... look at a situation and decide the best course of action based upon the given information are good decision makers. In the "Scarlet Letter", there are many characters that do not make good decisions and have to live with the consequences. The choices that we make determine what we become, as a person, and how our lives are conducted. In the novel "The Scarlet letter" Hester makes the decision to commit adultery and she ... is now thought of, by the entire community, as an adulterer, which she is. She could have chosen to not ... her up inside. Hester was given a scarlet "A" to remind h...

• Word Count: 546
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

... own fiancee left him because no one knew anything about the veil he wore. Again in The Scarlet Letter, I can think of two more major examples where an object was used as a sign or omen. The first is of course the letter, it meant evil, shame, and sin to the townspeople. All it was, was a letter nothing more, nothing less. The second object that people took as a prolific sign was ... grew because flowers could not. People then and now take symbols too deeply and meaningful. People often take events to be meaningful and supernatural. In The Scarlet Letter the meteor meant some great act o...

• Word Count: 498
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

... they were just an overly serious, narrow minded group of people. In some cases this is true, but over all they weren't. Nathaniel Hawthorne proves this point in his novel "The Scarlet Letter". His characters are dynamic, in the sense that they all share a common and even persecuting faith yet still find time to be individuals with out letting go of that faith ... . There was no class-struggle in their minds; their common bond was religion. There ideas a bout religion weren't wrong, they were just medieval. The central core of Catholic thought in the middle ages was that man was created f...

• Word Count: 745
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne delivers the insights and thoughts of the many main characters of the novel. Hester Prynne's intuition about certain situations unveils her innermost spirit. Her daughter, the illegitimate Pearl is also another character of great perception. Pearl's psyche on Hester's scarlet letter and her relationship with the Reverend Dimmesdale show how insightfully her mind really works. The subconscious of Hester Prynne is shown ... pure instinctive intuitive. She believes that that is the only way out of things. Hester lets her mind run free as she expressed a...

• Word Count: 810
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

... 't hold strong opinions, I feel like she knows what is going on when she sees the two men. I also found it interesting that there was more symbolic interaction with Pearl and the letter in this chapter. She covers it with sharp burrs, which I took as being symbolic of the burden of the letter for Hester, like a sharp pain from a burr. These chapters were quite interesting in my ... opinion because they really started to move the story along for me. The build in character of Dimmesdale and Chillingworth has given me ... a more fulfilling understanding of the book. I now feel more sympath...

• Word Count: 533
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

... elemental femininity is expressed through a inherited structural form. Equally distinctive is the work of fiction writer Elizabeth Bowen. In her story "The Demon Lover", " a woman returns to a house of her youth and discovers a letter of nostalgic inconvenience by a man from her forgotten past. The woman is perplexed by the letter and begins to pace back and forth in her mind about its origin ... and final intentions, while youthful memories spring forth one by one, testing the steel safe in which she keeps them. In particular the woman digresses, "The idea of flight...He was never kind...

• Word Count: 723
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In the short story "Moon on the Water", the character Kyoko is a woman who has had to take care of her husband almost his whole life. Her first husband dies and she carries on with being obsessed with the mirror. Kyoko's second husband gives her advice, and I agree with him. He gives her the advice, " A sound love dwells only ... never said is to show that her life is filled with isolation and loneliness. Her whole life was filled with the sickness of her first husband and the mirror symbolizes her escape from all this. The mirror gave her, a since of adventure and in a way she could go to a ...

• Word Count: 309
• Approx Pages: 1
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... of Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette's short story, "The Hand," a young bride is lying in bed with her new husband, admiring him while he sleeps. Thinking to herself, she "praised his mouth, full and likable, his skin the color of pink brick, and even his forehead, neither noble nor broad, but still smooth and unwrinkled." The bride also mentions her husbands eyelashes ... cannot possibly know anything about love, and she and her new husband sleep in the same bedroom that the girl had as a child, and the only thing that has changed is the color of the drapes in the window. As the girl lies next...

