Response Paper ENWR110 Mickey Woo 10/18/00 Babette¡¯s Feast The first part of the film describes how Babette settles into this small town. But the main story builds twelve years after her arrival. Babette receives notification from France that she has won the lottery, ten thousand francs. With her winnings she resolves to help two sisters, Martina and Phillipa, and the congregation celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the late pastor by preparing a …showed first 75 words of 417 total…

…showed last 75 words of 417 total…joy they could have experienced in no other way. The movie closes with the general¡¯s speech that though we have been told that grace is in the universe, humans¡¯ foolishness and shortsightedness divine grace to be finite. ¡°But the moment comes when our eyes are opened and we see and realize that grace is infinite, Grace, my friends, demands nothing from us but that we await it with confidence and acknowledge it in gratitude.¡±