The late of these chapters(15-30) remarks the maturity of Hack. It reflects on that he decides to steal back the money. He is actually acting on his guilty and morals, rather than on his desires and wants. Huck's interaction with Mary Jane also remarks an aspect of his growth, namely his interest in girls.With Mary Jane, Huck finds new words to describe the opposite sex, including beautiful, and comments that when he sees her light the candle in the window, "my heart swelled up sudden, like to burst."
The final part of these chapters shows the fact that Huck is desperate to escape the King and the Duke. This is not simply because he is scared of them. Remember that when he first meets them he compares them to his Pa. Thus for Huck, escaping from these two men is the equivalent of breaking free from his Pa. It is not only a desire to escape these men in particular, but rather a desire to escape what they stand for, namely authority and control over his life.
From Chapter 10 -15,it starts to provide a great deal of insight into Jim's character.Jim comes across as sincere and responsible, but also stubborn and mature. The chapters also start to test the loyalty of Jim to Huck. Jim's sincerity is established in several ways. The most persuasive example is his pleasure at seeing Huck alive again after they are separated by the fog. Jim gets upset with Huck for tricking him into believing it was all a dream because he had invested a great deal of emotional content into the adventure. It also starts to become obvious that Jim would be willing to sacrifice a great deal to make sure that Huck is safe. The stubborn and mature side of Jim is evidenced by his arguments with Huck and with his attitude towards adventures. Huck comments that once Jim gets an idea into his head it is just impossible to change it. This can be proves by telling us about Jim's opinions of Solomon and Frenchmen. This stubbornness on Jim's personality can partially be traced to his maturity.
I read “Killing of Crazy Horse”, “Crazy Horse” have a basic understanding of him from his biography. From my viewpoint, Crazy Horse was remembered a great leader in battle and had a few great victories in his warrior life. Unfortunately, he was killed for disobeying commander’s order. I think that’s not the cause of his death. From his personal life, he is a quiet, shy and lonely person. His had three wives through his life showed that he was not a happy person. During his boyhood, two incidents taught him that white people were not to be trusted. as a leader, he took very good care of his soldiers and protected them. But he did not build a good relationship with people in higher position. I think his unsuccessful political life and the shortcomings of his personality caused his death.
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Hester was the visible letter “A”, obviously. She took all sufferings for redeeming her sins. She is a strong and brave woman. Hawthorne made a significant role on her. From Hawthorne’s viewpoint, Hester is not only a woman striving for liberty, but also she represents a spirituality that resist to the regulation of the sophisticated society. In other words, she is considered as a brave soldier fighting against the stupidity of the society.
Dimmesdale is the invisible”A”. Compared to Hester, he is a coward. He can not persuade himself to accept the illegal love –adultery. He was the victim of his religion believes. He was trying to proclaim his sins in public, but he didn’t. He was struggling too much with his inside heart, at the same time, he have to hidden his inside. He obviously loved Heater, but he treated his true love as sin. Finally, he died from suffering. It can be said that his character enlarged or enlighten Hester.
Chillingworth was the producer of letter “A”. He decided to make Dimmesdale suffering from his sins as revenge in fact prevented him from redeeming his sins. He loves Hester, but he transferred this love into hate. It didnt make him happy from revenge, but make him the worst person in the story.
Little pearl is the letter “A” that has a life. She is the result of sins but also the result of love. She is an Angel with “A”. This character represents Hawthorne’s view of Romanticism. Also it is his wish or imagination of religion.
Hester Prynne is introduced as a tall, beautiful woman condemned for committing a serious sin of adultery. Hester is described as being extremely graceful and brave. Even though Hester is labeled with an awful charge, underneath all the sin, lays a young woman in love with a man. Chillingworth, Hester’s husband, admits that their marriage displayed no kind of love, so it was only expected that Hester get involved with a man she actually cared for. She was in fact the victim among the other characters by being forced to marry Chillingworth without loving him and had to deal with Chillingworth selfishness, which permitted him to marry the young girl knowing all along that she never loved him. At last, she is the victim of Chillingworth stupidity in leaving his wife alone in Massachusetts. Treated as an outcast for about seven years, Hester is finally considered to be free from the "A”. When the Puritan community realized that Hester was in fact not as corrupt as supposed, they decided that she could return as a regular citizen in their village.
