1.) The Widow Douglas is Huck's mother-like figure who is very strict. He doesn't care that he's dead.
2.) Huck does things like throwing salt over his shoulder and spinning in circles after killing a spider.
3.) He does not care where he ends up as long as he can be with Tom Sawyer, and neglects unknowingly much of Christianity.
4.) He convinces that their separation in the fog was just a dream.
5.) He is seemingly stuck-up according to Huck
6.) No, because Huck does not realize the worth of money due to the way he was raised.
7.) Tom is much more adventurous than Huck whereas Huck is realistic and always one of several friends involved in Tom's schemes.
8.) Because highwaymen hole people up and burglars just break into houses.
9.) He doesn't understand religion and cannot grasp the concept of playing a harp in the good place.
10.) Because he calls a Sunday School picnic a gathering of rich A-rabs with exotic jewelry and diamonds.
11.) They robbed children at a Sunday School Picnic when he claimed that they were rich arabs and elephants.
12.) Because his dad would take it and use it to buy drinks
Friday, December 13, 2013
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Lincoln Inaugural Transcript Outline
1. Lincoln Takes Oath (again)
a. Lincoln adresses the course to be pursued
b. declares the shortened length
c. States that he will progress positively during his four years
2. The Occasion
a. Lincoln recalls the war
b. War was harsh but inevitable
3. The People
a. An eighth of the population was colored slaves
b. Although government did nothing, Lincoln did
c. The people who fought believe in the same things and share more similarities than they care to acknowledge
4. United States
a. Lincoln will require the nation to bind together as one with other countries
a. Lincoln adresses the course to be pursued
b. declares the shortened length
c. States that he will progress positively during his four years
2. The Occasion
a. Lincoln recalls the war
b. War was harsh but inevitable
3. The People
a. An eighth of the population was colored slaves
b. Although government did nothing, Lincoln did
c. The people who fought believe in the same things and share more similarities than they care to acknowledge
4. United States
a. Lincoln will require the nation to bind together as one with other countries
Sunday, December 8, 2013
Trip Work
1. The speaker dies
2. Disapproving and more supportive of more independent types people
3. Everyone in the room is watching god do the work that is take life away
4. That it is inevitable and mournful but not avoidable
5. Madness, all, chain. Door society majority chariots valves
6. Independent
7. That the loaded gun takes life away
8. Transcendentalist ideals
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
1-3 537
1.) Regardless that things die, life goes on and is an endless cycle.
2.) A hawk
3.) Life and the inability to die forever.
2.) A hawk
3.) Life and the inability to die forever.
Scarlet Letter Essay
Hawthorne uses very many themes in the Scarlet Letter to explain things, one that he uses is Good vs. Evil, and mainly uses it via his character Chillingworth. He uses Good Vs. Evil to describe how he at first is just another character in the story who is seen as good. But after long, when he is not the one who has committed sin, because he continuously tries to make Hester, who has committed sin, a public embarrassment. Although Hester Prynne is viewed by society as the most unlawful character, she is the most honest due to her willingness to admit that she was indeed an adulterer by wearing the letter "A" on her chest. This is showing that although she is viewed to be evil, she is actually good. Chillingworth, knowing of the affair, progressively becomes more and more dark throughout the story. Although he was the one who was wronged, he still is attempting to suppress Hester's life by potentially revealing who her other lover was to society. Hawthorne uses this to show Chillingworth's increasingly harsh evil while the person who has done something wrong, is not as evil because she admits to her mistakes.
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Scarlet Letter Dialectal Journals 51-55
Chapter 24
#51
"Some affirmed that the reverend Mr. Dimmmesdale, on the very day when Hester Prynne first wore her ignominious badge, had begun a course of penance, which he afterwards, in so many futile methods, followed out, by inflicting a hideous torture on himself.
- Dimmesdale is punishing himself by not wearing the letter, or standing upon the column with Hester, but Hawthorne depicts him doing it to show that human nature is not always honest. He does want to be a part of her life but he knows, or at least thinks, that his job will not be able to be performed if he tells the society he preaches to.
#52
"After exhausting life in his efforts for mankind's spiritual good, he had made the manner of his death a parable, in order to impress on his admirers the might and mournful lesson, that, in the view of Infinite Purity, we are sinners all alike."
-Hawthorne conveys the very message as directly as he can in the story here. He says that no matter how he may or may not be trying to appeal to the people who love him dearly, he is a sinner, just like everyone else.
#53
"So Pearl - the elf-child, the demon offspring, as some people, up to that epoch, persisted in considering her - became the richest heiress of her day, in the New World."
-Pearl was a flower that bloomed after several years but began as hideous. Viewed by society as evil and disgusting, eventually became one of the greatest things to be.
#54
"Pearl was not only alive, but married, and happy, and mindful of her mother"
Although her mother made mistakes that haunted her childhood, she still overcame them and learned from them, as any child learns from their parents. She then lived a happy life and was mindful of the misfortunes that occurred."
#55
#54
"Pearl was not only alive, but married, and happy, and mindful of her mother"
Although her mother made mistakes that haunted her childhood, she still overcame them and learned from them, as any child learns from their parents. She then lived a happy life and was mindful of the misfortunes that occurred."
#55
And relieved only by one ever-glowing point of light gloomier than the shadow
- The darkest thing that had happened was that the A, the legend of the adulterers had been placed upon their graves for all of society to see. Even after death, they were not forgotten for their sins because society viewed that they should not.
- The darkest thing that had happened was that the A, the legend of the adulterers had been placed upon their graves for all of society to see. Even after death, they were not forgotten for their sins because society viewed that they should not.
Dialectal Journals 13-51
Chapter 7
#13
"If the child, on the other hand, were really capable of moral and religious growth, and possessed the elements of ultimate salvation, then, surely, it would enjoy all the fairer prospect of these advantages by being transferred to wiser and better guardianship than heater prynne's."
- Pearl cannot be like the other Puritan children who represent the ideals of a religion that frowns upon sin. She cannot, because she was born of sin, from adulterers. This is showing again Puritan ideals by using isolation.
#14
"So much strength of coloring, which must have given a wan and pallid aspect to cheeks of a fainter bloom, was admirably adapted to pearls beauty, and made her the very brightest little jet of flame that ever danced upon the earth."
- Pearl is within the forest and so vivid and noticeable inside that she is a flame, who is clearly happy, regardless of mistakes made by others(Her mother and the minister).
#15
"She resembled, in her fierce pursuit of them, an infant pestilence, the scarlet fever, or some such half-fledged angel of judgment, whose mission was to punish the sins of the rising generation.
-Pearl is viewed as an infestation of the Puritans born of sin and not respected. She, however has done nothing wrong but is a blooming rose bud that will someday be something great.
(#16)
As the two wayfarers came within the precincts of the town, the children of the Puritans looked up from their play, or what passed for play with those sombre little urchins, and spake gravely to one another.
#15
"She resembled, in her fierce pursuit of them, an infant pestilence, the scarlet fever, or some such half-fledged angel of judgment, whose mission was to punish the sins of the rising generation.
-Pearl is viewed as an infestation of the Puritans born of sin and not respected. She, however has done nothing wrong but is a blooming rose bud that will someday be something great.
(#16)
As the two wayfarers came within the precincts of the town, the children of the Puritans looked up from their play, or what passed for play with those sombre little urchins, and spake gravely to one another.
The children, who are playing, see Hester and Pearl and view them as dark, dull, and grey, because of their exclusion from society. Pearl is not able to blend in with the others because she is born of sin, but the other children who are not, are vivid and colorful unlike Pearl.
(#17)
"No, my little Pearl!" said her mother. "Thou must gather thine own sunshine. I have none to give to thee!"
-Hester has no "sunshine", as she puts it, or anything that can be viewed positively because she is a sinner, and only surrounded by her mistakes. If Pearl wants to find happiness, she cannot find it from her mother, but must search for it and find it herself.
(#18)
"Come along, Pearl!" said she, drawing her away. "Come and look into this fair garden. It may be, we shall see flowers there; more beautiful ones than we find in the woods.
Hawthorne here is alluding to the bible, and showing that in the bible the beauty replicated is twice as amazing as the forest they are in now. It is an allusion to Eden and the creation of life, which is one of the greatest feats of nature where Hester and Pearl can escape to.
(#17)
"No, my little Pearl!" said her mother. "Thou must gather thine own sunshine. I have none to give to thee!"
-Hester has no "sunshine", as she puts it, or anything that can be viewed positively because she is a sinner, and only surrounded by her mistakes. If Pearl wants to find happiness, she cannot find it from her mother, but must search for it and find it herself.
(#18)
"Come along, Pearl!" said she, drawing her away. "Come and look into this fair garden. It may be, we shall see flowers there; more beautiful ones than we find in the woods.
