Anne Fadiman

Hester’s Self- Made Identity, and The Identity Society Burdens Her With: In The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the main turmoil of the story follows a young woman who is burdened by the austere constraints of the Puritanical society she lives in. For her punishment of adultery, she is forced to wear a scarlet letter on her chest at all times representing her shame for the world to see. Throughout the novel, the letter, among other things, gains a vulgar reputation in the town to which…

Thesis statement: Anne Frank was a young Jewish who was known for her diary that documented her life during the German Holocaust. Introduction: Attention getter: Imagine living in a confined space with 7 other people, and not having any contact with the outside world. Doesn’t sound fun right? Engage audience: I just described how Anne Frank, her family, and 4 others had to live for over a little over 2 years. Preview main points: Today, I will talk to you about Anne’s life before…

The Diary of Anne Frank is a nonfiction story almost like an autobiography. In the book Anne faces many hard times because they were in hiding during the holocaust. I think that the theme is that, you should try to be happy even if the situation you are in isn’t the best. Anne tries make the Annex a happy place like when it was Hanukkah and everyone was talking about how they could not get presents that year, and she said “Presents!“. That lifted the spirit of the holiday because everyone…

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter is an exploration into the protagonist, Hester Prynne. It further examines her intrinsic persona and how internal and external forces affect her and how it transforms the mindsets of those later. Very little is revealed about Hester previous to her affair. Released from prison, Hester appears before the puritan community on a platform where she is to be publicly scorned, exposing the scarlet “A” for adulterer is embroidered on the breast of her garment.…

Anti- Jewish laws. But now, as the year 1947 rolls by, a dad was able to fulfil his little girl’s wish. That dad was Otto Frank. The Frank family was a Jewish family and was forced to live in hiding till the war was over. Otto’s youngest daughter, Anne, wrote a diary, and Otto published it making her wish come true, which was her being an author. However, not everyone in the Frank family was able to see the war end and was able to see Anne’s diary published. Only Otto survived the war. “Well,…

The narrator’s attitude towards the Puritans is very negative. He portrays them as unforgiving and cold-hearted people. The Puritans believe that people who have sinned must confess their sins and be punished for them. They punish anybody who has sinned and use them as an example to others. This is the case with Hester Prynne because she has committed adultery and is condemned to wear a scarlet letter on all of her clothing to show the crime she has committed. She was also forced to stand on a…

Cornelia “Corrie” ten Boom was born in Haarlem, Netherlands, on April 15, 1892. She was the youngest of 4 siblings (two sisters and a brother.) her father, Casper ten Boom, was a renowned jeweler and watchmaker. Corrie became Holland’s first female watchmaker. After Corrie’s mother passed away from heart failure, Corrie busied herself with helping her father in the shop and she started a girl’s youth club in which she taught Bible, crafts, sewing, and performing arts. In 1940, the ten Boom way…

In my opinion, “The Green Glass Sea” by Ellen Klages is an amazing book. “The Green Glass Sea” is about a little girl named Dewey who goes to a place the book calls “The Hill” to live with her father. “The Hill” is the place where during World War II, scientists came together to help make the nuclear bombs, or as they call it, “the gadget,” that would be dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. All throughout the book, Dewey faces many problems such as adjusting to her new life, being bullied, and her…

During the 1600's there was a type of punishment in Puritan society where someone would have to wear a scarlet letter on their shirt. This was for the reason of public humiliation so people would be discouraged to do anything bad. In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne the main character Hester Prynne is being punished for a crime she committed and the punishment was public humiliation so she was forced to wear a scarlet letter. She was being discriminated and left out of society. In this…

The Man Who Left a Huge Impact; Peter the Great Peter I, the second-crowned czar of Russia, was the most efficient ruler of Russia. Also known as Peter the Great, he died February 8, 1725. Peter ruled from May 7, 1682 until November 2, 1721. Peter is the son of Alexis of Russia and Natalya Naryshkina. In 1689, Peter married his first wife, chosen by his mother, Eudoxia Lopukhina, however after nine years, Peter decided that he really was not in love with his wife, and he got divorced. Peter had…