Scarlet Letter 8

The scarlet letter it’s the element which all the story round around. It is the symbol of the sin of Hester Prynne, a sort of mark indelible she will have forever to show to everyone the mistake that spots her soul. It’s the letter “A”, just the first letter of her sin: Adultery. Wearing it, day by day, Hester is the example on the earth of her mistake and a sort of warning for all who would think to do the same, before their thoughts become reality. The color scarlet isn’t casual. It represents the tormented the love, the passion she felt that only time she made her sin. Because once was sufficient to make her a sinner, in front of the people but, more, in front of God. The position of the letter on the heart of the woman represents materially an obstacle for her soul to reach the purity again. She lost it forever!

Scarlet Letter 7

The behave of Hester husband, during the meeting with the wife in the prison, is particularly interesting to be analyzed. In a first moment he looks very rigor, likes all the doctor are. He doesn’t talk a lot and limit his actions to cure the baby and the wife: he seems stranger to that situation. After the examination he takes a chair and seats next to Hester, all in a very quiet way. At this time he starts talking about the actual situation: himself, the wife, their marriage, the betrayal, the children… It’s interesting, here, how the author makes the character explain himself. There is a sort of contrast between how Hester husband behaves and how he feels. His action seems very calm, too much for a man who has been betrayed. Indeed he is very upset, he is angry and he wants to know the truth about the father of the baby. We can understand that in his speech and especially in Hester reaction, when she says “Thy acts are like mercy, but thy words interpret thee as a terror!”

Government, Religion and Culture

Government, Religion and Culture

1.     For a good earn is important that export products, those you sell abroad, are more than imported products, those you buy from foreign markets.

Charter colonies were those colonies made by settlers who had been given a grant of right and privileges, and which had their own governors and member of the legislature.

Proprietary colonies were those colonies ruled by proprietors, that could be individuals or groups that had received land by Britain. The proprietors were free to rule as they want.

Sons of farmers were sometimes apprentices; they learned by craft workers how to trade.

An high level of literacy, the ability to read and write, is very important for a good conduction of a Country.

2.     Women cared about their children with their husbands, cooked, made butter and cheese, preserved food, spun yarn, made clothes and tended chicken and cows. Sometimes they could work in the field next to theirs husbands or attend church meeting. Windows and unmarried woman could work as teachers, nurses, and seamstresses too. But any of them couldn’t vote.

3.     The Navigation Acts angered the colonists because established that they could trade only with England and that fact would have limited a lot their businesses.

4.     Andrew Hamilton defend John Peter Zenger and free speech because it’s important to know and say the truth, and hiding it, only because it’s offensive for someone, is like lying.

5.     FACT: Great Awakening

CAUSE: the will to return to the strong faith of the early days.

CONSECUENCES: formation of many new churches.

6.     Stephen Daye established the first printing press in the new colonies in 1639. Before that they probably communicate by handwriting works or by voice which shouldn’t be very comfortable and safe ways to communicate.

Life in the Colonies

Life in the Colonies

1.     In New England families used to do subsistence farming; they produced just enough to satisfy their own needs, with a little left over to sell or exchange.

The triangular trade was a trade by sea whose route formed a triangle; sugar and molasses were brought from West Indies to New England, rum and other goods were shipped from New England to West Africa and there traded for enslaved Africans who were brought in West Indies.

In Middle Colonies farmers grew large quantity of cash crops, crops that could be sold easily in colonies and oversea.

2.     In Middle Colonies they cultivated large areas of land, producing big harvests which were also sold overseas and whose trade made colonies there very busy ports. They have home-based crafts too, such as carpentry and flour making, and larger businesses, such as lumbering, mining and small-scale manufacturing.

3.     New England colonists used natural resources to help their economy. They used waterpower from streams to run mils for grinding grain or sawing lumber, for shipbuilding they used woods form the forest that was transported down by rivers, and they had a good sea to fish in.

