Cover Letter Essay

The Vietnam Conflict introduced many side effects that were detrimental to the soldiers that participated. These effects range from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), general disdain from the public, and even loss of innocence. As seen by William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, loss of innocence is a topic associated with traumatic events that authors utilize to portray how inimical they are to humans. Tim O’Brien, the author of The Things They Carried, exemplifies this in his writing. He…

Pearl is a unique young child who needs a certain amount of attention, but can anyone provide her with what she needs? In The Scarlet Letter written by Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1850, Pearl deals with almost being taken away from her mother Hester, this then leads to the question who should truly be taking care of Pearl? Although Hester is her mother it seems to others that she is not teaching her the proper Puritan ways. Meanwhile there are also two men named Dimmesdale and Chillingworth that are…

There was once a Goddess protecting the lustrous frosted stars. Among the other deities, she felt that nothing went her way and hated herself in any case. The stars were graceful and dazzling without her help. They grew to be independent of her power. To hide from all the pain and sorrow of feeling impotent, the goddess went off on a search for a place to hide away. There stood a soulless land, surrounded by a large body of water. In the depths of the vast dead sea, the goddess found a rocky…

sheet behind him. The teacher closed her eyes, he then said “open your eyes” and he held up the paper. He wrote his name perfectly paying attention to upper case to begin his name and all his letters were sitting on the line, he left a space between his first and last name and he didn’t miss out any letters. The teacher showed him a look of surprise, happiness and admiration, from then, he would constantly come to play and spend time with the teacher. Sometimes, there is still the need to…

The Scarlet Letter focuses heavily on the romantic movement and what conflicted it at that time. Hawthorn uses these characters as outlets for showing the romantic movement and how it was put into action while also being ridiculed. Hawthorne wrote the Scarlet Letter to communicate how following the beliefs of the Romantic movement helps lead people to achieving their best moral life; their passion is the most natural feeling, how society ridicules the people who: believe in the romantic movement…

What single sin could one woman have possibly committed to have the sun not shine on her? The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne was written during the 1840’s in Salem and Concord, Massachusetts. Throughout the novel, Hawthorne uses the symbols of light and dark to depict good and evil among the main characters Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale, and Roger Chillingworth. The main character was Hester Prynne she had committed adultery which at the time was the worst thing anyone could do. Which…

Scarlet Letter Theme In the Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne the main characters Hester Prynne and Reverend Dimmesdale both committed the same sin, adultery. Hester became pregnant and was publicly shamed; however, none of the Puritans of Boston were the wiser about Dimmesdale’s sin. He alone lived with the constant knowledge of his sin. Whereas, Hester had everyone to share it with. Sin must be brought to light in order to be redeemed. Dimmesdale received many opportunities to confess…

that were not thought to be there at first. She later comes to be identifying the letter with “sunshine”, that she is short of from life. Because she is only a child she doesn’t understand what she. She suddently starts to ask questions and this gets her mother upset. Making a mild suggestion that all women wear an “A”. thinking as every woman as equal and pearls mother just representing every women for wearing the letter. Reacting to this passage as a reader, im impressed by the character of…

real life, Daniel Hawthorne proves its truth in his novel The Scarlet Letter. Within the novel, the townspeople punish the main character Hester for her sin of adultery. As a result, the townspeople and the jury require Hester to wear a scarlet letter upon her chest. The author hides Hester’s counterpart in the crime of adultery from the public and for seven years he never confesses his sin. Throughout the book The Scarlet Letter, the author, Hawthorne, conveys the idea that unexpressed sin can…

Puritanical Mores in The Scarlet Letter In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, a young, female adulterer residing in a 17th century Puritan community faces public shame for her sin by wearing a scarlet letter A on her chest, leading her to support herself and her daughter single handedly, which reflects the inability of the various Catholic followers to escape their social expectations and follow individual will. Pearl, Hester’s daughter, metaphorically represents the purity from the…