Ezequiel Montes 24 January 2011 Mrs. Yee English/Period 4 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a great historical figure who helped the civil rights movement. He believed in non-violence and led the march on Washington. This amazing man gave a great speech entitled “I have a dream.” In the end he helped people of all races get equal rights‚ but what happened in his life for this great outcome. The reason Dr. King believed in non-violence was because he modeled
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Andrea The Scarlet Letter-Analysis of chapters 13 & 14 In Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ The Scarlet Letter Chapters 13 and 14 has a real importance to the novel. One of Hawthorne’s key ideas in the two chapters is the change of Hester. Hawthorne is also trying to emphasis the theme element of identity. The bound of Humanity is also of great value to the book. The thematic elements that are present in Chapters 13 and 14 help create the importance of Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ The scarlet Letter. Throughout the
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The Scarlet Letter: Glossary Term Assessment Short Entries 1. Personification: When an inanimate object is abstractly given human qualities. Example: "The soul beheld it’s features in the mirror of the passing moment" (173 Top of page) 2. Rhetorical question: A question that is expected not to be answered or it has an obvious one. Example: "Is there not law for it?" (Page 45 top of page) 3. Metaphor: A comparison of objects without using like or as. Example:"... poor little Pearl
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that people live by is that evil is the nature of mankind‚ yet there are others that feel man has good intentions but those intentions can be overrun by the devil. Nathaniel Hawthorne points out that the former is true of all people in the novel The Scarlet Letter. In this novel‚ there are three main characters who commit evil and sinful acts‚ but each act is at a different degree of sinfulness (i.e. the sins get worse as the story goes a-long). These three sinners‚ in the eyes of the Puritan community
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The puritan era was a time of strife for many early American settlers. They felt the world was at war between the forces of good and the forces of evil. This contention was made evident in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel The Scarlet Letter as the author combines the physical‚ moral and mental state of Roger Chillingworth to highlight the theme of revenge and the evil obsession that takes over Chillingworth’s soul. Hawthorne’s use of figurative language connects Chillingworth’s misshapen form with
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Read the following passage from Nathaniel Hawthorn’s The Scarlet Letter. In a well-organized response‚ analyze how the author’s use of language influences both mood and tone. The scene was not without a mixture of awe‚ such as must always invest the spectacle of guilt and shame in a fellow-creature‚ before society shall have grown corrupt enough to smile‚ instead of shuddering‚ at it. The witnesses of Hester Prynne’s disgrace had not yet passed beyond their simplicity. They were stern enough to
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Kayla Lang 1/21/14 Sin Victimizes the Innocent In the novel The Scarlet Letter‚ Nathaniel Hawthorne explores the idea of sin and how it affected those in the Puritan era. Hester Prynne‚ with her baby in her arms‚ is ridiculed in front of the entire town. Hester and her daughter are shunned to a house on the outskirts of town‚ isolating them from the Puritan community. Pearl and Hester grow up in the town alone as social outcasts‚ but they do have each other. Pearl is raised by her single mother
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Jason Bello AP English March 22‚ 2000 The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald are two novels‚ which address similar themes with completely opposite resolves. The authors use their main characters‚ Hester‚ Dimmesdale‚ Gatsby‚ and Daisy‚ in their respective works to present these themes. The action in both novels revolves around unfaithfulness‚ its effects on the characters‚ and the results of committing adultery‚ which prove to be antipode from
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Analysis—Chapters 1–2 These chapters introduce the reader to Hester Prynne and begin to explore the theme of sin‚ along with its connection to knowledge and social order. The chapters’ use of symbols‚ as well as their depiction of the political reality of Hester Prynne’s world‚ testify to the contradictions inherent in Puritan society. This is a world that has already “fallen‚” that already knows sin: the colonists are quick to establish a prison and a cemetery in their “Utopia‚” for they know
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down and actually explore how they share similar themes. Through careful analysis of The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthrone and The Crucible by Arthur Miller; you can see the evidence that supports the fact that both of these two works are somewhat related. These themes include sin‚ punishment of sin‚ the devil‚ and love/lust. The most obvious theme contained in both works is sin. In The Scarlet Letter‚ the sin that has been committed is adultery and has produced an illegitimate
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