Nathaniel Ayers

The Faith of a Canaanite Woman The Faith of a Canaanite woman is one of the healing stories in the book of Matthew. The purpose of these stories is to show the healing abilities of Jesus. The passage in Matthew 15:21-28 is about the Canaanite woman’s daughter that is possessed by demons. This story was a dialogue between Jesus and the Canaanite woman. This story takes place in the region between Tyre and Sidon, which is in Gentile territory (Matthew 11:21). A Canaanite woman from that area…

The song Red by Taylor Swift, contains several different literary devices throughout the song.The key literary devices used in the song are Similes, Personification, and Symbolism. Firstly, Similes are one of the most common literary devices used in the song red by Taylor Swift. A Simile is a figure of speech that involves comparing two things to make the statement more vivid. Taylor Swift state's “Loving him is like driving a new Maserati down a dead-end street” (Line 1).In this Simile I think…

Crewdson mentions in In a Lonely Place, the work of Edward Hopper, with whom I feel the same kinship with as I do with Crewdson himself. Crewdson enlightens us on how Hopper's narratives are told “in a single picture,” depicting “impregnated moments: the images seem to pose a question—and that question remains unresolved”. Hopper’s “still vignettes seem eternally suspended in an instant between “before” and “after.” It is this same kind of moment that I want to capture, where the viewer is…

In this story a minister of a small village causes the townspeople to wonder why he is wearing a black veil on his face. This veil “Swathed about his forehead, and hanging down over his face, so low as to be shaken by his breath” (Hawthorne 2). The veil may seem to be the main point to this story but it’s actually the different emotions that this veil gives the townspeople. At one time the minister was one of the most approachable and trusted people of the town. Wearing this veil caused people…

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…

The literary movement of romanticism in the 1800s had various influential writers that contributed a great deal to society. Works from the Romantics like Melville, Blake, Wordsworth, and Shelly had a very large impact on other writers and their writing styles. Many commonalities among their works created the expression of romanticism. Themes like optimism, nature, new life, and change, or lack thereof, came about. This is evident throughout the romanticism time period. Two works that have…

The total novel is influenced by Christianity deeply, it seems that all the people in Uncle Tom’s Cabinet are Christians, however most of them are hypocrisy and insincerity, their sayings are religious but acting are more cruel. For example, Simon Legree, is just an evil and bitter plantation owner. He treats black slavery as animals, after he buys Tom. Legree take Tom’s things as his things, he also feeds dogs to track the runaway black slavery. Legree also doesn’t have any humanity. He…

One of the allegorical details that can be interpreted is the literal and figurative implication of Faith. As Goodman Brown commences his journey, his longing desire to meet the Devil hints at a slight shift in his belief. Abandoning his wife, Brown shows a sign of negligence. The Devil questions Brown for his delay to which he responds, “Faith kept me back awhile” (Hawthorne 2). The “faith” here symbolizes both Goodman Brown’s wife, Faith, as well as his religious belief. In a literal sense,…

A person's physical appearance can change the way others perceive and treat them. In the Minister’s Black Veil, the citizens describe Mr. Hooper as a nice guy who many trusted, “Mr. Hooper, a gentlemanly person, of about thirty, though still a bachelor, was dressed with due clerical neatness and if a careful wife had starched his band, and brushed the weekly dust from his Sunday’s garb” (Hawthorne 1). Before he started wearing his black veil, the townspeople believed he was a good, trustworthy…

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…