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Intro: In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel The Scarlet Letter, the Reverend Mr. Dimmesdale wears no outside symbol of shame, yet buries it deep within. He has no law that condemned him to bear a letter marking him as sinful -- like the A pinned to Hester -- however, he is constantly reminded by his roommate. As the victim of Hester and Dimmesdale's affairs, Roger Chillingworth devotes his remaining life to forever remind Arthur of his sin. He tells Hester “few secrets can escape an investigator, who…

Ulysses is a man who has done a lot in his life. He enjoyed every moment of it, even if he wasn't with his family for the majority of their lives. You don't have a lot of time to live life, life is short so you should enjoy everyday. He represents this message when Ulysses knew that he was going to eventually be home but until then he's going to live every moment he has until he dies. He learned that even at the worst of times that he has to enjoy…

Setting describes the place, the social aspects, geographical locations, population, ancestral influence, and many other elements. Indeed, setting influence audience reception of a story and how they connect with it. Setting can also reveal a lot about the lifestyle of the characters in a piece of literature. Leila Aboulela’s Souvenir and Francisco Jimenez’s the The Circuit are both set in different setting that influence their meaning and interaction with the audience. In this essay, I will…

In the novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Offred is the narrator and a protagonist in the story as well. Margaret Atwood, the author of the narrative, chose to use a first-person narrator in the story who gives a tale from her point-of-view explaining the events and memories that took place around her. Importantly, Offred gives the narration as the events happen and shows a reader her thoughts through digressions and flashbacks. Offred is a Handmaid in the Gilead Republic, which is a state…

In a society of neutral colors, the child dressed all in scarlet and gold appeared to be an alien in a foreign land. As she pranced through the cemetery with her mother, also wearing the colors of scarlet and gold, the daughter stood as a reminder of the adultery that the mother had committed. The daughter, Pearl, and the mother, Hester Prynne, are characters in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, a novel about sin and how people deal with the after effects of sin. Hawthorne uses Hester…

Once More To the Lake Your childhood is something that you must savour and enjoy because you won’t be a child forever. In “Once More to the Lake”, E.B White speaks of the time he returned to a lake after many years with his son. During his time there, he witnesses some alterations to the place and struggles with the thought of change happening in his idyllic world of childhood. Throughout the essay, he explains that his son had many similar experiences that he had as a boy at the lake .Seeing…

The book Ensnared has many interesting characters. There are three main characters in the story and one main antagonist. The story is about the main characters going through harsh trials that different worlds and the antagonist brings them. The characters all undergo changes from events that affected them in both positive and negative ways. Alyssa Gardner is the main character and protagonist of the book Ensnared. She is introduced in chapter one while she is on the memory train. Alyssa is…

happy family they should have been from the beginning. My personal thoughts on the relationship between Cole and his mother were that this relationship between the two was definitely needed. It was great to have Cole’s mother be where his father fell short at times. I feel as if this is why Cole finally decided to speak up to his father because as much as he wanted a relationship with his mother he also wanted one with his father as…

Curley’s wife is the most misunderstood character in the novel ‘Of Mice And Men’ this is clear when you study the book from her point of view. She is innocent, lonely and defensive in a way that readers see it as mean and tart. In real life we should not judge or exclude someone because of a first impression, yet that is exactly what happens in this book. Curley’s wife is innocent and only wants someone to love her, for example, after she is killed, Steinbeck writes, 'The meanness and the…

Carabas so that he can acquire the attire of which he is portrayed in. Another example of anthropomorphism is in the short story ,”Coyote Steals Fire,” Coyote says “lets play a game of dice.” Coyote is expressing anthropomorphism in two ways as he is speaking to thunder(another character in the story) and by the fact that he is going to play dice.Anthropomorphism is alo used in the short story ,”How Stories Came to Earth,” as the narrator states that Anansi was “something looking more like a…