Hawthorne here is alluding to the bible, and showing that in the bible the beauty replicated is twice as amazing as the forest they are in now. It is an allusion to Eden and the creation of life, which is one of the greatest feats of nature where Hester and Pearl can escape to.
Chapter 8
#19
"I am mothers child, answered the scarlet vision, and my name is Pearl!"
- Pearl believes that she will be exactly like her mother, unknowing of the adulterer she is. She wants to , but does not actually know that her mother is a sinner, and that that is why she cannot play among or be like the other children.
#20
"I can teach my little Pearl what I have learned from this!" answered Hester Prynne, laying her finger on the red token.
"Woman, it is thy badge of shame!" replied the stern magistrate. It is because of the stain which that letter indicates, that we would transfer thy chid to other hands.
- Hester, believing that she can show her child to learn from her sins, proudly tells of it. However, the despondent quickly reminds her that it is not something to be proud of, and that she wears it to advertise her mistakes.
Chapter 9
#21
"Unkown to all but Hester Prynne, and possessing the lock and key of her silence, he chose to withdraw his name from the roll of mankind, and, as regarded his former ties and interests, to vanish out of life as completely as if he indeed lay at the bottom of the ocean, whither rumor had long ago consigned him"
-Chillingworth is furthering his connection from all of mankind and society apart, he is becoming more and more evil and less of a man. He is now described as a materialized darkness only attempting to inflict pain; he is the devil.
#22
"Unkown to all but Hester Prynne, and possessing the lock and key of her silence, he chose to withdraw his name from the roll of mankind, and, as regarded his former ties and interests, to vanish out of life as completely as if he indeed lay at the bottom of the ocean, whither rumor had long ago consigned him"
-Chillingworth is furthering his connection from all of mankind and society apart, he is becoming more and more evil and less of a man. He is now described as a materialized darkness only attempting to inflict pain; he is the devil.
#22
"His form grew emancipated; his voice, though still rich and sweet had a certain melancholy prophecy of decay and it he was often observed on any slight alarm or other sudden accident to put his hand over his heart with first of flushing the paleness indicative of pain"
- Chillingworth can still maintain a positive image regardless of how evil he actually is. He feels no pain of his committed actions and will do anything he can to make sure that Hester is aware of her mistake.
#23
"The walls were hung round with tapestry, said to be from the Gobelin looms, and Bathsheba, and Nathan the Prophet, in colors still ungraded, but which made the fair woman of the scene almost as grimly picturesque as the woe-denouncing seer."
- The atmosphere of the room causes the woman to seem more religious-like and gives off the impression that she is helping Pearl by telling her religious things.
Chapter 10
#24
"He now dug into the poor clergyman's heart, like a miner searching for gold; or rather, like a sexton delving into a grave, possibly in quest of a jewel that had been buried on the dead man's bosom."
-The physician is searching for something inside the heart, which symbolizes his own search for his greater good. He, unaware of how something needs to be found, is still intent on finding it inside himself.
#25
"Watching the process by which weeds were converted into drugs of potency."
-Watching weeds grow is like watching drugs perform their tasks. They continuously do a specific task, grow, until they are completely grown.
Chapter 11
# 26
"In their eyes, the very grounds on which he trod was sanctified"
- The others view the minister as the most holy man they know, when in truth he is a greater sinner than the entire Puritan society, not because of his adultry, but because he refuses to publicize it in the same way that Hester has.
Chapter 12
#27
"The same platform or scaffold, black and weather-stained with the storm or sunshine of seven long years, and foot-worn, too, with the tread of many culprits who had since ascended it, remained standing beneath the balcony of the meeting-house. The minister went up the steps. "
- The weather stain scaffold that Hester once stood on is no darkened by nature. It symbolizes that things that have lasted since then are now darkened and changing. Hester's sin has turned her into a saint-like woman desperate to assist the community, and shaded over her sin the same way the weather has darkened that scaffold.
#28
"The great vault brightened, like the dome of an immense lamp. It showed the familiar scene of the street, with the distinctness of midday, but also with the awfulness that is always imparted to familiar objects by an unaccustomed light."
- The vault, now illuminated, is light that is now spreading on something once negative. It reveals the things that people want to see as well as the terrible places in the city that are frowned upon.
#29
"They stood in the noon of that strange and solemn splendor, as if it were the light that is to reveal all secrets, and the daybreak that shall unite all who belong to one another."
- The sunshine is the revealer of secrets and considered a positive thing in nature, unlike darkness.
Chapter 13
#30
"Links that united her to the rest of human kind- links of flowers, or silk, or gold, or whatever the material-had all been broken.
- Hester's connection to nature is now non-existent, which shows that all of the life she had once enjoyed, is dying in front of her very eyes.
31
"Such helpfulness was found in her, so much power to do, and power to sympathize, that many people refused to interpret the scarlet a by its original signification. They said that it meant Able; so strong was Hester Prynne, with a woman's strength."
- The "A", that Hester once wore as a declaration of her sin is now being viewed as something positive by the society. Meaning that she is labelled not by her past mistakes, but by the things she does now to make up for it. It is an appeal to forgiveness that Hawthorne expresses and a way of showing that people all make mistakes, but only few have the bravery to admit them and repent in Puritan society.
#32
"It was only the darkened house that could contain her. When Sunshine came again, she was not there. Her shadow had faded across the threshold."
- Hester is associated with darkness, not light, because she has still made gloomy mistakes that follow her around. But was once present in the sunshine, the light, that represents the positivity of things.
#33
"Do you see that woman with the embroidered badge?" they would say to strangers. "It is our Hester, the town's own Hester, who is so kind to the poor, so helpful to the sick, so comfortable to the afflicted!" Then, it is true, the propensity of human nature to tell the very worst of itself, when embodied in the person of another, would constrain them to whisper the black scandal of bygone years.
-Hester is like a gift to the Puritans and such an asset to them, but the worst of human nature, gossip, would be brought out once she had left. Although the discussion of her affair was clearly negative, the people were still human, just as her, but could not resist conversing of the scandal.
Chapter 14
#34
"Peace, Hester Peace!" replied the old man, with gloomy sterness. "It is not granted me to pardon. I have no such power as thou tellest me of.. My old faith, long forgotten, comes back to me, and explains all that we do, and all we suffer."
-The old man's old faith, unsaid, represents why things are negative in the world, but because he does not tell of it, leaves open ideas as to why he shares it. He implies that the Puritan religion is the only holy one, and any others bring darkness.
Chapter 15
#35
"As the last touch to her mermaid's garb, Pearl took some eel-grass, and imitated, as best she could, on her own bosom, the decoration with which she was so familiar on her mother's. A letter, the letter A, but freshly green, instead of scarlet!"
- Pearl wants to be just like her mother, but is unaware of the sins she has made, or why she wears the A. This shows Pearl's connection to her, and shows that she is still looked up to no matter what the a means. Her sins are worthless in comparison with her repent and she has made it clear to society that this is so.
Chapter 16
#36
"Mother," said little Pearl, "the sunshine does not love you. It runs away and hides itself, because it is afraid of something on your bosom. Now, see! There it is, playing a good way off."
-Sunshine is pure and sacred, but Hester, however is not. Absolutely no one is free from sin, and Pearl believes she will grow up to be just like her mother. This makes Hester unweary knowing of the sin she has committed. Pearl, absorbs the sunlight whilst her mother no longer does because of her sin.
#37
"Wilt thou let me be at peace, if I once tell thee?" asked her mother.
"Yes, if thou tellest me all," answered PEarl.
"Once in my life I met the Black Man!" said her mother Black Man= The Minister
"This scarlet letter is his mark!"
-Hester admits that she has indeed been confronted by something, or someone, who greatly resembles the evil that made her commit her sin. There is a greater person who represents the most evil being in existence, and he is the one who bears the scarlet letter upon Hester's chest.
Chapter 17
#38
"Hester Prynne was now fully sensible of the deep injury for which she was responsible to this unhappy man, in permitting him to lie for so many years, or, indeed, for a single moment, at the mercy of one, whose purposes could not be other than malevolent. -Dimmesdale
-Hester comfortably worries not about Dimmesdale's uncomfortableness pertaining to his secrecy of his own A. She knows that she is the reason for his unhappiness, but because he was so unhappy even before, she does not care what he is or is not happy about.
#39
"May God forgive us both! We are not, Hester, the worst sinners in the world. There is one worse than even the polluted priest! That old man's revenge has been blacker than my sin. He has violated, in cold blood, the sanctity of a human heart. Thou and I, Hester, never did so!"
- Guilty of sin, Dimmesdale and Hester have not committed sin as terrible as Chillingworth, which was toying with a human heart. He does this but it one of the worst possible things that a Puritan can do.
