# Rescued explained — Barriers Burned Away

> Chapter companion for Barriers Burned Away by Edward Payson Roe.

## What happens

Dennis Fleet visits the Bruder family, rescuing Mr. Bruder from despair and potential suicide. He purchases a painting, offers friendship, and arranges art lessons. Dennis also hires Ernst to work at the store, providing material and spiritual support to the struggling family.

## Themes in this chapter

### Redemption and Transformation

Mr. Bruder's potential redemption from alcoholism and despair through Dennis's intervention and faith.

### Suffering and Providence

The Bruder family's suffering and Dennis's role as an instrument of divine providence.

### Art and Ambition

Dennis's ambition to become an artist and Mr. Bruder's reawakening as an artist through recognition.

## Character check-ins

### Dennis Fleet

Acts as a rescuer and friend, providing financial and emotional support to the Bruder family, arranging art lessons, and hiring Ernst.

### Mr. Bruder

A former artist now in deep despair and struggling with alcoholism; he is moved by Dennis's kindness and begins to hope again.

### Mrs. Bruder

The grateful wife who witnesses her husband's transformation and expresses profound thanks to Dennis.

### Ernst

The young son who runs errands for Dennis and is hired to assist at the store.

## Key lines

> I vill do vatever you want me to," said the man, simply, "I vish I could be led and vatched over as a little child.

Mr. Bruder expresses his willingness to follow Dennis's guidance, comparing himself to a child in need of care.

_Shows Mr. Bruder's humility and dependence on Dennis's friendship._

> I haf resolved ofer and ofer again, only to do vorse, and sink deeper at der next temptation, till at last I gave up trying. Unless I am sustained by some strength greater dan mine, I haf no hope.

Mr. Bruder admits his repeated failed attempts to overcome alcoholism and acknowledges his need for divine help.

_Highlights the theme of redemption and the struggle against addiction._

> I vas in hell on earth ven you came. I vould haf been in hell beneath before morning. I proposed, from the proceeds of dot picture, to indulge in von more delirium, and den seek to quench all in der vaters of der lake.

Mr. Bruder confesses he was suicidal and planned to use the money from the painting for a final drinking binge before drowning himself.

_Reveals the depth of Mr. Bruder's despair and the critical nature of Dennis's intervention._

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