Chapters 7&8
In these chapters Hester and Pear head to the governors house to deliver a pair of gloves she had made for the governor and to find out if the rumors of pearl are true. The rumors being that pearl may be taken away from her for Hester's sake, if she is a demon child, or to be given a better parent then Hester.
When Chillingworth Dimmesdale and Bellingham enter they make fun of Pearl by calling her a bird. Hester begs Dimmesdale to speak for her and her child so that she can keep Pearl. He calls her both a blessing and a curse. Allowing her to keep her.
For fear of losing pearl Hester did all she could to keep her, and by going to Dimmesdale(who happens to be the father of pearl) she was allowed to keep this child!
Chapters 9&10
Chillingworth renamed himself to hide his past from everyone but Hester, who he had sworn to secrecy. He had been captured by native americans and while held captive he learned natural remedies and gained the physician nickname of a leech. Dimmesdale was falling ill and Chillingworth has began to care for him in hopes to reveal the father of pearl.
Dimmesdale starts to question Chillingworth about a mysterious plant he is using and Chillingworth explains that he found it on an unmarked grave and it may represent someones unconfessed sin. Hester does not live with unburied sin, her mark of the letter A show that and so does pearl. After making this point he begins to question if his illness is from his spiritual health.
He sneaks in later when Dimmesdale is sleeping and lifts his shirt to view on his chest just what he had expected.
Chapters 11&12
Dimmesdale dreams about Hester and pearl and how there is a relation between Hesters scarlet letter and the mark on Dimmesdale's chest.
standing on the scaffold dimmesdale clutches his chest in pain and screams and is afraid that people will awaken. And there is a meteor that darkens the sky in the shape of an A and people see it as Angel being that Winthrop has died and ascended to heaven.
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
The Scarlet Letter Chapters 1-6
First off, i would like to express how addicting this book was for me. I am not normally a romance reader nor am i really interested in anything written more than 10 years ago. However, this book after getting through the first few chapters kept me so intertwined with the reading that i could not help but finish it in one sitting. However, i will be rereading the sections for class so i can write better blog posts about each section we read.
Chapter 1 and 2
The First Chapter talks about the prison with a rose bush in front. The rose bush is a huge symbol for the whole book in many ways. It symbolizes hope, beauty even in darkness, and it also foreshadows the future for young Hester Prynne.
As Hester walks out of the prison with her babe in hand the crowd stares and makes comments that are meant to put her down and they mock her for the Scarlet Letter on her wardrobe meaning Adulterer.
These chapters were the most awkward to get through in my opinion. Trying to visualize all of the people watching her and condemning her was literally the most bothersome thing. I am not the type of person to condemn someone for their mistakes but that is mostly because I come from a different time.
Chapter 3 and 4
the first person she spots in the crowd while looking at all of the people, is none other than the man she married, finally come to the new land. He then asks a man from the town what her crime was and he explains that she was married to a learned english man and that she had committed an act of adultery that lead to the baby and she refuses to reveal the identity of the father.
She meets face to face with her husband (Chillingworth) and gives her medicine. She fears that he might be poisoning her but her fear is calmed when she finds that he needs her alive to gain his revenge. He thinks sympathy will lead him to the guilty party.
The twist added into these chapters was the first that held me in to read more. The fact that there is someone plotting revenge.
Chapters 5 and 6
Hester is released from prison after a few months with the option to leave Boston but she chooses to stay behind. She then moves into and abandoned cabin on infertile land. She remains there alienated and serves as a walking example of a fallen woman. Hester is very talented with a needle and makes a living making clothes for people.
Pearl, Hesters daughter, is described as a beautiful flower growing out of sinful soil, named so because she was bought with all hester had and was her mothers only treasure. Pear is also a moody, passionate and defiant little girl and she got all of those traits from her mother.
These chapters set up a relationship between mother and daughter. It shows how alike they are and yet at the same time shows their differences. Pearl is shown as an outcast just as her mother is. She is called an imp of evil and is referred to as a demon child. Pearl having a small obsession with her mothers lettered wardrobe is asked by Hester what she is and she insists on knowing the origin of the letter, showing that she is very bright. Another handle on my mind to finish reading this book. I wanted to see how the mind of this child developed and how she grew.
Chapter 1 and 2
The First Chapter talks about the prison with a rose bush in front. The rose bush is a huge symbol for the whole book in many ways. It symbolizes hope, beauty even in darkness, and it also foreshadows the future for young Hester Prynne.
As Hester walks out of the prison with her babe in hand the crowd stares and makes comments that are meant to put her down and they mock her for the Scarlet Letter on her wardrobe meaning Adulterer.
These chapters were the most awkward to get through in my opinion. Trying to visualize all of the people watching her and condemning her was literally the most bothersome thing. I am not the type of person to condemn someone for their mistakes but that is mostly because I come from a different time.