Chapter 18
#40
But Hester Prynne, with a mind of native courage and activity, and for so long a period not merely estranged, but outlawed from society, had habituated herself to such latitude of speculation as was all together foreign to the clergyman.
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#41
All at once, as with a sudden smile of heaven, forth burst the sunshine, pouring a very flood into the obscure forest, gladdening each green leaf, transmuting the yellow fallen ones to gold, and gleaming adown the gray trunks of the solemn trees.
-The nature, that was once enshrowded by darkness, is now overcome with gleaming sunlight that represents the return of happiness to what many people thought was once evil.
Chapter 20
#42
Not to speak of the clergyman's health, so inadequate to sustain the hardships of a forest life, his native gifts, his culture, and his entire development would secure him a home only in the midst of civilization and refinement; the higher the state, the more delicately adapted to it the man.
- Hawthorne defines how the clergyman's health is not able to live in the forest, because his culture believes that it is evil. He can only live where there are other people and higher powers, as Puritan life is meant to be. This is the real problem, that he cannot adapt unless he has what he has been taught to live with.
#43
No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
-No one can appeal to society and to themselves when they disagree with either side of the appeal. They must pick a side and be true to it, or it makes no sense to him what he actually wants.
Chapter 21
#44
"It would have been impossible to guess that this bright and sunny apparition owed its existence to the shape of gloomy gray; or that a fancy at once so gorgeous and so delicate"
-The dress that Hester chose to dress her daughter in symbolizes the grayness of life lived that can be transformed into something vibrant and beautiful the same way that Pearl was.
#45
"But, at that instant, she beheld old Roger Chillingworth himself, standing in the remotest corner of the market-place, and smiling on her; a smile which - across the wide and bustling square, and through all the talk and laugher, and various thoughts, moods, and interests of the crowd - conveyed secret and fearful meaning."
- Chilingworth now completely distraught and evil, is still determined to do the best he can to make Hester's life hell. He chooses to do so because he, is the most evil character Hawthorne uses and uses him to resemble the devil.
Chapter 22 205
#46"But she was brought back to her former mood nu the shimmer of the sunshine on the weapons and bright armour of the military company, which followed after the music, and formed the honorary escort of the procession."
- The sunshine is the pleasantness once again in Hawthorne's writing. It is showing that the soldiers are something to welcome and not be afraid of, which is also why Pearl is happy that they are arriving.
#47
"Hold thy peace, dear little Pearl!" whispered her mother. "We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest"
- The forest and city are two extremely different places, and the town is not as comfortable as a place for them to discuss things as the forest it.
Chapter 23
#48
"Wave back that woman! Cast off this child! All shall be well! Do not blacken your fame, and perish dishonor! I can yet save you! Would you bring infamy on your sacred profession!"
- Chillingworth does not want Hester to admit her sins with the minister to the public because he will no longer be able to torture them they way he has. This takes away all the evil that Chillingworth could potentially be and makes him nothing without leverage against her. He too is guilty of sin and is partially why he does not want her on the scaffold once again.
#49
"With a convulsive motion he tore away the ministerial ban from before his breast. It was revealed! But it were irreverent to describe the revelation. For an instant the gaze of the horror stricken multitude was concentrated on the ghastly miracle; while the minister stood with a flush of triumph in his face, as one who, in the crisis of acutest pain, had won a victory. Then, down he sank upon the scaffold!
- After revealing the truth to society, his death is the only thing to follow. It is a way Hawthorne shows that once everything is accomplished, no more can be done, the only thing left is death. Which is what happens to the minister.
#50
- "With God's help, I shall escape thee now!"
The minister tells Chillingworth, who is the devil, that he will be escaping him with the help of God. Chillingworth is no longer able to do anything the same way God stops Satan from committing evil deeds. He is soon to wither away because of his absence of evil he has to present upon Hester and Dimmesdale.
#50
- "With God's help, I shall escape thee now!"
The minister tells Chillingworth, who is the devil, that he will be escaping him with the help of God. Chillingworth is no longer able to do anything the same way God stops Satan from committing evil deeds. He is soon to wither away because of his absence of evil he has to present upon Hester and Dimmesdale.
Dialectal Journals 13-50
Chapter 7
#13
"If the child, on the other hand, were really capable of moral and religious growth, and possessed the elements of ultimate salvation, then, surely, it would enjoy all the fairer prospect of these advantages by being transferred to wiser and better guardianship than heater prynne's."
- Pearl cannot be like the other Puritan children who represent the ideals of a religion that frowns upon sin. She cannot, because she was born of sin, from adulterers. This is showing again Puritan ideals by using isolation.
#14
"So much strength of coloring, which must have given a wan and pallid aspect to cheeks of a fainter bloom, was admirably adapted to pearls beauty, and made her the very brightest little jet of flame that ever danced upon the earth."
- Pearl is within the forest and so vivid and noticeable inside that she is a flame, who is clearly happy, regardless of mistakes made by others(Her mother and the minister).
#15
"She resembled, in her fierce pursuit of them, an infant pestilence, the scarlet fever, or some such half-fledged angel of judgment, whose mission was to punish the sins of the rising generation.
-Pearl is viewed as an infestation of the Puritans born of sin and not respected. She, however has done nothing wrong but is a blooming rose bud that will someday be something great.
(#16)
As the two wayfarers came within the precincts of the town, the children of the Puritans looked up from their play, or what passed for play with those sombre little urchins, and spake gravely to one another.
#15
"She resembled, in her fierce pursuit of them, an infant pestilence, the scarlet fever, or some such half-fledged angel of judgment, whose mission was to punish the sins of the rising generation.
-Pearl is viewed as an infestation of the Puritans born of sin and not respected. She, however has done nothing wrong but is a blooming rose bud that will someday be something great.
(#16)
As the two wayfarers came within the precincts of the town, the children of the Puritans looked up from their play, or what passed for play with those sombre little urchins, and spake gravely to one another.
The children, who are playing, see Hester and Pearl and view them as dark, dull, and grey, because of their exclusion from society. Pearl is not able to blend in with the others because she is born of sin, but the other children who are not, are vivid and colorful unlike Pearl.
(#17)
"No, my little Pearl!" said her mother. "Thou must gather thine own sunshine. I have none to give to thee!"
-Hester has no "sunshine", as she puts it, or anything that can be viewed positively because she is a sinner, and only surrounded by her mistakes. If Pearl wants to find happiness, she cannot find it from her mother, but must search for it and find it herself.
(#18)
"Come along, Pearl!" said she, drawing her away. "Come and look into this fair garden. It may be, we shall see flowers there; more beautiful ones than we find in the woods.
Hawthorne here is alluding to the bible, and showing that in the bible the beauty replicated is twice as amazing as the forest they are in now. It is an allusion to Eden and the creation of life, which is one of the greatest feats of nature where Hester and Pearl can escape to.
(#17)
"No, my little Pearl!" said her mother. "Thou must gather thine own sunshine. I have none to give to thee!"
-Hester has no "sunshine", as she puts it, or anything that can be viewed positively because she is a sinner, and only surrounded by her mistakes. If Pearl wants to find happiness, she cannot find it from her mother, but must search for it and find it herself.
(#18)
"Come along, Pearl!" said she, drawing her away. "Come and look into this fair garden. It may be, we shall see flowers there; more beautiful ones than we find in the woods.
Hawthorne here is alluding to the bible, and showing that in the bible the beauty replicated is twice as amazing as the forest they are in now. It is an allusion to Eden and the creation of life, which is one of the greatest feats of nature where Hester and Pearl can escape to.
Chapter 8
#19
"I am mothers child, answered the scarlet vision, and my name is Pearl!"
- Pearl believes that she will be exactly like her mother, unknowing of the adulterer she is. She wants to , but does not actually know that her mother is a sinner, and that that is why she cannot play among or be like the other children.
#20
"I can teach my little Pearl what I have learned from this!" answered Hester Prynne, laying her finger on the red token.
"Woman, it is thy badge of shame!" replied the stern magistrate. It is because of the stain which that letter indicates, that we would transfer thy chid to other hands.
- Hester, believing that she can show her child to learn from her sins, proudly tells of it. However, the despondent quickly reminds her that it is not something to be proud of, and that she wears it to advertise her mistakes.
Chapter 9
#21
"Unkown to all but Hester Prynne, and possessing the lock and key of her silence, he chose to withdraw his name from the roll of mankind, and, as regarded his former ties and interests, to vanish out of life as completely as if he indeed lay at the bottom of the ocean, whither rumor had long ago consigned him"
-Chillingworth is furthering his connection from all of mankind and society apart, he is becoming more and more evil and less of a man. He is now described as a materialized darkness only attempting to inflict pain; he is the devil.