The Scarlet Letter is centered on the sin and punishment of Hester Prynn, but Hester is a far more complex character than these black and white terms. Some people probably suggest her be branded or killed instead of having to wear a red A. I think Hawthorne is trying to speak up for women. In his written, Hester was not only a woman striving for liberty, but also she represents a spirituality that resist to the regulation of the sophisticated society. In other words, she is considered as a brave soldier challenging the stupidity of the society. She is the representative role of the women at that time. It can be said that no one have ever reached the extent of what Hawthorne did in the “Scarlet Letter” in describing the role of women .
"Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles." This quotation forms the closing two lines of Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Self Reliance". I am greatly enlightened by his ideas in this article. "Trust ourselves" was his advice and many Americans listened. They not only listened in Emerson's lifetime, but his individualistic concepts have reverberated up to the present time. After reading the ideas expressed in "Self-Reliance", I have come to believe that self-reliance is the most important factor in one’s lifetime. Emerson believes that a man should not be what he is not. If a man is envious of other people, he will ignore all merits of himself. If a man imitates other people, he will lose his identity - like suicide.
From a Non-American point of view, America has a romantic attachment to the entrepreneur, inventor, and pioneer, because of their individuality. Americans are the masters of the self-help society. Here is the sentence I appreciate, “The lord helps those who help themselves”. If you go to Barns & Nobles or any bookshop, you will find no shortage pf self-help material. There is great value placed on individual responsibility and initiative. Also, this talk is from religious and traditional economic value of self-reliance.
Emerson’s “self-reliance” tells me that I should never give up before I try, I should never imitate others and lose myself. One should trust himself/herself and believe in his/her own thoughts, instead of caring about what others do. We should live a happy life according to our free wills.
My non-English literature class desire comes to an end this semester. In order to earn a degree in December, I am forced to be dragged into EL266. This is first literature class and is the last one, hopefully. I don’t hate it in personal, but I am afraid that I could not catch the pace of other peers. This is an active class involved a lot of interaction and discussion. It spurs me to try to speak out my opinions sometimes, but I give it up. I am not confident enough speaking in front of these native speakers. I have read many literature novels in high school in Chinese. Certainly, I like literature and writing. When it comes with a complete different language version, I feel burden of homework rather than showing interests on it. I mean I have a desire to learn English, but things do not work out as well as I expect, even frustrated me. Learning English a process that need time to take, I think I need spend more energy on it. But what is the best way? I have no clue…
I believe at first he speaks of Lenore in sadness and in depression. But when he notices the Raven i think it is a symbol of him going insane. The narrator seems to get more aggressive every time the raven says “never more”. Then he is going deeper into insanity. He also wrote this for his wife. The raven is merely a symbol of his hurt and depression of this loss reminding him that he will never see Lenore again.
We all have part of us that we don’t like to share with everyone, its ok when we share our daily life but the problem start when it gets in to our secret. For Bartleby, his situation is even more complicated he can’t get help because he is not willing to share his secret. If I am in this situation I will do everything I can do help, I would never bribes him with money.
This is the first time I was presenting a poem in front of the class. Nomatter how bad it is. First of all, thank you for easy on my presentation. I got a lot of comments on body language performance. i was trying to move my body a little a bit, but i cant. i dont know. Maybe because I am a little bit nervous, I was trying to extend the time on purpose. when presenting, I was reading too fast and was tense. As a result, it was not as good as I expected. As a non-native speaker, i think i have a lot to be improved, maybe because you guys dont wanna give me suggestions in class,but please feel free to comment and help me improving my English skills, i appreciate it.
Peyton's wife "was only too happy to serve him with her own white hands." This could be interpreted in two similar ways. The first is that her delicate hands are typically not put to work due to wealth. She respects the ideal of a soldier so much that she is willing to do a slave's work to show her appreciation. To show his appreciation, Peyton is willing to leave his family and risk his life to do something to help the South.
In Hawthorne's opinion, all the unfairness and miserable life were regarded as the battle of “good’ and “bad”, but his view about conscience was bounded by the doctrine of religious. So his opinion became weak. For instance, in Chapter-13, he wrote, “It is to the credit of human nature, that,…, it loves more readily than it hates. Hatrd, by a gradual and quiet process, will even be transformed to love…” these sentences make mefeel more stressful than thrilling when reading it part, beacuse he was redeeming his sins by passing his heritage to little Pearl, and Pearl is his biggest sin he made.