by Shakespeare ||
 * Travel Book || * "The Innocents Abroad" by Mark Twain ||
 * Biography || * "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave" by Frederick Douglass
 * "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bront ë ||
 * Novels || * "Cut to the Quick" by Kate Ross
 * "The Heart of the Matter" by Graham Greene ||
 * Poems || * "Only to Find Peace in a Lion's Den" by Trevor Wilkinson ||

Allusions to this story in the Old Testament usually relate to a Daniel, a Lion's Den, or perhaps both. If someone is described as a Daniel, they are someone who faces great danger with courage as Daniel did in the story. They could also be someone who got stuck in a situation that they could not get out of; however they got through it anyways. A Lion's den is described as just a dangerous place.

Only to Find Peace in a Lion's Den  Trevor Wilkinson The two things i love most

One as a brother one as a lover

Have both been taken away by one another

One brings a different kind of love

The other affection

But i came to find when the martyr met the saint

Instead of finding a home of bliss

I found myself stuck in a lions den

While the different kind of love forever took away my affection to keep for himself

Tormenting me with what was once mine

The affection forever killed the different kind of love unconsciously forcing me to Never think of it the same way again

Now that both have died

I can only be reminded of them by entering hell itself

Both are present but no love is here because I am the shepard of two sheep Whom not died from a wolf but who killed each other.

//Daniel //. //The Holy Bible: Revised Standard Version //. New York: World, 1962. Print.

Delahunty, Andrew, and Sheila Dignen. //Oxford Dictionary of Reference and Allusion //. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2012. Print.

Douglass, Frederick, and Houston A. Baker. //Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave //. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin, 1982. Print.

 Gerver, Jane E., and Charlotte Brontë. //Jane Eyre //. New York: Random House, 1997. Print.

Greene, Graham. //The Heart of the Matter //. New York: Viking, 1948. Print.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Ross, Kate. //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Cut to the Quick //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">. New York: Viking, 1993. Print.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,san-serif;">Shakespeare, William. The Merhcant of Venice (The New Folger Library Shakespeare). Simon & Schuster; New Folger Edition, 2002.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Twain, Mark. //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">The Innocents Abroad //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">. New York: Oxford UP, 1996. Print.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Wilkinson, Trevor. "Only to Find Peace in a Lion's Den." //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Poem Hunter //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Nov. 201