#22
"Unkown to all but Hester Prynne, and possessing the lock and key of her silence, he chose to withdraw his name from the roll of mankind, and, as regarded his former ties and interests, to vanish out of life as completely as if he indeed lay at the bottom of the ocean, whither rumor had long ago consigned him"
-Chillingworth is furthering his connection from all of mankind and society apart, he is becoming more and more evil and less of a man. He is now described as a materialized darkness only attempting to inflict pain; he is the devil.
#22
"His form grew emancipated; his voice, though still rich and sweet had a certain melancholy prophecy of decay and it he was often observed on any slight alarm or other sudden accident to put his hand over his heart with first of flushing the paleness indicative of pain"
- Chillingworth can still maintain a positive image regardless of how evil he actually is. He feels no pain of his committed actions and will do anything he can to make sure that Hester is aware of her mistake.
#23
"The walls were hung round with tapestry, said to be from the Gobelin looms, and Bathsheba, and Nathan the Prophet, in colors still ungraded, but which made the fair woman of the scene almost as grimly picturesque as the woe-denouncing seer."
- The atmosphere of the room causes the woman to seem more religious-like and gives off the impression that she is helping Pearl by telling her religious things.
Chapter 10
#24
"He now dug into the poor clergyman's heart, like a miner searching for gold; or rather, like a sexton delving into a grave, possibly in quest of a jewel that had been buried on the dead man's bosom."
-The physician is searching for something inside the heart, which symbolizes his own search for his greater good. He, unaware of how something needs to be found, is still intent on finding it inside himself.
#25
"Watching the process by which weeds were converted into drugs of potency."
-Watching weeds grow is like watching drugs perform their tasks. They continuously do a specific task, grow, until they are completely grown.
Chapter 11
# 26
"In their eyes, the very grounds on which he trod was sanctified"
- The others view the minister as the most holy man they know, when in truth he is a greater sinner than the entire Puritan society, not because of his adultry, but because he refuses to publicize it in the same way that Hester has.
Chapter 12
#27
"The same platform or scaffold, black and weather-stained with the storm or sunshine of seven long years, and foot-worn, too, with the tread of many culprits who had since ascended it, remained standing beneath the balcony of the meeting-house. The minister went up the steps. "
- The weather stain scaffold that Hester once stood on is no darkened by nature. It symbolizes that things that have lasted since then are now darkened and changing. Hester's sin has turned her into a saint-like woman desperate to assist the community, and shaded over her sin the same way the weather has darkened that scaffold.
#28
"The great vault brightened, like the dome of an immense lamp. It showed the familiar scene of the street, with the distinctness of midday, but also with the awfulness that is always imparted to familiar objects by an unaccustomed light."
- The vault, now illuminated, is light that is now spreading on something once negative. It reveals the things that people want to see as well as the terrible places in the city that are frowned upon.
#29
"They stood in the noon of that strange and solemn splendor, as if it were the light that is to reveal all secrets, and the daybreak that shall unite all who belong to one another."
- The sunshine is the revealer of secrets and considered a positive thing in nature, unlike darkness.
Chapter 13
#30
"Links that united her to the rest of human kind- links of flowers, or silk, or gold, or whatever the material-had all been broken.
- Hester's connection to nature is now non-existent, which shows that all of the life she had once enjoyed, is dying in front of her very eyes.
31
"Such helpfulness was found in her, so much power to do, and power to sympathize, that many people refused to interpret the scarlet a by its original signification. They said that it meant Able; so strong was Hester Prynne, with a woman's strength."
- The "A", that Hester once wore as a declaration of her sin is now being viewed as something positive by the society. Meaning that she is labelled not by her past mistakes, but by the things she does now to make up for it. It is an appeal to forgiveness that Hawthorne expresses and a way of showing that people all make mistakes, but only few have the bravery to admit them and repent in Puritan society.
#32
"It was only the darkened house that could contain her. When Sunshine came again, she was not there. Her shadow had faded across the threshold."
- Hester is associated with darkness, not light, because she has still made gloomy mistakes that follow her around. But was once present in the sunshine, the light, that represents the positivity of things.
#33
"Do you see that woman with the embroidered badge?" they would say to strangers. "It is our Hester, the town's own Hester, who is so kind to the poor, so helpful to the sick, so comfortable to the afflicted!" Then, it is true, the propensity of human nature to tell the very worst of itself, when embodied in the person of another, would constrain them to whisper the black scandal of bygone years.
-Hester is like a gift to the Puritans and such an asset to them, but the worst of human nature, gossip, would be brought out once she had left. Although the discussion of her affair was clearly negative, the people were still human, just as her, but could not resist conversing of the scandal.
Chapter 14
#34
"Peace, Hester Peace!" replied the old man, with gloomy sterness. "It is not granted me to pardon. I have no such power as thou tellest me of.. My old faith, long forgotten, comes back to me, and explains all that we do, and all we suffer."
-The old man's old faith, unsaid, represents why things are negative in the world, but because he does not tell of it, leaves open ideas as to why he shares it. He implies that the Puritan religion is the only holy one, and any others bring darkness.
Chapter 15
#35
"As the last touch to her mermaid's garb, Pearl took some eel-grass, and imitated, as best she could, on her own bosom, the decoration with which she was so familiar on her mother's. A letter, the letter A, but freshly green, instead of scarlet!"
- Pearl wants to be just like her mother, but is unaware of the sins she has made, or why she wears the A. This shows Pearl's connection to her, and shows that she is still looked up to no matter what the a means. Her sins are worthless in comparison with her repent and she has made it clear to society that this is so.
Chapter 16
#36
"Mother," said little Pearl, "the sunshine does not love you. It runs away and hides itself, because it is afraid of something on your bosom. Now, see! There it is, playing a good way off."
-Sunshine is pure and sacred, but Hester, however is not. Absolutely no one is free from sin, and Pearl believes she will grow up to be just like her mother. This makes Hester unweary knowing of the sin she has committed. Pearl, absorbs the sunlight whilst her mother no longer does because of her sin.
#37
"Wilt thou let me be at peace, if I once tell thee?" asked her mother.
"Yes, if thou tellest me all," answered PEarl.
"Once in my life I met the Black Man!" said her mother Black Man= The Minister
"This scarlet letter is his mark!"
-Hester admits that she has indeed been confronted by something, or someone, who greatly resembles the evil that made her commit her sin. There is a greater person who represents the most evil being in existence, and he is the one who bears the scarlet letter upon Hester's chest.
Chapter 17
#38
"Hester Prynne was now fully sensible of the deep injury for which she was responsible to this unhappy man, in permitting him to lie for so many years, or, indeed, for a single moment, at the mercy of one, whose purposes could not be other than malevolent. -Dimmesdale
-Hester comfortably worries not about Dimmesdale's uncomfortableness pertaining to his secrecy of his own A. She knows that she is the reason for his unhappiness, but because he was so unhappy even before, she does not care what he is or is not happy about.
#39
"May God forgive us both! We are not, Hester, the worst sinners in the world. There is one worse than even the polluted priest! That old man's revenge has been blacker than my sin. He has violated, in cold blood, the sanctity of a human heart. Thou and I, Hester, never did so!"
- Guilty of sin, Dimmesdale and Hester have not committed sin as terrible as Chillingworth, which was toying with a human heart. He does this but it one of the worst possible things that a Puritan can do.
Chapter 18
#40
But Hester Prynne, with a mind of native courage and activity, and for so long a period not merely estranged, but outlawed from society, had habituated herself to such latitude of speculation as was all together foreign to the clergyman.
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#41
All at once, as with a sudden smile of heaven, forth burst the sunshine, pouring a very flood into the obscure forest, gladdening each green leaf, transmuting the yellow fallen ones to gold, and gleaming adown the gray trunks of the solemn trees.
-The nature, that was once enshrowded by darkness, is now overcome with gleaming sunlight that represents the return of happiness to what many people thought was once evil.
Chapter 20
#42
Not to speak of the clergyman's health, so inadequate to sustain the hardships of a forest life, his native gifts, his culture, and his entire development would secure him a home only in the midst of civilization and refinement; the higher the state, the more delicately adapted to it the man.
- Hawthorne defines how the clergyman's health is not able to live in the forest, because his culture believes that it is evil. He can only live where there are other people and higher powers, as Puritan life is meant to be. This is the real problem, that he cannot adapt unless he has what he has been taught to live with.
#43
No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
-No one can appeal to society and to themselves when they disagree with either side of the appeal. They must pick a side and be true to it, or it makes no sense to him what he actually wants.