4.	Similarities	Differences
New England	Cultured of crops, use of slaves to labor fields	Long winter, thin and rocky soil, subsistence farming_________
Southern Colonies		Warm climate, rich soil, production of big harvests to be traded

5.     Plantation owners justified their uses of enslaved Africans saying they needed to use those slaves to work fields because without them they couldn’t produced a sufficient quantity of products and the economy of the colony, they belonged to, would have fallen.

6.     Rice, tobacco indigo and furs were traded from British Colonies to Great Britain and goods and molasses were brought from West Indies to British Colonies.

Scarlet Letter 6

In chapter three for the first time men of Church take part in the story. They are the Reverend Mr. Wilson and the Reverend Mr. Dimmesdale. They try to cajole Hester to say the name of the father of the baby, but she doesn’t do it. Important to be noticed is that in the Place Church men and Politicians seat together. That’s because in Puritans organization Politic and religion were very close, often laws were based on religious moral and priest operated like judges.

Scarlet Letter 5

The suspense is a technique used often in the book and in chapter three we have another example of it. In this episode of the story while Hester is standing on the scaffold a men into the group of people under her attracts her attention. She recognizes him but doesn’t say his Identity. Considering her feeling after she saw him, the readers can understand that he is the last person she would see, but nothing more. The story leaves this issue in the uncertain, to increase the curious of the readers. Probably he is her husband, who she didn’t see since lots of year, but it’s impossible to be certain, you can only continue to read to discover that.

Scarlet Letter 4

Particularly important in chapter two are the behaves of Hester Prynne while she is moving from the prison to the Market-Place. She shows all her dignity. Despite she has burning blush, she smiles and shows a glance that would not be abashed. That’s to hide people her real feelings. In the reality she suffers a lot and would like to escape, but she can’t let people know that so she groups all the force she has and go on. 

Scarlet Letter 3

An element, in chapter two, about which the writer focalizes his attention, is the rule and the costume of the women in the colony. Especially it is underlined the differences between the old ladies of English origin and their descendents, born in the New World. The firsts don’t have much refinement, they go to the Place like the men and judge brutally the poor sinner; the others are more sensible and fair. This can be noticed in the dialogues, too. The younger women are more comprehensive about the sinner’s fault and understand her feelings better than the old ones.

Scarlet Letter 2

In the beginning of the story the author focalize the attention on the door of the prison. Starting by describing the yard in front of the prison, and going on with the lawn out the door and finally the door itself, the writer makes the effect of a prospective that is going close to the place when the act is going to happen. Just when this description is finished and the act should start, always is left by the suspense. That makes a kind of introduction for the reader and makes him curious about what is going to happen, so cajoles him to continue reading.

Scarlet Letter 1

In the first chapter we know that two of the main buildings in a colony were the prison and the cemetery. The reason because these two places couldn’t miss needs to be researched in the origin of the colonists: they were Puritans. The main belief of Puritans were that people had to do a “pure” life, without any sins, waiting for the death, which with they would have gone in a better place, the heaven. So, at first, they needed a place at to punish bad actions and a place for death people.

Sentences

OBTUSE: The obtuse student didn't understand anything about the lesson.

ADROIT: The adroit men succeded to ride the bull for a lot of time in a PBR show.

DELETERIOUS: Smoking is deleterious for your health.

Sentences

CAPITULATE: Realized the defeat that he would suffered, the commander order to capitulated the battle.

CELESTIAL: It was a clear night so they went out to watch the celestial light of the stars.

Sentences

CATALYST: The storm was the catalyst of the shipwreck that permitted the explorers circumnavigate   the world.

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CAUSTIC: New York is a very caustic city. It doesn't know the silent.

Sentences

CAJOLE - The wife cajoles her husband to go in a spa for a relaxing vacation.

CENSURE - The public tv channels censure violent programs in the baby-time (afternoon).

ENGLISH: The Iroquois Constitution

1a. Five Nations confederate lords plans the Tree of the Peace with Dekanawidah and names it Tree of the Great Long Leaves.

2a. Dekanawidah is speaking to Adodarhoh, chief confederate lord of the Onondaga, on whose land the council fire was it.