• Word Count: 486
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

... Voigt, I am writing this letter about your book, Homecoming. I would like to express some of my feelings and explain some of my concerns over this book. Also, I would like to make some suggestions on improving this book. I really enjoyed the book Homecoming, but I thought the book could use a few changes ... on their journey that could have easily been taken out of the book. These parts became boring to read because everyday they woke up and went through the same daily routine and very little changed from day to day. Another change for this book is that not enough was wrote about Maybeth...

• Word Count: 430
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

... and valuable. We imagine that hardship which he passed during his life and how he tried to stay a "good" man inside. The main aim of his letter was to explain to his daughter that money and fame changes people, but she must be very strong and stay kind inside. It is a ... no matter rich or poor, happy or sad, good or bad, all of us are humans. I was influenced by this letter so much that I thought about changing my life. It is noticeable, at least for me, that it has considerably changed my worldview, mentality and attitude towards many things. Just to show how this ... letter affecte...

• Word Count: 919
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

... I"d almost be on guard especially if this individual was documenting my behavior, I would change my personality to seem to be cool and relaxed. I assume the anthropologist would know my language so I would attempt to communicate with him or her, asking them various questions; such as what is you name, where ... are you from, and why are you here; this would give me the chance to "feel" this person out and give me some idea of their intentions. As I got to know this individual I would become more comfortable ... mother and father's divorce, my brothers legal mishaps and other personal kn...

• Word Count: 454
• Approx Pages: 2
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... lines 18-20 "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I --I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." Frost is trying to get the point across that it is ok not to do what everyone else does just the be yourself. The speaker of this poem is the author Robert Frost. The occasion of this poem is a choice, it could be anything whether ... . Also, I think he is saying that just cause other people are doing it that you do not have to. Subject and the purpose is pretty much the same thing. The tone of this poem is happy and satisfied. In conclusion, the poem "The Road Not T...

• Word Count: 260
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

... mind to function," proving how determined Rainsford really was (52). I could never be like Rainsford and "not loose my nerve" because he is more determined than I am (84). During town the game, Rainsford "slid down the tree and struck off again into the woods," determined not to be scared (48). Rainsford was correct on thinking that his determination would help him win ... [and] he thought of a native trick he had learned in Uganda...fastened his hunting knife" to the springy young sapling (50). He showed his intelligence by examining "the ground closely...He knew that from the position ...

• Word Count: 420
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

... minnow boat he found. He soon went there every day. He met a girl named Susan. She went with him on the island to bring him food because he decided to stay and sleep on the island because he wanted to learn about every thing that was on it. He didn't want to leave because he thought ... he would loose every thing. His parents started to worry about him. His dad tried to talk him into leaving the island because he thought he was doing drugs or that he joined a cult. Wil said he didn't want to leave so his parents went home to call a ... shrink. The next day a lady came to the island, she...

• Word Count: 444
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

... a lot because he has witnessed no one at his door and he thinks its Lenore's Spirit. Poe also feels frustration, being troubled and his in a mood of sorrow. Poe has the color of mourning hanging in his room. Purple curtains, which represents mourning and death. He sits in his house reading forgotten lore and mourns about his lost loved one, Lenore ... , thinking of what this fateful bird's past has in store. Poe kept on sitting, guessing the meaning of the raven. The raven gave Poe some hope of seeing Lenore, but when the raven said nevermore, Poe's feelings fell behind and into the rave...

• Word Count: 650
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

... . One difference I will be talking about is the difference in lighting and how it affected the mood of the story. Plus, I will speak of the similarities in the actions of the man pertaining to the murder of the old man. The first difference I saw was in the lighting. One movie was done in the dark while the other was in the light. The movie done in the dark appeared to be older and was in ... the classic black and white horror movie style. Therefore, having the movie done in the dark fitted the ... can see even small changes such as lighting and actions can change the impact of a story....

• Word Count: 521
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

... , hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor! All hail Macbeth, hail that shalt be king hereafter!" When Macbeth and Banquo first met the witches after defeated the army of rebels in Act 1, Sc.3, the witches told the above. These three predictions were the starter of the evil Macbeth's rise and fall. Banquo has also heard these, but he had a different reaction. I am going to compare their reactions ... of Cawdor was killed because of betraying King Duncan. And King Duncan has awarded Macbeth the title as the reward of defeated the enemies. Macbeth was surprise, not only because he has been promoted, ...