Chapter 21
#44
"It would have been impossible to guess that this bright and sunny apparition owed its existence to the shape of gloomy gray; or that a fancy at once so gorgeous and so delicate"
-The dress that Hester chose to dress her daughter in symbolizes the grayness of life lived that can be transformed into something vibrant and beautiful the same way that Pearl was.
#45
"But, at that instant, she beheld old Roger Chillingworth himself, standing in the remotest corner of the market-place, and smiling on her; a smile which - across the wide and bustling square, and through all the talk and laugher, and various thoughts, moods, and interests of the crowd - conveyed secret and fearful meaning."
- Chilingworth now completely distraught and evil, is still determined to do the best he can to make Hester's life hell. He chooses to do so because he, is the most evil character Hawthorne uses and uses him to resemble the devil.
Chapter 22 205
#46"But she was brought back to her former mood nu the shimmer of the sunshine on the weapons and bright armour of the military company, which followed after the music, and formed the honorary escort of the procession."
- The sunshine is the pleasantness once again in Hawthorne's writing. It is showing that the soldiers are something to welcome and not be afraid of, which is also why Pearl is happy that they are arriving.
#47
"Hold thy peace, dear little Pearl!" whispered her mother. "We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest"
- The forest and city are two extremely different places, and the town is not as comfortable as a place for them to discuss things as the forest it.
Chapter 23
#48
"Wave back that woman! Cast off this child! All shall be well! Do not blacken your fame, and perish dishonor! I can yet save you! Would you bring infamy on your sacred profession!"
- Chillingworth does not want Hester to admit her sins with the minister to the public because he will no longer be able to torture them they way he has. This takes away all the evil that Chillingworth could potentially be and makes him nothing without leverage against her. He too is guilty of sin and is partially why he does not want her on the scaffold once again.
#49
"With a convulsive motion he tore away the ministerial ban from before his breast. It was revealed! But it were irreverent to describe the revelation. For an instant the gaze of the horror stricken multitude was concentrated on the ghastly miracle; while the minister stood with a flush of triumph in his face, as one who, in the crisis of acutest pain, had won a victory. Then, down he sank upon the scaffold!
- After revealing the truth to society, his death is the only thing to follow. It is a way Hawthorne shows that once everything is accomplished, no more can be done, the only thing left is death. Which is what happens to the minister.
#50
- "With God's help, I shall escape thee now!"
The minister tells Chillingworth, who is the devil, that he will be escaping him with the help of God. Chillingworth is no longer able to do anything the same way God stops Satan from committing evil deeds. He is soon to wither away because of his absence of evil he has to present upon Hester and Dimmesdale.
#50
- "With God's help, I shall escape thee now!"
The minister tells Chillingworth, who is the devil, that he will be escaping him with the help of God. Chillingworth is no longer able to do anything the same way God stops Satan from committing evil deeds. He is soon to wither away because of his absence of evil he has to present upon Hester and Dimmesdale.
Friday, November 15, 2013
Dialectal Journals 3-12
Chapter2
#3
•"But he opposes to me, that it were wronging the very nature of woman to force her to lay open her heart's secret in such broad daylight, and in presence of so great a multitude."
-Hawthorne describes how Hester's confession of adultery is irregular as far as society believes. He tries to send across the message that although society has labeled her as an adulterer, acting up is a part of human nature. Although there is darkness in the letter that she wears upon her chest, light can still be shed upon it.
#4
•"At the very least, they should have put the brand of a hot iron on Hester Prynne's forehead"
-Society should label her as the adulterer she is and her sins should be publicized. Regardless that everyone else too is just as guilty as she is, for different things, she is the only one who is brave enough to confess to her wrong-doings, but is ostracized for them. Hawthorne uses this as a way to define how people who act out of society are picked out negatively, but those who do not and choose not to confess to things fit in.
Chapter 3
#5
•"Such an interview, perhaps, would have been more terrible than burning down upon her face, and lighting up its shame; with the scarlet token of infamy on her breast; with the sin-born infant in her arms; with a whole people, drawn forth as to a festival, staring at the features that should have been seen only in the quiet gleam of the fireside, in the happy shadow of a hoe, or beneath a matronly veil, at church."
-If Hester was to be confronted by one of the Puritans about her letter, it would be more terrible than anything. She is the main attraction to the event and the gathering is so massive that it seems as if it were a festival. In light, darkness, and happiness, she is still a sinner regardless of how the public is viewing her.
#6
•"With the same hard demeanour, she was led back to prison, and vanished from the public gaze within its iron-clamped portal."
-Although Hester was extremely happy to be released for a short period of time, regardless of the demeaning nature she endured, she was returned to the cage that was her prison where the citizens could no longer mockingly discern her. This is Hawthorne's way of describing how Hester views isolation as a peaceful solace where people can no longer judge her. Isolation is the only peace that she can find when all of society is trying to feast its eyes upon the adulterer as if she were an animal in a zoo.
Chapter 4
#7
• "After her return to the prison, Hester Prynne was found to be in a state of nervous excitement that demanded constant watchfulness, lest she should perpetrate violence on herself, or do some half-frenzied mischief to the poor babe."
-Once again using her isolation to describe her self-found safety, this time Hawthorne uses it to show that Hester does not want to be in prison via her own free will. Hester is always enlivened and acts strangely, because society views her as abnormal, she may inflict harm on herself or her child. These assumed random acts require constant supervision to protect her as well as her own child. This is showing that Hester cannot completely isolate herself from society because of the sin that she has confessed to.
#8
•I have thought of death, she said, "have wished for it,
would even have prayed for it, were it fit that such as i should pray for any thing. Yet, if death be in this cup, I bid thee think, again, ere though beholdest me quaff it. See! It is even now at my lips."
- Hester, having reason to believe that the physician could potentially poison her drink,
Chapter 5
#9
• "And over her grave, the infamy that she must carry thither would be her only monument."
-Hawthorne foreshadows that although she was born an honorable child to an honorable family, she will be buried and remembered as what society labelled her as; an adulterer.
#10
• It may seem marvellous, that, with the world before her, kept by no restrictive clause of her condemnation within the limits of the Puritan settlement, so remote and so obscure, free to return to her birthplace, or to any other European land, and there hide her character and identity under a new exterior, as completely as if emerging into another state of being, and havingalso the passes of the dark, inscrutable forest open to her, where the wildness of her nature might assimilate itself with a people whose customs and life were alien from the law that had condemned her, it may seen marvellous, that this woman should still call that place her home, where, and where only, she must needs be the type of shame.
- Disregarding how odd it may seem that Hester is outcast in a society that has little to do with nature, she can still call it her home. She could leave at any time if she truly wanted to and hide herself away in darkness, but chooses not to. Hester knows that she can still be the person society wants her to and even go beyond the expectations of the Puritans by performing good deeds and helping the people out.
#3
•"But he opposes to me, that it were wronging the very nature of woman to force her to lay open her heart's secret in such broad daylight, and in presence of so great a multitude."
-Hawthorne describes how Hester's confession of adultery is irregular as far as society believes. He tries to send across the message that although society has labeled her as an adulterer, acting up is a part of human nature. Although there is darkness in the letter that she wears upon her chest, light can still be shed upon it.
#4
•"At the very least, they should have put the brand of a hot iron on Hester Prynne's forehead"
-Society should label her as the adulterer she is and her sins should be publicized. Regardless that everyone else too is just as guilty as she is, for different things, she is the only one who is brave enough to confess to her wrong-doings, but is ostracized for them. Hawthorne uses this as a way to define how people who act out of society are picked out negatively, but those who do not and choose not to confess to things fit in.
Chapter 3
#5
•"Such an interview, perhaps, would have been more terrible than burning down upon her face, and lighting up its shame; with the scarlet token of infamy on her breast; with the sin-born infant in her arms; with a whole people, drawn forth as to a festival, staring at the features that should have been seen only in the quiet gleam of the fireside, in the happy shadow of a hoe, or beneath a matronly veil, at church."
-If Hester was to be confronted by one of the Puritans about her letter, it would be more terrible than anything. She is the main attraction to the event and the gathering is so massive that it seems as if it were a festival. In light, darkness, and happiness, she is still a sinner regardless of how the public is viewing her.
#6
•"With the same hard demeanour, she was led back to prison, and vanished from the public gaze within its iron-clamped portal."
-Although Hester was extremely happy to be released for a short period of time, regardless of the demeaning nature she endured, she was returned to the cage that was her prison where the citizens could no longer mockingly discern her. This is Hawthorne's way of describing how Hester views isolation as a peaceful solace where people can no longer judge her. Isolation is the only peace that she can find when all of society is trying to feast its eyes upon the adulterer as if she were an animal in a zoo.
Chapter 4
#7
• "After her return to the prison, Hester Prynne was found to be in a state of nervous excitement that demanded constant watchfulness, lest she should perpetrate violence on herself, or do some half-frenzied mischief to the poor babe."