3a. A candidate lord shows his pledge to the council furnishing five strings of shells (or wampum) one span in length bound together at one end; that symbolizes that he will live according to the constitution of the Great Peace and exercise justice in all affairs.

4a. This excerpt from Iroquois Constitution incorporate nature like metaphor of real life.

5a. The values and the moral code described in Iroquois Constitution are all good qualities that members and the leader of a government should have. Peace and good will in the mind, patience in currying out the duty, firmness tempered with the tenderness for their people are all characteristic that a good leader should demonstrate. Unfortunately that is pure utopia. A man with these features would be perfect, but men aren't perfect so that is good purpose but impossible. Probably in a world like Iroquois's one that should be more probable because the it hadn't known yet the corruption, but in a world like nowadays that would be impossible.

1b. The meeting purpose at which Dekanawidah speaks are to plant the Tree of the Great Peace, so to establish the laws and to present the dispositions that a lord should have. Oratory skills were prized because are fundamental for a political men. Being able to speech means to be able tom communicate and make the others understand what you say by right justifications and to be able to rebut wrong reasoning readily.

2b. Dekanawidah doesn't refers to the assembled lords as “cousins” because they are really related to one another but because in front of the God they are all on the same level, they are equal. So “cousins” is used to underline that fairness.

3b. According to the constitution a leader should be proof against anger, offensive actions and criticism. His heart should be filled with peace and good will and his mind filled with a yearning for the welfare of the people of the confederacy. With endless patience he should carry out his duty and his firmness should be tempered with tenderness for his people. Neither angry or fury should find lodgment in his mind and all his words and action should be marked with calm deliberation. Everytime his self-interest should be cast into oblivion.

4b. The Five Nations have to respect the nature because for them it is where everything come from and in it there is something celestial.

5b. The Iroquois's Constitution it'a a good base from how start to make laws. He includes all reasonable behave that a good leader should have. Obviously it needs to be extended. A good law can't only speak about the behave of a leader but it is own of people, so it has to speak about people's behave to. Plus there should be in it not only what you must do, but what you can't do too. So if I have to write a Constitution I'll put in it what you could do, rights, and what you must or mustn't do, duties.

HISTORY: Early English Settlements - New England Colonies

Early English Settlements

1. The first permanent english settlement was Jamestown in North America; it was created by a group of merchants, the Virginia Company of London, that was a join-stock company that obtained the charters to make the colony by the king. At first the administration of the colony were made by Virginia Company's leaders in England but by the time the people of Jamestown needed to have their own representative to the administration. They obtain the right to send to representatives per town to the assembly, they were called burgesses.

2. The Virginia Company established in North America because these lands had already been considered good for colonialism by previous explorer and politic's men.

3. The growing of tobacco helped save jamestown from economic failure.

4. The king of England willed to started trades with the America to increase english finance.

5. Growth of Jamestown: permanent settlement in America with own organization & slavery.

6. The 30% of settlers in Plymouth were children.

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New England Colonies

1. In 1534 England became an official Protestant country with any toleration against other worships; many people dissented with the beliefs of the new religion, these were the Puritans, who were protestant but wanted a reform, and Separatist, who disagreed completely and wanted to set up their own churches. All of these people were persecuted by the state and so many of them went in America to look for religious freedom. A first group of Separatist settled in Virginia, they were Pilgrims because their journey had a religious purpose. They establish in Plymouth and to formalize their independence they drew up a formal document called the Mayflower Compact.

2. Separatist left Europe for the americas to escape the persecution against them and economic hard times.

3. Rhode Island offered the religious freedom.

4. The Mayflower Compact and the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut had in common the description of the political order of the respective colonies, a kind of official low.

5. The colonist interact with the Native Americans: the colonist learn about how survive in the new lends (cultivate vegetables, where to hunt and fish...), the colonist took Native Americans' lands, there was a terrible war were died a lot of people and Native Americans risked the extinction.

6. Furs, Rum and Lumber came from New Hampshire.

Sentences

CALLOUS - The callous man in "Hills like white elephants" doesn't want that the girl to have the baby.
CAPRICIOUS - Dorian Grey is a capricious boy he must have everything more impossible.