The House of the Seven Gables is built on land that is owned by Matthew Maule. ... The house of the seven gables was built with pride and cursed with death. ... "(2) Before the House of the Seven Gables was built, the land was owned by Matthew Maule. ... He is her cousin and he has inherited the house of the seven gables from his ancestors. ... She brings in the sunshine to the house of the seven gables. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Loosely based on the events of Hawthorne's own life, The House of the Seven Gables attempts to show the suffering of descendants forced to repent for the sins of their "father", while they are unknowingly renewing the curse by nurturing the ancestral greed that has passed through the generations. ... The House of the Seven Gables is a tale of loneliness and greed caused by the sin of preceding generations. ... The remains of the family consist of a decrepit spinster named Hepzibah, now the caretaker of the house of the seven gables; her insane brother Clifford, who was just recentl...

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• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

True to its roots as a Gothic novel, the atmosphere of The House of the Seven Gables broods with ambiguity and fear, with this uncertainty culminating in moments of heightened suspense. ... Without this clarity, we, like Phoebe, become fearful-however, the pervasiveness of ambiguity challenges us to consider how indistinct our world truly may be, and if it is as ambiguous as the world of The House of the Seven Gables, why we feel entitled to clarity in an unclear world. ... However, later in the novel after Hepzibah discovers Judge Jaffrey dead, she senses that a "stifling atmosphere of ...

• Word Count: 1547
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

In The Scarlet Letter, The House of Seven Gables, and The Blithedale Romance Hawthorne exhibits his themes of evil, moral responsibility, and crime and romance, and proves that anyone is capable of falling from grace, as humans are born with an evil nature. ... The Scarlet Letter, along with The House of Seven Gables and The Blithedale Romance, is still read and anthologized in high schools and colleges across the United States today. ... The House of Seven Gables was Hawthorne's follow-up novel to the highly successful The Scarlet Letter. Hawthorne, haunted by the sins of his ancestors,...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Seven Different Roof Structures B. ... Illustration of all seven-roof types IV. ... An intersecting roof is needed on a house when two wings intersect. ... Then we realize how critical that surface of the house's exterior really is. Yet, as well as keeping the house dry, the roof contributes greatly to the look of the house, so when building a new house, adding on, or re-roofing, it may pay to consider the options. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Among his literary accomplishments were: The Scarlet Letter, The House of Seven Gables, and The Blithedale Romance. ... He began at the Boston Custom House in January of that year. Hawthorne continued at the Custom House until he became Surveyor for the District of Salem. ... He followed it with The House of Seven Gables (1851) and The Blithedale Romance (1852). ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The centerpiece of the village is the "fayre house." ... Captain John Turner's house, also known as the House of seven Gables, went through many changes. John Ward's house, part of the Peabody Essex Museum, is a house where you can take a tour and catch a glimpse of England furnishings and domestic life. Also a part of the Peabody Essex Museum, and open for tours, is the Crowninshield Bentley house and Gardner- Pingree house; the Pierce-Nichols house isn't open for tours, but belonged to the man who developed one of the largest India trades in the US. The Derby house, built ...

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• Grade Level: High School

His mother, Elizabeth Manning Hathorne, could not manage 3 young children on her own and moved the family to his uncle Manning's house where he spent the remainder of his youth. ... Upon his graduation from Bowdoin in 1825, Hawthorne moved back to his mother's house in Salem where he spent 12 years in what he would later refer to as a period of isolation during which he did a great deal of writing, thinking and developing his voice as an author ("Hawthorne, Nathaniel"). ... Despite the success of his work, their income was still extremely low and in 1845, the family moved in with Haw...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Contrary to his family's expectations, Hawthorne did not begin to read law or enter business, rather he moved into his mother's house to turn himself into a writer. ... When a local printer delayed publishing his Seven Tales of My Native Land, Hawthorne withdrew the manuscript and burned it " in a mood half-savage, half-despairing." ... (American Writers II, pg 242) In seven months it was finished. ... Within a year Hawthorne finished and published another novel named The House of Seven Gables; a story about a Pyncheon family of Salem and Maule's curse. ... After seven years in ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In front of my house there was a tree that flourished beautifully. ... In China, the age for entering first grade is seven, a year older than that in the U.S. ... The gap between grade levels and the huge disparity between the educational systems were roadblocks on my way to the house of knowledge. ... Diving into the sea of Little Women, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Anne of Green Gables, and many more fascinating works of fictions, I began to improve my reading and writing skills. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Nathaniel Hawthorn, the author of "The Scarlet Letter," lived from 1804 to 1864. Hawthorne developed his talents as a writer by his short fiction works and other novels including "The House of the Seven Gables" and "The Marble Faun" (The American Novel). Hawthorne's works focused on what can be call...

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This first fully acknowledged residence's most striking external feature is the monumental shingled gable that shelters the house and covers the entrance and the bay window from the living room. ... His early houses revealed a unique talent in the young, aspiring architect. ... The development of these ideas together became known as the "Prairie House" style and one of the most notable of these creations is the Robie House in Chicago. ... In this house he showed total mastery over technique and environment. ... Wright integrated much of his earlier design invention into this ho...

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• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The next year he published his second great novel, The House of Seven Gables, along with a book of stories for children called A Wonder-Book for Boys and Girls. ... They were (1) treason or rebellion; (2) "Willful" murder; (3) Making a compact with Satan, including witchcraft; (4) Arson of houses or ships; and (5) rape and sodomy (would included homosexual acts and sexual acts with animals).  ...

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• Grade Level: High School

1. How effectively does Possession by A.S Byatt reflect and/or challenge the dominant ways of thinking of the time in which it was composed? The year 1990 saw the publication of A.S Byatt's Possession-A Romance. Composed during a time where the dominant discourse in literature, academia, architec...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"The house would stink acrid as a sulphur mine" (Line 27) describes the aftermath of "Churning Day", how it would stink. ... In "An Advancement of Learning", Heaney talks about the river being "oil-skinned, wearing a transfer of gables" (Line 4) to describe how polluted it is, yet there is still a grimy reflection in the river. ... Heaney uses personification to describe how things looked: "The river nosed past, pliable, oil skinned, wearing a transfer of gables and sky." ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Beck-Chenoweth uses a shelter on skids enclosed with chicken wire with litter- covered floors, tarp-covered gable roofs, and doors on both ends. ... He built a 20' x 12' house on a trailer for 100 hens. ... Portable brooder house blueprints obtained from NDSU are enclosed. ... Salatin houses layers in a 20'x120' hoop house in the wintertime in Virginia (see enclosed article "Hoophouses"). ... (See the enclosed article "Building the Homestead Chicken House.") ...

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• Grade Level: High School

He does this by using primary characters in the novels The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables, and many short stories who have a problem, like an inner secret, or who have some kind of guilt, and shows how society looks upon these people. ...

• Word Count: 3188
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School