Chapter 3 and 4
the first person she spots in the crowd while looking at all of the people, is none other than the man she married, finally come to the new land. He then asks a man from the town what her crime was and he explains that she was married to a learned english man and that she had committed an act of adultery that lead to the baby and she refuses to reveal the identity of the father.
She meets face to face with her husband (Chillingworth) and gives her medicine. She fears that he might be poisoning her but her fear is calmed when she finds that he needs her alive to gain his revenge. He thinks sympathy will lead him to the guilty party.
The twist added into these chapters was the first that held me in to read more. The fact that there is someone plotting revenge.
Chapters 5 and 6
Hester is released from prison after a few months with the option to leave Boston but she chooses to stay behind. She then moves into and abandoned cabin on infertile land. She remains there alienated and serves as a walking example of a fallen woman. Hester is very talented with a needle and makes a living making clothes for people.
Pearl, Hesters daughter, is described as a beautiful flower growing out of sinful soil, named so because she was bought with all hester had and was her mothers only treasure. Pear is also a moody, passionate and defiant little girl and she got all of those traits from her mother.
These chapters set up a relationship between mother and daughter. It shows how alike they are and yet at the same time shows their differences. Pearl is shown as an outcast just as her mother is. She is called an imp of evil and is referred to as a demon child. Pearl having a small obsession with her mothers lettered wardrobe is asked by Hester what she is and she insists on knowing the origin of the letter, showing that she is very bright. Another handle on my mind to finish reading this book. I wanted to see how the mind of this child developed and how she grew.
Friday, February 24, 2012
Mary Rowlandson
Mary Rowlandson had a very difficult life. She wrote about her captivity amongst the indian peoples. She wrote about the difficulties of surviving and the loss of her child as well as the anger and frustration she had toward the Native Americans. However you can notice a real change in the way that she writes as she continues to survive her journey with the native americans. She talks about them being barbarack, with out compassion, and very violent, but that changed as time went on. She started talking about them as people as time went on because of her observations of the body of the people. She soon started to see traces of humanity, especially when they buried her dead child.
Anne Bradstreet was truly an amazing poet. She had the main puritan ideas, some that she did disagree with, but still upheld what the idea of a puritan woman was supposed to do. She took her free time to write her poetry and become a greater poet. While talking about Bradstreet in the lit circles i was able to compare an instance in my life with the event of her home burning. Upon having my car broken into and my things being stolen, the poem about her house burning, opened my eyes to the fact that God really was a great God that could give and take things away, but he still provides. I have gained a lot of knowledge from Bradstreets poetry about God and how he uses events in peoples lives to change them.
Bradstreet was a very passionate woman, in some ways it seemed as though she was being sarcastic about the things she was experienceing in life, but really she was serious about them. She felt that it wasn't right for women to be looked down on but she kept her thoughts to herself and confined them to the words she wrote on paper.
Bradstreet was a very passionate woman, in some ways it seemed as though she was being sarcastic about the things she was experienceing in life, but really she was serious about them. She felt that it wasn't right for women to be looked down on but she kept her thoughts to herself and confined them to the words she wrote on paper.
Benjamine Franklin
Benjamine Franklin really lived "The American Dream." As a child his dad planned to offer him as a tithe to the church and enrolled him in grammar school so that he could then go on to become a minister. I feel for this Benjamin had a little bit of resentment toward his father and toward religion in the way that he described how different religions tend to clash and create tension between one another. However, he still seemed to have some belief because he made an effort to better himself by recording his sins in a chart. I feel as though he did believe in God but just wasn't one to practice a certain religion or denomination.
Franklin as a younger child learned about the printing press. His own works were published and with out those he probably would not have had the motivation to run away and do something with his life. Through his life he continually worked toward the next goal he had set after acheiving another. He like the idea of standing for something and doing whatever he could to change things so that he could become a better man that had something to do with the things going on in society.
Franklin as a younger child learned about the printing press. His own works were published and with out those he probably would not have had the motivation to run away and do something with his life. Through his life he continually worked toward the next goal he had set after acheiving another. He like the idea of standing for something and doing whatever he could to change things so that he could become a better man that had something to do with the things going on in society.
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
I believe that Jonathan Edwards dives in deep with this fire and brimstone preaching. He starts off the title of this sermon describing God as angry. Its almost as if he is using this as a tactic to scare the church goers into beleiving in God or they will for sure burn in hell and that if they don't do what God has said in the bible they will still burn in hell. God is a very compassionate God, he did, afterall, send his only son to die for our sins so that if we believe in him we can be saved. In the later section of the sermon he briefly mentions how God is loving but then delves right back into the angry God speil. I felt as though if i had attended his church and if he preached this kind of message i would find myself going to a different church.
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