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The rose bush in this excerpt at the beginning of the book signifies the one thing that seems to bloom despite the harsh rules and restrictions that the Puritan society bestow upon all who reside there. Much like the rose bush, Hester Prynne flowers and remains strong through her shame and ridicule despite the harsh condemnation of the puritan settlement.…
The same issue was again before the court in 1945 in McClintic v. Dunbar Land Co. The case involved six notes that were secured by a vendors’ lien. The notes were payable on a sequential, consecutive basis with the first becoming payable on November 26, 1920 and the last on November 26, 1925. The plaintiffs filed the action for non-payment of the notes in 1943. The defendants contended that W. Va. Code § 55-2-5 barred action on the first three notes because more than 20 years had passed.…
A developer called Riverside Bayview Homes (respondent) owned 80 acres of land in Michigan, and intended to dredge and fill wetlands that existed on its property, in order to build homes. Under the provisions of the Clean Water Act, the Army Corps of Engineers (petitioner on behalf of the U.S.) felt that RBH should not be permitted to do so and filed suit in Federal District Court, seeking an immediate injunction in order to prevent the continuation of this project. The COE felt that the land owned by RBH was subject to jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act because of its adjacency to navigable water, and therefore (under section 404(a) of the CWA) required a permit in order to be dredged and filled. Under the Clean Water Act, a freshwater…
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| Rose bush grows in such an unlikely place to offer comfort to prisoners entering the jail and forgiveness from Nature to those leaving it to die on the scaffold. The rosebush by the window of the prison is wild. It symbolizes freedom from the confinement of society. These soft, red roses offer a small but bold contrast to the strict, black and white world of the puritans. The vibrant flowers give a splash of life to the monotonous, dreary scene…
The Squatter and the Don is a fictional novel that depicts the experiences of Americans and Spanish people in California following the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo and the legalisation of squatting on ‘vacant lands’. This paper will focus on the ways the passage “Come, let us show...despoiled, forgotten.” (Burton 81) is important in the larger context of the book and to society at the time it was written. This will be done by analysing the various literary techniques the author employed and their impact on readers. This passage is situated just after Clarence arrives in Southern California and is asked to request the attendance of the squatters at a meeting with Don Mariano.…
The letter she sends to Mr. Lewis about his grandson stealing from his store is meant to help him but it does the opposite, it makes him very upset and stressed (Jackson 1). Miss Strangeworth has good intentions for sending the letter to Mr. Lewis, she wants to tell him about the possibility about theft in his store, but the letter just gets Mr. Lewis stressed and it gets him worried about something he may have never given a second thought before. Her letter to Linda’s parents about Harris also causes more harm than good (Jackson 8). Linda’s parents never thought about her relationship with Harris and everything was normal before they received the letter, however, a lot of problems arose after they saw Miss Strangworth’s letter. Linda’s parents, Linda and Harris, all get very upset over the letter and over her father’s decisions about restricting her from seeing Harris. She creates a vast problem in their family by interfering with issues which did not concern her at all by trying to help them. Lastly, her letter to Helen Crane about her child also creates unnecessary stress in Helen’s life (Jackson 5). Miss Strangworth tries to offer her advice about how her child may not be normal. All the letters she sends are based completely on her own assumption and she possesses no facts to prove what she…
Miss Strangeworth’s garden is referenced to many times throughout the story. The roses are a great symbolism to Miss Strangeworth herself. Just like a rose’s soft, pretty petals, Miss Strangeworth appears to be a nice, elderly woman. Just like a rose secretly has sharp thorns, Miss Strangeworth has her pointed side as well. The roses are also a parallel to Miss Strangeworth in the end. Those being destroyed just like her reputation in the town is.…
Shirley Jackson tells us about a very interesting character in the short story titled “The Possibility of Evil.” In the story Miss Strangeworth is an old lady who takes it as her duty too inform the town of evil, but one day one of her evil informing letters gets in the wrong hands and her favorite roses are cut. In this essay the character of Miss Strangeworth is described through her physical description, family, lifestyle and her hobbies.…
She only deals in the “more negotiable stuff of suspicion.” Because of this, the people receiving the letters do become more aware of “evil” but not so they can avoid it, so they can confirm it. The people receiving the letters are worried and threatened by the information. The effects of the letters cause more degrade than good. The people are stressed; they are also hurt and distracted by what they have read in Miss Strangeworth’s cruel letters. Ultimately, the pain she has caused is turned back on her. She has driven the quiet, respectful, caring town’s folk to perform an uncharacteristically mean act of revenge. Destroying her precious roses. Miss Strangeworth was correct in her belief that evil “lurks in the hearts of all men” but it is her own attempts to control it or stamp it out that brings it out into the open in her town. She had seen nothing reprehensible in her own actions. Ironically it was a good deed by a young boy, he affected by one of the letters, which brought her actions out into the open. Had he not delivered the letter she dropped, the identity of the letter writer may never have been…
The benefit of the neighborhood or society has been fulfilled and maximized to the extent she can plant less flowers.…
Miss Strangeworth enjoyed writing harsh letters to her neighbors, showing her jealous personality towards her neighbors. After thinking for a minute, although she had been phrasing the letter in the back of her mind all the way home, she wrote on a pink sheet with harsh words. She was pleased with the letter. I suppose Miss Strangeworth wrote this letter because deep down, she does not have a family and by letting this person feel terrible, it supposedly makes her feel better. Maybe if Miss Strangeworth was a little more outgoing, she might find the things she wants in life. She selected a green sheet this time and wrote quickly with harsher words. Again, Miss Strangeworth wrote another nasty letter to one of her neighbors.…
For the majority of The Lottery Rose, Georgie Burgess had absolute hatred for Molly Harper because when Georgie snuck out and planted his rosebush in her garden. The next day when she saw the rosebush and multiple bulbs out of the ground, she was furious and ripped the rosebush out of the soil it was in and threw it down onto the road. Mrs. Harper then proceeded to tell Georgie that if she ever saw him trying to plant his rosebush anywhere on her property she would rip it out of the fragile soil again, but throw it in the incinerator. This made George beyond angry at Mrs. Harper because that rosebush was his only friend/family and she just hurt and disrespected it.…
Mrs Dubose, a lady who usually shouts abuse at the children, has, what it seems, a lovely garden. Atticus even comments on how nice her flowers are. However when Jem gets sick of the way she treats the children, he picks all of her flower heads…
After reading the story “Marigolds”, a question popped up. This question was why did Lizabeth destroy Miss Lottie’s marigolds. Lizabeth, as a child, lived in a small ghetto town with dust covering mostly everything. The only color she could remember besides brown was the “brilliant splash of sunny yellow against the dust-Miss Lottie’s marigolds” (Collier, p.124). One day, in the middle of the night, she goes over to Miss Lottie’s shack and destroys the flowers. Lizabeth lost control over herself that day because of three reasons. First reason is that she misses her mother who is never home because she has to work so much. Second reason is that she is going through that time in life when a teenager figures out who they truly are inside and grow in to an adult. The third reason is that she is tired of the poverty and having to live in the ghetto.…