“The Hollow of the Three Hills” illustrates his view through the main character, that life is short, and you need to do the right things while you have the time.Hawthorne’s life, what he did, and what happened to him, greatly influenced his writings, in fact, that is the only basis in which he wrote upon. When he graduated from Bowdoin College in
,,,,,,,, Nathaniel Hawthorne is considered one of the best American fiction writers. His novels and short stories are deeply concerned with the ethical problems of sin, punishment, and redemption. Hawthorne's exploration of these themes was related to the sense of guilt he felt about the roles of his ancestors in the 17th-century persecution of Quakers. In his works, Puritanism is portrayed as an expression of "humanity's potential for cruelty, obsession, and intolerance." .Many of his masterpieces are influenced by Hawthorne's life events and his belief that the misfortunes of his immediate family were the result of divine vengeance for the sins of his ancestors.
Hawthorne was born in Salem, Massachusetts, and he was descended from a line of loyal Puritans that included persecutors of the Quakers and judges at the famous Salem witch trials. He first thought of his family background as the cause of God's punishment at the age of four, when his father died leaving his grief-stricken mother