Anne Fadiman

“Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature”, a quote by Opie Read, which holds true in The Scarlet Letter. Throughout the novel, many lies were told, sins committed and acts of hate and discrimination occurred in the town, which was thought to be civilized, pure and in strict order. On the other hand in the forest, which was viewed as a place where immortality and sins were committed, actually has the opposite meaning than it’s suspected to represent. The forest was where some…

Many people think that society has moved on from puritan like rules, social standards, as well as qualities that happened, shown in The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne. But it has not. Today is almost as it was nearly 400 years ago, with the same judgment and hypocrisy passed on people who may have “sinned” or have not held to other people’s standards, which those people may not even keep themselves. The puritan religion was ideally about being as pure as one could be. But in almost all…

Number The Stars is a great book based upon a true story. It is placed in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1941. Years after the war started, the Nazis started to patrol the streets. There are two main characters, Annemarie Johansen and Ellen Rosen, which are best friends. Annemarie and Ellen come face to face with a wild adventure that reveals the danger of knowing the untold, knowing the untold secrets, and knowing the told lies, and the. One of their lives is in serious danger. Annemarie and Ellen…

According to Poetry Foundation, Anne Bradstreet was born in 1612. She didn't attend school, though she was tutored by her father Bradstreet favored literature, most of her time was spent on reading. Once she was sixteen years old she married Simon Bradstreet who assisted her father, Thomas Dudley and eventually had eight children. As a young adult she wrote numerous short poems; “To My Dear and Loving Husband,” “A Letter to Her Husband, Absent Upon Public Employment,” and “The Author to Her…

Hitler had a severe hatred towards Jewish people and many others who he did not feel were right for the "perfect race". A particular story was more popular than the others, and that was the story of Anne Frank. Her legacy lives on, and inspires people to never give up and stand for what they believe in. Anne wrote in a diary called kitty and treated it as a real person. It was her little friend who she could tell anything to. Almost everything we know today about the Frank family is known…

In Nathanial Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne must wear a scarlet A to mark her shame. Her lover, Arthur Dimmesdale, remains unidentified and is wracked with guilt, while her husband, Roger Chillingworth, seeks revenge. Hester Prynne is forced to suffer under the staring of the townspeople because of the scarlet letter that she wears upon her breast. Hester committed a sin, that in those times, were unforgivable and her punishment was to be known for what she did and to be…

Anne was taken to the concentration camp Auschwitz with her older sister Margot Frank. The two sisters escaped the immediate death sentence in Auschwitz to Bergen-Belsen in Northern Germany. However their mother, Edith Frank, had remained at the death camp. Anne kept a diary of her life experiences and her emotions towards these experiences. Anne started her diary in the year 1942 when she was thirteen years old. The Frank…

write in Latin. While traveling of the continent, he met Sir Robert Cecil. (“Baltimore”) Even when Calvert was young, he was very passionate about the discovery and settlement of foreign countries. (“Our Country”) In 1604, George Calvert married Lady Anne Mynne of Hurlington, Herts at St. Peters Cornhill in London. (“Land”) Together…

Mary Stuart, who was well known as Mary, Queen of Scots, was born in Linlithgow Palace, West Lothian, Scotland on December 8, 1542. Mary was the daughter of Mary of Guise and King James V of Scotland. Mary of Guise was King James V’s second wife. When Mary Stuart’s father passed she became Mary, Queen of Scots. She was only six days old when she became Queen. Because Mary was so young, Mary’s uncle, Henry VIII tried to take control of power. Mary of Guise was the one to act as regent on for her…

The Devil’s Arithmetic has been made from a book into a movie, but the movie does not follow the exact details of the book. The stories are generally the same, but many of the specific parts of the book aren’t in the movie, or vice versa. Both the book and the movie tell the story of a girl transported to the past. While she learns of her family’s past in the concentration camps, different events happen in the different tellings of the story: the book and the movie. The Devil’s Arithmetic the…