-Once again using her isolation to describe her self-found safety, this time Hawthorne uses it to show that Hester does not want to be in prison via her own free will. Hester is always enlivened and acts strangely, because society views her as abnormal, she may inflict harm on herself or her child. These assumed random acts require constant supervision to protect her as well as her own child. This is showing that Hester cannot completely isolate herself from society because of the sin that she has confessed to.
#8
•I have thought of death, she said, "have wished for it,
would even have prayed for it, were it fit that such as i should pray for any thing. Yet, if death be in this cup, I bid thee think, again, ere though beholdest me quaff it. See! It is even now at my lips."
- Hester, having reason to believe that the physician could potentially poison her drink,
Chapter 5
#9
• "And over her grave, the infamy that she must carry thither would be her only monument."
-Hawthorne foreshadows that although she was born an honorable child to an honorable family, she will be buried and remembered as what society labelled her as; an adulterer.
#10
• It may seem marvellous, that, with the world before her, kept by no restrictive clause of her condemnation within the limits of the Puritan settlement, so remote and so obscure, free to return to her birthplace, or to any other European land, and there hide her character and identity under a new exterior, as completely as if emerging into another state of being, and havingalso the passes of the dark, inscrutable forest open to her, where the wildness of her nature might assimilate itself with a people whose customs and life were alien from the law that had condemned her, it may seen marvellous, that this woman should still call that place her home, where, and where only, she must needs be the type of shame.
- Disregarding how odd it may seem that Hester is outcast in a society that has little to do with nature, she can still call it her home. She could leave at any time if she truly wanted to and hide herself away in darkness, but chooses not to. Hester knows that she can still be the person society wants her to and even go beyond the expectations of the Puritans by performing good deeds and helping the people out.
Chapter 6
#11
• "The child had a native grace which does not invariably coexist with faultless beauty; but its attire, however simple, always impressed the beholder as if it were the very garb that precisely became it best. But little Pearl was not clad in rustic weeds."
-Pearl is not among the typical Puritan children who play with one another, but she however seems so different, by the way she dresses, which is seemingly different. She is different from the others because she was born of sin, and a seemingly spawn of evil.
#12
• "An imp of evil, emblem and product of sin, she had no right among christened infants."
- Pearl is completely evil in society's eyes, and because so, she has no reason to fit in with the others. If she did, it would be meaningless for Hester to have been labelled
Thursday, November 7, 2013
Dialectal Journal Chapter 1 #1 & #2 Page 45 & Page 66
#1 - Page 45:
"A throng of bearded men, in sad-colored garments and gray, steeple-crowned hats, intermixed with women, some wearing hoods, and others bareheaded, was assembled in front of a wooden edifice, the door of which was heavily timbered with oak, and studded with iron spikes."
Hawthorne uses their attire as an expression of how dull and miserable the society they live in is. He also uses the dullness of the society to show how unpleasant life is for society. It shows that no matter how everyone seems to be there is always gloominess involved in the life that they live.
#2 - Page 66:
"As she still hesitated, being, in fact, in no reasonable state of mind, he took the infant in his arms, and himself administered the draught."
Hawthorne is describing how the woman is hesitant while the society around her is rational, and if she does not agree with it, the world may make decisions for her regardless of what she wants. He also uses this to convey the message that she is not in control of what people's view of her is because she is an adulterer. People think the A stands for able, or angel but it isolates whoever wears it from society, themselves, and even God.
"A throng of bearded men, in sad-colored garments and gray, steeple-crowned hats, intermixed with women, some wearing hoods, and others bareheaded, was assembled in front of a wooden edifice, the door of which was heavily timbered with oak, and studded with iron spikes."
Hawthorne uses their attire as an expression of how dull and miserable the society they live in is. He also uses the dullness of the society to show how unpleasant life is for society. It shows that no matter how everyone seems to be there is always gloominess involved in the life that they live.
#2 - Page 66:
"As she still hesitated, being, in fact, in no reasonable state of mind, he took the infant in his arms, and himself administered the draught."
Hawthorne is describing how the woman is hesitant while the society around her is rational, and if she does not agree with it, the world may make decisions for her regardless of what she wants. He also uses this to convey the message that she is not in control of what people's view of her is because she is an adulterer. People think the A stands for able, or angel but it isolates whoever wears it from society, themselves, and even God.
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
5 Thoughts That Match Theme for Chapter 1
The first thing described in the chapter is the grass-plot before the jail, and how it was previously inhabited a large number of people. Another is the baby looking away from the sunlight as it steps outside of a darkened room (the baby could be evil?). The scaffold made of wood is described as the sole definition of ignominy, meaning that it is shameful to the people as it represents nature's ability to be dark and represents things besides good. A fourth is how the home made of stone beginning to decay can still be viewed as beautiful as well as a home. The fifth and final use of nature is the unadulterated sunshine. The sunshine is the only thing that is noticeable among the chaos and is not as pleasant as it would be if people were not in the presence of a different woman who does not entirely understand what is going on.
Monday, November 4, 2013
The Scarlet Letter - First Chapter Theme
The theme that Hawthorne uses in the first paragraph of The Scarlet Letter is the importance of nature. He describes all the details of a rose-bush as well as using it to describe how nature's weather-stains and not being maintained can be an unappealing sight. He uses nature to symbolize how pleasant things may occur, or how these pleasant things can be overshadowed by darkness. For example, he says that the rose-bush is beautiful, but around it were once trees that were killed to make way for something else.
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Pg. 432 1-4, 6-8
1.) He is invited by an old friend, Roderick Usher
2.) She becomes sicker than she had been and leads to death
3.) He is afraid of doctors digging up her body due to her strange disease
4.) No, it lacks the details that he uses to vividly describe the gloominess of the story.
6.) Setting - Poe describes the room as a dark entrapment that allows little to no light in, meaning that the entire house is full of darkness.
Character Traits - The man was a very dark type of person, who enjoyed no type of food, no music, and wore clothes of only specific texture.
Plot Developments - Madeline becomes more sick and eventually dies
Imagery - The wind was so great it almost brought them off the ground, and the wind storm had a rather negative feeling about it outside.
7.) Poe wrote The Fall of the House of Usher as a mirror into his own life, writing about himself as Roderick Usher and using Madeline, his wife who died at a young age, as a way to describe the dejection in his life that he felt after her death.
8.) No, I do not consider it meaningless, because to say that an author writing about himself is meaningless would deem millions of important historical articles meaningless. He simply writes about how the gloominess of life appears and indirectly describes how it affected him by allowing the reader to read the story as the narrator.
2.) She becomes sicker than she had been and leads to death
3.) He is afraid of doctors digging up her body due to her strange disease
4.) No, it lacks the details that he uses to vividly describe the gloominess of the story.
6.) Setting - Poe describes the room as a dark entrapment that allows little to no light in, meaning that the entire house is full of darkness.
Character Traits - The man was a very dark type of person, who enjoyed no type of food, no music, and wore clothes of only specific texture.
Plot Developments - Madeline becomes more sick and eventually dies
Imagery - The wind was so great it almost brought them off the ground, and the wind storm had a rather negative feeling about it outside.
7.) Poe wrote The Fall of the House of Usher as a mirror into his own life, writing about himself as Roderick Usher and using Madeline, his wife who died at a young age, as a way to describe the dejection in his life that he felt after her death.
8.) No, I do not consider it meaningless, because to say that an author writing about himself is meaningless would deem millions of important historical articles meaningless. He simply writes about how the gloominess of life appears and indirectly describes how it affected him by allowing the reader to read the story as the narrator.
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
Woman in the 19th Century Questions 1-4
1.) She believed that women should be treated as a living mind2.) She is better than other women who act like just women and not living minds
3.) The main idea is that women should act as if they are there own person and be true to themselves regardless of what the male society wants them to be.
4.) That she needs to disregard other people's points of view to be true to herself
3.) The main idea is that women should act as if they are there own person and be true to themselves regardless of what the male society wants them to be.
4.) That she needs to disregard other people's points of view to be true to herself
Pg. 397 Questions 1-4, 7
1.) The moral law of one's self and what he or she believes to be right
2.) Non-violently protest it by not participating in the demands of the law.
3.) Some men serve like machines, others with their conscience, and others morality. He believed that the conscience was the right way
4.) Not necessarily, because it is still just as easy not to pay taxes, however, the government will not be the first people to hunt you down like they were back then.
7.) He seems like more of a patriot to me but also acts as a traitor to show that he believed differently in things like the Mexican-American war. He asked important questions about conflicts he believed differently in but would disobey the laws non-violently. Because of the non-violent protesting, he seems patriotic, but because of the general idea of disregarding the law, he seems like a traitor.
