The Old Dutch Church & Cemetary National Historic Landmark.
Posted on 06/27/2006 8:08:24 AM PDT by presidio9
Genealogy bump
> I guess I was stuned by having to deal with "The Scarlet Letter" in junior high!
Read it again. You'll like it, I promise.
When we finished reading it in high school, all the girls filed into class with scarlet As pinned to their shirts. The English teacher was floored!
Nice job Linda...
The Old Dutch Church & Cemetary National Historic Landmark.
Cool link. Thanks.
"Garden of the Fitzi-Contini" is one of the best horror stories I can remember.
All I see is a red x. Need help with picture posting? ;)
Perhaps if you paid more attention during the Scooby-do catroons you would have known this!
(I didn't know this either.)
I *just* re-read "The Scarlet Letter" in a college senior-level English class -- American Fiction. I was STUNNED at the difference in my personal perception of the story as an adult. Living a life -- having a marriage and children -- makes a world of difference in one's perceptions and observations of Hester Prynne and the choices she makes.
I also learned tons more about Hawthorne, as well as Una. We read TSL as it related to Antonomian Controversy of 1636-1638 (and Hester essentially becoming Anne Hutchinson, Pearl being "the monstrous birth" and a slap at John Winthrop). Following the reading and discussion though, we read "The Faerie Queen" (Spencer) -- it was the first book that Hawthorne purchased with his own money.
In "The Faerie Queen" he read of Una. . .Una being the one true faith. She comes about in book 2 with the Redcrosse knight. Rather interesting read about doubt, perception and reality.
Hawthorne I believe was a brilliant man in so many ways. Glad to see his wife and Una brought back to rest with him. Fascinating family.
~B.
It was there for a while, then it disappeared. Weird.
"Young Goodman Browne", "The Celestical Railroad" is "starchy"? (sp?..been a while) Explain "starchy".
If you are going to read three books in your life, read the "Iliad", Shakespeare ( you pick ) and Moby Dick. Without a doubt Moby Dick is the greatest American novel ever written. I read it, the Scarlet Letter and others in high school. PETA has banned Moby Dick from schools due to cruelity to animals. It is the struggle of man, good and evil, God and the devil, civilized and uncivilized, the clash of cultures, man vs nature and Melville wrapped it up into the chase for the whale. He reached for the stars and they touched him with greatest.
Moby Dick was listed as one of the 10 most boring books in some survey I saw, along with Don Quioxte. I have to agree although the first few chapters of Don Quioxte were pretty funny.
"PETA has banned Moby Dick from schools due to cruelity (sic) to animals."
I certainly haven't heard that. What it is, is cruelty to kids in school. Moby Dick is a great book, I reread it every few years (that great first paragraph always pulls me in...), but it's not about whales. It's about obsession, and what it can do to a person. That's something we understand better by our forties than we do in our teens.
--Hawthorne I believe was a brilliant man in so many ways.
And a conservative by nature.
Or you are a pompous ass. No one has God's own taste in art although a lot of people pretend to.
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