Nathaniel Ayers

“God looks beyond our fault and sees our need” (Boyle, 52). God knows and look for the sins people have made but God sees and know what they need. I prepare the story of Carmen. I have an experience about the story of Carmen in our place. He is always drunk and shouting on the road like Carmen. He says that nobody loves him and he was Dis -Grace. When he realize he felt very shameful. Like Carmen she is always in the street shouting and an addict. Carmen also says that she is a Dis -Grace.…

Rip Van Winkle Essay Brooklyn Loberg American Lit Rip van Winkle is an American Short story. This story is based on local history and European legend and myth. The author wrote it in one night in June of eighteen-eighteen. Irving wrote this story after spending the whole day with his relatives. Washington Irving’s story Rip Van Winkle was positioned in the 1700’s previous to the revolutionary war. The story is based on a man named Rip Van Winkle. Rip Van Winkle lives in a small village at…

today. One of these religious groups to first arrive in America were the Puritans. The Puritan community was a strict Christian community that lived under rigid rules that controlled their everyday life. Nathaniel Hawthorne explores the Puritan community in his novel The Scarlet Letter. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel The Scarlet Letter, he uses symbols such as the scaffold, the scarlet letter and Pearl to create a tone of harshness to represent the Puritan society. Hawthorne…

Apathy It is claimed by some biologists that a frog can be placed in lukewarm water in a shallow open container, leaving it the option of easily jumping out, and the water can be slowly heated until the frog is cooked to death. It will not jump out to save its life because the gradual process lulls the frog into a state of deadly apathy until it’s too late. To the frog, the warm water felt good. It didn’t seem to be a threat. But as time unfolded, it brought death. In the same way, many people…

As a stark contrast to today’s culture having a scant amount of repercussions, the Puritans had considerably more numerous disciplinary actions that were noticeably harsher. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter is heavily centered on how the Puritan people face guilt and sin in ways their religion and culture allowed. As the plot develops, the four main characters-Hester Prynne, Pearl Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale, and Roger Chillingsworth- reach individual development by dealing with the…

The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, takes place in Boston, Massachusetts in the 1640s. One of the main characters in this work is Hester Prynne, a young woman of the colony who is discovered to be an adulteress and condemned to wear a scarlet letter for the remainder of her life. Her partner in sin is a young Puritan minister of high repute, Arthur Dimmesdale. In the act of adultery, Hester conceives a child, whom she names Pearl. Another main character is Hester Prynne’s former husband,…

I can’t really feel as if good Mr. Hooper’s face was behind that piece of crape,” said the sexton. I feel as if Mr. Hooper was battling with his own sin. He thought his face was going to reveal all of his transgressions which is why he kept his face concealed from the congregation and his fiancée. From my point of view, it sounds like our main character Mr. Hooper is suffering from his very own wrong doing. In article 1 lines 4 and 5 it states that Individuals could no longer see his kindness or…

Although, many will argue Hester along with the other characters in the book are human and nobody is perfect hence why they commit sin there is an exception the characters in the book portray to be someone who they are not. Because even though someone can hide the fact that they have committed sin it will still come back around somehow and they will have to face reality. In Hawthorne’s, The Scarlet letter is written about Hester’s love life, the sin she committed, and morality. In the book, he…

“The Kite Runner”, involving with diverse actors such as Khalid Abdalla (Amir), Ahmad Khan Mahmoodzato (Hassan), Homayoun Ershadi (Baba), Elham Ehsas (Assef), and Shaun Toub (Rhamir Khan) has been a magnificent movie. This realistic story began in Kabul, Afghanistan in 1975. During this period there were a lot of contextualization, mainly the Russians and the Talibans. Two young boy at the age of twelve, named Amir and Hassan were bestfriend, thought Hassan was Amir’s servant. Each relied on one…

In the book Sophia’s War by Avi the main character Sophia witnesses things that change her life completely. At the beginning of the book, Sophia is only 12 years old, a young and innocent child. Her family if fleeing from the war which has moved into her city, New York. When her father finally decides that it is safe enough Sophia and her mother to go back they start out to their old home. On the way they see many rebel and loyalist soldiers they try to stay away, but they end up being in the…