2.) Non-violently protest it by not participating in the demands of the law.
3.) Some men serve like machines, others with their conscience, and others morality. He believed that the conscience was the right way
4.) Not necessarily, because it is still just as easy not to pay taxes, however, the government will not be the first people to hunt you down like they were back then.
7.) He seems like more of a patriot to me but also acts as a traitor to show that he believed differently in things like the Mexican-American war. He asked important questions about conflicts he believed differently in but would disobey the laws non-violently. Because of the non-violent protesting, he seems patriotic, but because of the general idea of disregarding the law, he seems like a traitor.
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Civil Disobedience Theme
In Civil Disobedience, Emerson uses the theme of civil responsibility to show that people should speak up when they believe that something is wrong. Even though the majority of the population may not agree with what you believe in, you should stand up and do something about it regardless. He argues that a corporation with conscience men is a corporation with a conscience. Because they have one, they should be doing what is right. Law is not always a just use of justice, but the men who use the right laws in the right way by presenting the proper argument about the law, however, is. He believes that unjust laws should be acted against and disobeyed until the laws are abolished or amended.
Page 388 Questions 1-3, 6, 7
1.) To find himself
2.) Simplify yourself with few things
3.) Once you've seen one thing you don't need to see it again, and you should not poke your head in other people's business like the media
6.) He believes that poor society is the most independent-lived life by support of honest means. They are the least negatively influenced by others' opinions. He believes that the poor are in the best position to experience life.
2.) Simplify yourself with few things
3.) Once you've seen one thing you don't need to see it again, and you should not poke your head in other people's business like the media
6.) He believes that poor society is the most independent-lived life by support of honest means. They are the least negatively influenced by others' opinions. He believes that the poor are in the best position to experience life.
Monday, October 21, 2013
Walden Pond Themes
Henry David Thoreau write Walden to show how he believed that faith in ones self is more important than the neediness that everyone possesses. The general idea of what he did shows that this is true because when he could have a nice home with furnishings, he instead chooses to live in the wild with rotting planks of wood as structure for his home. He believes that self-reliance is extremely important and shows this by living on his own (on someone else's land) in the wilderness. He does however value friendship and socialization, but chooses not to associate himself with society in order to show that faith in yourself is all that is needed to survive. By living in the wilderness with only essentials, another them that is identifiable is the theme of simple life, and how it is sometimes favorable over waking up and having to deal with squabbling people on the way to work. Because by living I'm the wilderness with no other people to socialize with, people like that do not have to be dealt with.
Friday, October 18, 2013
Nature Questions Pg. 375
Questions 1-3 and 6 on page 375.
1.) No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.
2.) Nature is a spiritual symbol, words are natural, and particular facts are that of spiritual ones.
3.) The occult relation of man and vegetable.
6.) Nature takes on emotion of man by being connected and always harmonized.
Emerson writes nature as a way to show how he believes nature and man to be connected. Not only does he believe that it is harmonized with man, but that nature's emotions change along with man's. He says that the greatest delight the fields minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. By this, he means that he enjoys the connection that he believes to exist between man and nature. He also states that the delight received from this connection does not ascend from man or nature, but from both when they are harmonized only as one.
1.) No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.
2.) Nature is a spiritual symbol, words are natural, and particular facts are that of spiritual ones.
3.) The occult relation of man and vegetable.
6.) Nature takes on emotion of man by being connected and always harmonized.
Emerson writes nature as a way to show how he believes nature and man to be connected. Not only does he believe that it is harmonized with man, but that nature's emotions change along with man's. He says that the greatest delight the fields minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. By this, he means that he enjoys the connection that he believes to exist between man and nature. He also states that the delight received from this connection does not ascend from man or nature, but from both when they are harmonized only as one.
Thursday, October 17, 2013
Self-Reliance Theme
Ralph Waldo Emerson writes self-reliance with the theme that no matter how strange, or unethical your ideas may be, if you believe in it, that you should trust your own ideas and the way that you live your life. For example, he says that "Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age,".
By this, he means that the most memorable men have always told the secrets of themselves during their era no matter how similar they may end up sounding to others. He believes that the men who do this are the most memorable because of their trust for themselves with output of thoughts that may not seem so normal during their time-period.
"Absolve to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world." Emerson uses this to reinforce that what you do, as long as you yourself approve of your own ideas, other people are bound to as well.
By this, he means that the most memorable men have always told the secrets of themselves during their era no matter how similar they may end up sounding to others. He believes that the men who do this are the most memorable because of their trust for themselves with output of thoughts that may not seem so normal during their time-period.
"Absolve to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world." Emerson uses this to reinforce that what you do, as long as you yourself approve of your own ideas, other people are bound to as well.
Wednesday, October 16, 2013
A Psalm of Life, How Rhyme Scheme and Stanza Structure Emphasize Poem
In A Psalm of Life written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, he rhymes the words that emphasize meaning of the points he makes. Longfellow also makes the writing more simplistic for someone trying to dissect it because of the breakdown into stanzas that he uses. Because of the rhyme scheme that he uses to describe several stanzas, it makes the poem more entertaining to read with creative mixtures of words and details. It would be much longer and more complicated if he had mixed every line of writing into a paragraph. However, Longfellow wrote the piece so that each line could be interpreted in a certain way and share meaning that he believed was how life should be lived.
2.) Our destined end is to die while trying to be remembered doing influential things.
3.) People who have lived great lives remind us that sublime decisions will be remembered
4.) Each word that is rhymed is emphasized because it carries important meaning
5.) During the battle of life, live among others as someone who will do something, or do his or her best to live an influential life of pursuing one's goals
2.) Our destined end is to die while trying to be remembered doing influential things.
3.) People who have lived great lives remind us that sublime decisions will be remembered
4.) Each word that is rhymed is emphasized because it carries important meaning
5.) During the battle of life, live among others as someone who will do something, or do his or her best to live an influential life of pursuing one's goals
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Personal Narrative
Donovan Henson
9/12/2013
English 12
When I was 16, I moved to
North Carolina; where my dad lived, away from Alaska; where my mom lived, for
eight months. It was the one of the worst times of my life. I had decided that
I was tired of Skagway, or at least tired of having what I thought was nothing to do.
Little did I know that after moving I would have even fewer things to do.
Every day I woke up, I felt so sick of North Carolina that I felt as if I was going to vomit. It wasn’t the change in climate, my family (at first), or even my friends. It was the overwhelming sense of boredom and the feeling that I would never do anything entertaining again. The nearest basketball court was a three-mile bike ride away, and for some reason my dad would always refuse me rides in the car.
Every day I woke up, I felt so sick of North Carolina that I felt as if I was going to vomit. It wasn’t the change in climate, my family (at first), or even my friends. It was the overwhelming sense of boredom and the feeling that I would never do anything entertaining again. The nearest basketball court was a three-mile bike ride away, and for some reason my dad would always refuse me rides in the car.
“Hey, dad, could I get a ride to the basketball court?”, I would
ask.
“No, there’s a bike up on the wall you can use.”
So whenever I did want to go to the court, I would take down the
bike, and ride those three miles in sweltering heat. Nearly every time I
arrived, I was so exhausted from the bike ride that I could barely muster up
enough energy to play basketball.
When I first arrived, my dad was living with my uncle, in a suburban
neighborhood occupied by mostly upper-class people white, black, and Indian people, who lived in large two-story
houses. These houses were nicer and larger than the average two-story houses;
even the basements of the house were nice and
held master bedrooms. Less than 400 yards away from my house was a
community swimming pool and outdoor basketball court. I often frequented both
of them. My dad’s plan for me was to go to a new school that just opened. I was
happy and had things I liked to do, until my dad got married. I wasn’t unhappy
because I disliked his new bride, but because his new wife and my uncle, whose
house we all lived in, did not get along.
They had arguments about things like how much salt should be in cornbread, or
why we shouldn’t eat fast-food, but said so many things behind one another’s
back, and just made their relationship worse. I would overhear my step-mom
squabbling and saying things like
“That food was so nasty and undercooked, we’re just going out to
eat.”
My uncle too said things;
“Can you believe her? She’s ridiculous.”
They both however made sure that the other would not hear their
snarky comments.
So, instead of working out their problems like adults my
step-mom convinced my dad that the only solution was moving. So, we moved into a
house with more rent, where we would no longer have a swimming pool or basketball
court, and relocated into a poor neighborhood filled with
crime. Now, the closest basketball court was three-miles away, the nearest pool
was at least ten, and I could no longer get rides from family to school unless
they were to wake up half-an-hour earlier. Because I had no rides, I had to wake
up at 6am to catch my bus.
