... ruthlessly. One night, in order to relieve his guilt, he walks to the scaffold and stands there openly like Hester did. He does this, however, in the pitch-black darkness of the night, so the situation is not exactly the same. As he stands on the scaffold, his fellow minister, Reverend Wilson, coming back from the house of late Governor Winthrop, passes him. He suddenly feels a great temptation to invite ... Wilson to come and stand on the platform with him. The temptation is an example of how his guilt is affecting his ... other's existence. "It was no wonder that they thus questioned...

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... Hawthorne [and] Irving would have shrunk back disgusted," Poe plunges ahead, writing stories and poems such as "The Fall of the House of Usher", "Ligeia", "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and "The Raven."79 At their best, Poe's works are vehicles for "exploring the hidden hinterland of the human mind."80 Nevertheless, this exploration will soon come to a momentary halt because America will have other things ... Gwendolyn Bennett's "Lines Written at the Grave of Alexandre Dumas," Bennett speaks of cemeteries as "places for departed souls [and] roving spirits."92 In The Grapes of Wrath, Jo...

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• Grade Level: High School