THE HOLLOW OF THE THREE HILLS The Hollow of the Three Hills is a story of dishonor‚ deceit‚ and death. The author‚ Nathaniel Hawthorne portrays the main character as a beautiful woman with a shameful and abominable past. She tries to run from her problems but comes to find out no matter how big or small a problem‚ trying to run from it will only make the problem follow. The main character was so driven by curiosity and remorse that she brought herself to go see a witch. They met in a place
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in Norcombe Hill. Gabriel Oak is a small time farmer with 200 sheep. One day he sees a wagon‚ with a beautiful woman inside‚ Bathsheba. He instantly falls in love with her. However he finds that she is quite vain but her flaws don’t deter his love. After meeting her a few times‚ he goes to her aunt to ask for her hand in marriage; he is however rejected‚ by her aunt and then Bathsheba as she felt she was above him. Later on‚ Gabriel’s sheep dog chases his flock of sheep over the hill‚ killing most
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"The movie‚ “Thank You for Smoking” is a comedy-drama about a tobacco industry lobbyist‚ Nick Naylor. The movie brings up serious issue of the addicting substance tobacco and its various effects on human’s health. In the opening scene of “Thank You for Smoking”‚ Nick has committed three fallacies: 1. “Joan‚ how on earth would Big Tobacco profit off of the loss of this young man... It’s in our best interest to keep Robin alive and smoking.” There is an element of False Analogy. He draws a weak comparison
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England’s mighty army and the navy‚ the loyalist who were colonists who fought on the Kings side‚ some hired Indians and a lot of Hessians who were also hired as Mercenaries. The important battles in the revolution were The Battle at Bunker Hill because it showed them that they need an ally that produces supplies like gunpowder. The Battle at New York was important because it showed them that the rebels needed training. The Battle at Trenton was important because it was the first win for the
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Daniel Chachanashvili English 2150 English 2150‚ Section KTRC Essay I Spring 2013 six elements of fiction :plot‚ character‚ setting‚ point of view‚ voice and style‚ and theme. “The theme of a story abstracts its meaning from the concrete details of its plot‚ point of view‚ characterization‚ setting‚ and style” “Theme is a generalization
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The Hollow of the Three Hills is a story of dishonor‚ deceit‚ and death. The author‚ Nathaniel Hawthorn portrays the main character as a beautiful woman with a shameful and abominable past. She tries to run from her problems. The main character was so driven by curiosity and remorse that she brought herself to go see a witch. They met in a place described by Hawthorne as "a hollow basin‚ almost mathematically circular‚ two or three hundred feet in breadth‚...the resort of the Power of Evil and
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Stereotypical women who flees to escape come back drenched in sorrow and remorse. The old lady in the story displays the foolishness of evading just to regret afterwards. She assumed that she would be happy even after she left her husband‚ daughter‚ and her parents. What was priceless seemed like a burden that only suppressed her. After the lady evades‚ she suffers in such grievance that leads her to the witch and eventually‚ death. This repertory appears commonly in famous movies and dramas; her
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Themes of the Hollow of the three Hills: -main character as a beautiful woman with a shameful and abominable past. -trying to run from it will only make the problem follow. -character as someone who is a plighted subject who had such a secret that she had to be where "no mortal could observe them. -She wanted this witch to help her see and hear what was happening with her loved ones; but she only had one hour to do so and after this one hour she would die Hawthorne did not come out and said
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Comparing the novel The Haunting of Hill House and the movie Poltergeist‚ there are many common factors they share. Both have a female character as a protagonist and a spirit as an antagonist. The two literatures‚ in print and film‚ also have the heart of the house revolving around a child’s setting. There are still more similarities between both the book and movie‚ as there are dissimilar. The Haunting of Hill House is taking place in a setting where all of the characters are adult‚ as supposed
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Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson‚ Jackson exemplifies how a setting should be for a gothic novel. She uses modern psychology‚ and old ghost stories. These elements make the person reading her story‚ ponder what exactly is real and what is not. When you combine the nature of the characters of the story in Hill House with the events taking place in the house‚ the premise of the house being haunted‚ could quite possibly be a reality. The characters add to that conclusion.
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