Oddly enough, school actually gave me something to do. Instead of sitting
inside doing nothing all day, I got to meet new people. Plus, I got to
get away from my family for a bit. Although Skagway offered more opportunities,
what took up most of my time in North Carolina were sports: cross-country,
football, and basketball. My dad continued to promise that we would go to a
hockey rink and play pick-up games, but after several months, it became
apparent to me that he had other things that he prioritized over sports. However,
I could only participate in some of his hobbies, like working on motorcycles or
taking apart phones for his work.
Even though I had those few sports and hobbies to kill time with, I missed
Skagway more than I thought was possible, and after missing out on Christmas
vacation and not being able to see my friends, I was determined to come back home no matter what. I would often tell my mom that I wanted to return. After I told my dad
of the situation, instead of saying he wants me to do what’s best or being just
slightly supportive, he told me
“Some people can’t handle it.” If he meant I wanted to stop
living with people who constantly irritated me with petty arguments, then yes,
I couldn’t handle it. About mid-way through January, my mom had finally raised
enough money to get me back. During the conversations I had with my dad about moving back to Skagway, I kept telling myself that if he was to sincerely ask me to stay with him, I would puff up my chest and deal with North Carolina. But instead of being asked to stay I just kept listening to him tell me things like
"I can't handle it" or "It's too tough, I get it."
Needless to say, that's why I am in Skagway today, because I lacked the support from my dad that I needed, and I knew that my mom could give it to me in a much more applicable way. Being away from a place that I was so happy to leave, I first believed it to be great. You only realize how much home means to you once you are away from it for so long.
*Why did I want to move back to Skagway?
*How are Skagway’s athletics and opportunities different from
Northwest’s?
Wednesday, October 2, 2013
Thomas Paine Appeals
Emotional Appeals - Paine uses anger as one emotion by stating how British are stubborn and stupid, but as well uses pity because at the end, he shares that the variety of evils is a ravaged country or a depopulated city without safety and with slavery.
Ethical Appeals - Paine believed that Britain was tyrannical in their attempts to forcefully control the colonies. He knew that war was soon in order and decided to try and sway some opinions of single-minded colonists as such as loyalists. When he says The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands now deserves the thanks of a man and woman.” He says that the colonists claiming to be patriots are only patriotic when they are not needed to be, and do not fight in a patriotic way for the country that they love so dearly.
Appeals to Association - "I know our situation well, and can see the way out of it," Here, Paine is saying that battles and fighting against the higher power whether or not they will win or lose, that war is the only way to gain independence from a much higher power than the colonies.
Appeals to Authority - "I thank God that I fear not. I see no real cause for fear." He is thanking God for not being afraid, and sees no reason to be afraid, because he believes that he is on the side of God, which is the right side that will fight against Britain for freedom.
Ethical Appeals - Paine believed that Britain was tyrannical in their attempts to forcefully control the colonies. He knew that war was soon in order and decided to try and sway some opinions of single-minded colonists as such as loyalists. When he says The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands now deserves the thanks of a man and woman.” He says that the colonists claiming to be patriots are only patriotic when they are not needed to be, and do not fight in a patriotic way for the country that they love so dearly.
Appeals to Association - "I know our situation well, and can see the way out of it," Here, Paine is saying that battles and fighting against the higher power whether or not they will win or lose, that war is the only way to gain independence from a much higher power than the colonies.
Appeals to Authority - "I thank God that I fear not. I see no real cause for fear." He is thanking God for not being afraid, and sees no reason to be afraid, because he believes that he is on the side of God, which is the right side that will fight against Britain for freedom.
1.
When the shipment arrives we will collect the money. When the shipment arrives, adverb clause
2.
The club, which welcomes visitors, meets on Tuesdays. which welcomes visitors, adjective clause
3.
Diving is a skill that requires concentration. a skill that requires, adjective clause
4.
Experts predicted that the election would be close. that the election would be, noun clause
5.
Do you know where the Greek restaurant is? where the Greek restaurant is, relative adverb
6.
Is that the flute that you carved? the flute that you, adjective clause
7.
Terry didn’t hear what the score was. what the score was, adverb clause
8.
The trees that David planted are elms. that David planted,
9.
Homework was collected before class started. before class started, adverb clause
10.
Peg phoned the store when her order was not delivered. when her order was not, adverb clause
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God Reason for Writing
Logos:• Because everyone is a sinner, everyone is going to hell
•Includes his entire audience regardless
• Alluding to the bible is expert testimony to back up his belief
Pathos: •He frightens his audience by telling them there is no reason for them to fall straight to hell
• Uses hope during his sermon to share that if they continue their visits to his sermon, they will not burn in hell
•He says that if they continue to attend his sermons, they will not be condemned to hell, and that is the only reason and only thing they can do about their certain damnation
Ethos: •His allusions to Exodus and Luke
• Stating that god can cast any wicked person into hell at any time
• People already over the fiery pits of hell deserve to be there
• God pleases to cast his enemies to hell
During his sermon, Jonathan Edwards mainly uses pathos to provoke fear, worry, hope, and love in his audience. Although this is his main use of persuasion, he of course must use ethos and logos as well. He uses fear by telling his audience that god's "...natural men are held in the hand of god, over the pit of hell...". He tells his audience that they are granted an extraordinary opportunity because Christ has thrown the door of mercy wide open, and is welcoming them. He also shares that their presence at this very sermon is the only reason they are not in hell.
As well as making his audience afraid of near-everything he was saying, he used logos by implying that everyone who is a sinner, is going to hell. He includes his entire audience regardless of how wicked everyone they are believed to be. He also indirectly cites text from the bible.
The ethos he uses are other allusions to Exodus and Luke(the bible). He also tells the audience that they can be cast into the pit of hell whenever god sees fit, and that if they are over that pit that they have a reason to be there. God welcomes them should they have a reason to be over that pit.
•Includes his entire audience regardless
• Alluding to the bible is expert testimony to back up his belief
Pathos: •He frightens his audience by telling them there is no reason for them to fall straight to hell
• Uses hope during his sermon to share that if they continue their visits to his sermon, they will not burn in hell
•He says that if they continue to attend his sermons, they will not be condemned to hell, and that is the only reason and only thing they can do about their certain damnation
Ethos: •His allusions to Exodus and Luke
• Stating that god can cast any wicked person into hell at any time
• People already over the fiery pits of hell deserve to be there
• God pleases to cast his enemies to hell
During his sermon, Jonathan Edwards mainly uses pathos to provoke fear, worry, hope, and love in his audience. Although this is his main use of persuasion, he of course must use ethos and logos as well. He uses fear by telling his audience that god's "...natural men are held in the hand of god, over the pit of hell...". He tells his audience that they are granted an extraordinary opportunity because Christ has thrown the door of mercy wide open, and is welcoming them. He also shares that their presence at this very sermon is the only reason they are not in hell.
As well as making his audience afraid of near-everything he was saying, he used logos by implying that everyone who is a sinner, is going to hell. He includes his entire audience regardless of how wicked everyone they are believed to be. He also indirectly cites text from the bible.
The ethos he uses are other allusions to Exodus and Luke(the bible). He also tells the audience that they can be cast into the pit of hell whenever god sees fit, and that if they are over that pit that they have a reason to be there. God welcomes them should they have a reason to be over that pit.
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
4 Pathos of Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
•Can kill or harm yourself
• Harms other people
• Smells bad
• Sets a bad example
• Unhealthy
• More difficult for organs to properly function
• Increases your risk for mouth and/or lung cancer
• -->show figures<--
Four Pathos: Fear, Anger, Worry, Sorrow and One example of pathos is telling his entire audience that there is no reason for them not to sink through the floor to hell right now. Another is that everyone is a sinner, and are all condemned to hell but are only on earth because of their visitation to his sermon. He continuously references that everyone is guaranteed a spot in hell, but are solely going to assure a trip to elsewhere by visiting his sermon every Sunday. I feel its likely that he is telling these people what he is to assure that they return to his sermons.
Logos: The people are the devil's property whose souls are already bound unto him according to Luke 11:21
• Harms other people
• Smells bad
• Sets a bad example
• Unhealthy
• More difficult for organs to properly function
• Increases your risk for mouth and/or lung cancer
• -->show figures<--
Four Pathos: Fear, Anger, Worry, Sorrow and One example of pathos is telling his entire audience that there is no reason for them not to sink through the floor to hell right now. Another is that everyone is a sinner, and are all condemned to hell but are only on earth because of their visitation to his sermon. He continuously references that everyone is guaranteed a spot in hell, but are solely going to assure a trip to elsewhere by visiting his sermon every Sunday. I feel its likely that he is telling these people what he is to assure that they return to his sermons.
Logos: The people are the devil's property whose souls are already bound unto him according to Luke 11:21
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