New England Colonies

original story. In the film, as in the novella, Ethan Frome depicts the story of a scandalous love triangle between Ethan (Liam Neeson), a farmer, Zeena (Joan Allen), Ethan’s sickly wife, and Mattie (Patricia Arquette), Zeena’s caretaker set in a dull New England town. These three characters, all with very different in personalities, trapped in a claustrophobic farmhouse in the dead of winter, make for an interesting story to watch unfold. The director, John Madden did a great job in capturing…

is well on its way to brining devastation to the land again. Wharton says in “Authors not to Ethan Frome” that she porpously makes Starkfiels a very dark place. She explains that she is inspired by the “harsh and beautiful” land that takes over New England. This harshness is necessary to Starkfield because it creates the…

resulted in the two men ordering the declaration for the War of 1812. As a result of the declaration, the country was torn in half – one half; the Westerners and Southerners, were pro-war while the other half; the New Englanders, were firmly against the war.…

Growing up in Chicago has provided numerous opportunities to engage with multiple ethnic cultures and customs through food, music and numerous social interactions. Those various ethnic cultures have also coalesced into a cultural kaleidoscope that has fundamentally shaped the culture of the metropolis and the way that I digest the sociocultural norms of my hometown. Therefore, when someone [myself included] identifies ‘Chicago culture,’ we are essentially referencing a geographical culture and…

Patricia Lyons
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April 4th, 2017 Eaton’s Boatyard Philip Booth’s poem, “Eaton’s Boatyard,” is a clear and distinct look into some of his time spent near or even in a place by the same name. Growing up on the New England coastline, and Castine, Maine, there is no question where the inspiration for the name of the poem comes from. The content of the works are rather revealing, Booth takes the reader on a Maine-esque tour of what it may have been like to grow up on the…

“To an Athlete Dying Young” & “Ex-Basketball Player” In Both, “To an Athlete dying Young” and “Ex basketball player”, We experience several poetic devices that compare and contrast eachother in these fairly similar poems. In the poem written by John Updike, “Ex-Basketball Player”, Flick a fictional character is stuck in a loop and his daunting past wrecks his current future. In this poem flicks past shows a young basketball player is praised for setting several records and being a country…

no-nonsense Puritans. Both groups represent a part of America and the future of a nation. Of course, this short story is loosely based on a true historical event, and Hawthorne is clearly commenting on the attitudes and feelings of opposing ideals in this “new world”. Just look at the debate between Bradford and Morton and their views of how to interact and deal with this foreign land. We need look no further than Hawthorne’s story to see that he is divided on the issue and seems to take no…

and the tone and style. Although these two books are different, written by two different people, they also share similarities. Some similarities from these two books are that the authors, Smith and Bradford, arrived in America originating from England, at the edge of starvation and death due to a jaunt overseas,…

The Use of Setting in The Last of the Mohicans The 1750’s was a rough time on the frontier, young America, then just a colony, was engulfed in war - not for independence, but for land. Set in the wilderness of upper New York, James Fenimore Cooper's, The Last of the Mohicans, is one of the first great works of American literature solidifying Cooper as the first truly American author. ¨As a pioneer of literature, James Fenimore Cooper did not use a European background to attract readers as…

Vermont today is known as an environmental leader. Burlington Vermont is considered the greenest city in the country. When people today think of Vermont the think of the beautiful foliage and maple syrup industry. This however has not always been the case. Vermont at one point was an environmentalist’s nightmare. George Perkins Marsh was one of the states first environmentalists. He was born in 1801 and from that year on his father taught him about the landscape around him.…