Scarlett

Cole Matthews, in Touching Spirit Bear, is a normal looking kid with a few exceptions. He wore blue jeans and a shirt. “His blue jeans, heavy wool shirt and jacket…”p.5. Cole has dirty blond hair and is a 15 and a young looking kid.”He was an innocent-looking, baby-faced fifteen-year-old…”p.5 He is approximately 5’6 and 150 pounds. Cole is a narcissistic juvenile delinquent who thinks he is the centre of a attention. Cole is the bully of his neighbourhood to be his friend with him you need to…

Much like everything in life symbols too change meanings as time progresses and characters develop. The evolution of these symbols is relative to how all the characters in the book change along with their opinions of that symbol. Some stories are riddled with symbols and metaphors but only one of them is the main focus of the tale. In The Scarlet Letter the meaning of the “A” on Hester chest evolves throughout the story to mean different things to the different people who view it. In the…

in his writings because he could form some enemies and lose some fans. The arrangement of Hawthorne’s introduction is constructed to demonstrate his main purpose and his inspiration. The purpose of the piece was to explain on why he wrote “The Scarlett Letter” and to be informative as well. His purpose also was to explain his inspiration, which was the artifact while working in Salem’s Common House. Hawthorne states his purpose throughout the two paragraphs. The arrangement of the…

The book Touching Spirit Bear, written by Ben Mikaelsen, is a fantastic book. The main character is Cole Matthews, a 15 year old boy who is a juvenile delinquent who was getting in atrocious trouble since he was 7 years old. He lives in Minneapolis Minnesota. Cole’s latest crime is stealing from a hardware store and that makes Peter Driscal who is a 9th grader angry. Cole was so mad that Peter had told on him that Cole had beat Peter up and nearly killed him. Cole got the choice to go to…

A moody teenager enters a wakeboarding competition, but first must overcome his personal obstacles to compete. BRIEF SYNOPSIS: MAHI RASHEED, a teenager, lives with his grandmother JEEG. Mahi also lives in the shadow of his father, who was once a great water skier. Mahi enters a water slalom skiing competition cheered on by his best friend CHIP CONLEY. SHIK LEE bullies Mahi. Shik competes in wakeboarding against BLAKE BOSS, a local legend. Blake’s sister, NILLY BOSS (teen), watches.…

In the early nineteenth century, there was a philosophical movement known as Transcendentalism which supported the ideas of civil disobedience, self-reliance, and nature as a reflection of God. Nathaniel Hawthorne, one of the Transcendentalist authors, uses the idea of this philosophy in The Scarlet Letter (1850), in which Hester Prynne along with her daughter, Pearl, is cast out by the Puritans as an adulterer. While Hester has been punished for her sin, Arthur Dimmesdale, the town pastor, is…

understand these symbols, the ancient Greeks came up with the four terms: Eros, storge, agape, and philia to describe the four types of love. Each of these types of love is demonstrated in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Scarlett Letter” in different ways. Different characters in the Scarlett Letter share Eros, storge, agape, and philia love. Eros is a very affectionate and sensual kind of love. It usually triggers romantic feelings.…

remorse, which produces feelings of guilt, because of the knowledge of the his or her wrong doings. In superego-based remorse, there are many subcategories; self remorse, forced remorse, shallow remorse, as well as inward remorse. In the book the Scarlett Letter, Hester prim, who committed a crime, was shamed by the entire town, condemned to forever where a symbol on her dress, and almost had her child taken away. But even after numerous other threats, she still would not drag Arthur Dimsdale…

wanting to take my chances. The effects of being a risk taker have drastically changed my life, good and bad. Knowing these things, if I were to be labled it would definitely be an R. Just like Hester Prynne in the Scarlett Letter, I could be labled for my mistake and flaw. In the Scarlett letter, Hester Prynne comes to America without her husband. In her time in America she finds company with a Puritan minister. Hester’s new relationship with the minister leads her to commit the sin of…

Author and poet G.D Anderson once said, “Feminism isn 't about making women stronger. Women are already strong. It’s about changing the way the world perceives that strength.” This idea has been ignored throughout history because women have always been seen as the inferior gender, victimized by men and society. Women of all races and cultures have always been given a lower status than men. Religion plays a role in misogyny and add to the factor of sexism towards women. A novel that explores…