• Word Count: 579
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

... a good citizen and do good works through the power of him. Socrates strongly believed in the concept of man the thinker, man the doer, and man the maker. The problem in that is the Greeks believed that the city-state was the world, so they thought that the betterment of mankind was in the betterment of the city-state. So the Greeks were caught up in the analysis part of doing that their society ... made little progress. The case was different with Rome, they ... moral guidelines, and without moral guidelines, people could do whatever they wanted without being reprimanded. As society be...

• Word Count: 487
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

... of her actions. Later on, she was told that there was a letter waiting for her at the post-office and having the queer belief that letters most often mean death, she hurried to the post-office scared and feeling paranoid. Upon getting the letter, she was surprised to know that the letter came from a then unknown person and thought that perhaps something happened to her sister. Carrying her baby ... her mind and she was afloat on reminiscing those lovely times when out of the corner of her eye, she saw a snake near the cornhusks where she placed her baby. Quickly snapping back to reality...

• Word Count: 1310
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

... disempowered-and that realization can be destabilizing(Aboujaoude 400). In a sense the path that the future is on is a road in which the world is controlled by computers. Sure there are people behind the computers but the reality is the computers control the people. The Internet takes away from originality. It's no longer needed for people to be expansive and creative when they can simply Google any ... are in a situation where they need to think quickly on their feet and can't? Imagine surgeons having to Google a quick fix to repair a heart. Picture writers searching online for a plot l...

• Word Count: 1182
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... the Irish Civil war, in the short story "The Sniper". Trapped on the roof of a building and armed with a rifle and a revolver, the unnamed sniper was attempting to accomplish his mission before sunrise. The sniper's actions and thoughts show many of his character traits such as being intelligent and determined and at the same time a risk taker. A segment of the ... story that shows his determination and intelligence was when he is shot in the ... to smoking or of him having a feeling of sympathy or deep remorse after killing a man. The republican sniper in the story "The Sniper" by Liam...

• Word Count: 366
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

... to her parents. Every land she knew of had residents, and she was sure that the residents would send her home. Surely there were no uninhabited islands. In the mean time, Andrea thought about the scorching heat and the effect the sun's vicious rays would have on her skin. It felt as though she was actually ... about her adventure once she was safely back home. She would be like a celebrity and would probably receive many cards and gifts. The thought of returning to her home was the only thing that kept her from panicking, and she had no thoughts of what would happen if she were not rescu...

• Word Count: 395
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Dearest Brandon, How are you doing? I hope this letter finds you doing well and in good health. Life for us has gotten worse since the last time we spoke. I am feeling very weak today and the tears are burning my eyes. This will probably be my last letter to you. Both of my little darlings have passed on and now Charles has taken ill and is ... bed ridden. I fear the end is near for him. This illness has stunned ... of getting rid of this Black Death. People are trying everything they can think of to get rid of the evil virus. The rich are even trying medicines made of gold and pearls. The t...

• Word Count: 618
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

The novel, The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane is based on a short period of time when a regiment of soldiers fight their way through the Civil War and Crane shares with his readers all about their experiences. Throughout the story Crane uses imagery to help his readers relate to these experiences. Crane's various uses of imagery let readers actually feel the emotions these soldiers felt during ... the conflicts and struggles they went ... . This quote portrays religious imagery as well as color imagery. The majority of color imagery in this novel deals with the color red. The color red...

• Word Count: 697
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... who keeps on clinging "to a dream world that can so easily be shattered into jagged pieces, as illusion is destroyed by reality". Living your past during the present, might be troubling and confusing. Amanda, the mother, keeps on talking about her past and she keeps on thinking that everything should be like her past. She wants Laura, especially, to be like her ... . Amanda keeps giving her lecture about how she had many gentleman callers knocking her door when she was young, since Laura is the fragile and shy type of girl. She is very unrealistic, because nowadays for her it is full of ...

• Word Count: 300
• Approx Pages: 1
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School