The letter tells her he left something for Elise. She figures out it was the key and that it was for the rooms, but what she finds within the rooms are astonishing, and what the book is about. I have really been…
Feeling sympathetic towards a suspected murderer, or murderess, is a rarity. Ted Bundy, Whitey Bulger, and Lizzie Borden didn’t receive a lot of sympathy after they killed multiple strangers and family members. Rather, they were thought of as notorious monsters. While their crimes were more recent, the feelings of animosity and fear towards murderers has remained the same throughout history. One does not need to be convicted of a crime to face this hatred but only a suspect.…
There are many memories that may come to mind when the word adolescence is spoken. Some people recall times of enjoyable, innocent adventures, but for others the phrase “teenage years” holds horrific memories. For a section of the populace their “teen experiences” may be the most appalling time period, as they begin to undergo many changes. This concept of dark adolescence is present, not only in the real world, but in the literary world as well. For example, in the novel A Separate Peace where a friendship turned in the wrong direction and a deadly war, mark the moments of growing up. While some readers believe that Phineas (Finny) and Gene’s separate peace shows the innocence of youthful occurrences; a closer inquiry demonstrates that through mental illness and death , adolescence is a time of terror, thus showing a theme of the realization of reality.…
The strategies that Dimmesdale uses while juggling two rhetorical situations are his high standings in the community as a source of credibility and authority, his purpose as a minister to help convince the sinner to come forward and reveal the truth, and his ability to convey underlying messages to the reader. His effectiveness of communication is successful for the reader but not for the characters in the story.…
The author of the Scarlett Letter, Hawthorne, uses many different rhetorical elements throughout the novel. Some example of Hawthorne’s elements are diction, syntax, tone, examples, analogy, and/or contrast.…
Miss Brill has a fun time seeing whatever is around her as one big play and sees the world as a fun and happy place wherever she goes. Miss Brill is a person who sees what is in front of her to be part of a big play that she is just imagining in her head. Miss Brill, due to her happy and cheerful attitude, has a hard time understanding what the difference between an illusion and reality. Miss Brill needs to know what she is thinking is different from what she is seeing. Miss Brill has gotten used to living in a fantasy world apart from her own.…
In a passage from The Scarlet Letter, the narrator concocts a sense of a judgmental and somewhat contemplative attitude toward the Puritan society. The narrator's stance is emphasized mainly on the author's description of the Puritans and his use of symbolism to describe their community.…
Miss Brill is more successful with adapting to change and facing reality. Instead of hiding away in the “cupboard,” she emerges to participate in life. She adapts to the world that is changing as she gets older, rather than lose her sanity or commit crimes. Although she thinks that she is an actress in a play, she has her own versions of reality. However, it doesn’t take her long to accept reality.…
Toby tries to pretend that his current situation is not actually real and uses his imagination as a form of escape. Toby writes imaginative letters to his pen pal Alice, where he lies about his life and describes his ideal world. “I also wrote long letters to my pen pal...I represented…
Important Quote: “When I went back to her room she was crying. We were not in the same social class, but at least we were in the same bed (p.37).”…
At first glance, Ian McEwan presents Briony Tallis as an innocent child who simply witnessed scenes she did not understand, however what we can actually see, as the novel progresses, is that Briony is an attention seeking, self-absorbed, meddling child whose series of incorrect observations come to wreck Cecilia and Robbie’s lives.…
My mom and Dad are on a genealogy kick right now, and I look censuses with thousands of names on it.…
In Atonement, instead of the family’s stability being viewed as a rock like the ideal family, the vase in Atonement maintains peace but creates nothing but chaos and downfall when it is destroyed. When the vase, the family’s heirloom, begins to fall apart, so does the family, until the pieces are so tiny that repair becomes clearly impossible.…
In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the five main characters were faced with the immense challenge of forgiving the people who had committed wrongs against them. Whether those indiscretions be the sin of adultery or the act of revenge, each were equally as hard to forgive. Hester’s challenge was to forgive the townspeople. Reverend Dimmesdale needed to forgive Chillingworth. Chillingworth had to forgive Hester and Dimmesdale. Pearl had to forgive Dimmesdale. Governor Bellingham had to forgive Hester. Not all of the characters could forgive the ones who wronged them. Each character took a different path when facing the burden of forgiveness.…
When Cecilia and Robbie meet again, their relationship is very “awkward”. Cecilia shows her irritation when Robbie approaches her outside, nonetheless her irritation does not stop her from secretly admiring his handsome built. Cecilia takes a vase outside to fill at the fountain, Robbie offers to help but she refuses. She is angry with him because of what happened two days before when Robbie had arrived at the front door to borrow a book from the library, and “took his socks off” so as not to dirty the floor since Betty was cleaning the…