Reading Poem

hawthorne # 8 to be graded

While reading Hawthorne's stories quiet a few aspects of " Rappaccinis daughter" and " The Artist of the Beautiful " can be compared to each other. One that particularly caught my attention was the characters. First we can compare Annie and Beatrice, both of who were beautiful and young. Both women were love interest in both stories. In "Rappaccinis daughter" and in "Artist of the Beautiful", the relationships the women were in did not prosper due to no fault of their own.
Two other important characters that can be compared are Rappaccini who is the father of Beatrice, and Peter Hovenden who is the father of Annie. Rappaccini favors science over people and makes his daughter poisonous. I don't think he is much of a people person. Peter Hovenden is also a older man who is hard to deal with and is unliked by his apprentice. Both of these stories have a lot in common and can be easily compared.

1st 2 paragraphs of 2nd paper on poe

Edgar Allan Poe, the 19th century American writer, literary critic, editor, and poet, is best known as one of the first American practitioners of the short story. In addition to his tales of horror and mystery, Poe is considered the creator of the detective fiction genre and credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction.
There is extensive disagreement, however, on the merits of Poe's poetry. According to Enotes.com Ralph Waldo Emerson labeled Poe "the jingle man." Many of Poe's colleagues criticized many of his verses, mainly his later incantatory poems like "The Raven." This view is shared by modern critic Dave Smith who states " " The Raven," although Poe's best known individual poetic work , " may be among our most famous bad poems." (1995)
I personally believe Poe is one of the greatest writers of our time and that his personal trials in life played a major role in his works. Death surrounded him. He lost his mother at a young age, he lost his brother as well as his wife, death and horror was a part of his life and I believe he wrote about what he knew.

emerson #7 revised for the last time!!!!

Emerson, He is a complex individual with strong beliefs. Emerson had his own perception of what was right or wrong, and you were either with him or you weren't. I found his essay on nature hard to understand , and what I did understand, I did not totally agree with. Emerson believed the world was made for us and that the world works for us. This is true to an extent, but man has abused the earth in many ways, and that is why we are facing some of the great scientific issues we are facing today.
The world may have been made for us, but not for us (man) to abuse. I do not believe the world " Works for us". We should be working to preserve the earth for future generations. Nature is a beautiful thing when it is uncorrupted by man, and man can make nature beautiful with enhancements. Man can plant trees and do landscaping.
I also noticed Emerson's style of writing is similar to Whitman. Some what complex, and complicated. Like Whitman, Emerson forces you to think about what he is saying to the point where you find your self re- reading the same lines over and over again, trying to figure out what he wants you to take away from the sentence. In other words I had trouble getting through "Nature"and wonder whether what Emerson is saying could not have been said more clearly.

Rip Van Winkle

What an interesting man. Everyone in the town loved him including children and dogs, he would work hard for others but not for himself or his family. He let his land go to waste, and his children walk around raggedy. His wife nagged him to take responsibility but it was too much for poor Rip. Without retelling the story we know Rip Van Winkle falls asleep for 20 years and wakes up to everything foreign.

The occurring theme in this story is time. So much has changed in 20 years. His wife has passed as well as his dog. He has lost his network of friends and everything that was familiar to him. Rip is in a "time crisis". The small stream that he remembers is now a gushing river 20 yrs later, nothing is the same, time has changed everything he knew.

Thoreau #6 revised for the last time!!!!

Henry David Thoreau lived in the woods for two years, taking advantage of everything he saw around him. Nothing was taken for granite. The way he describes things makes everything seem so delightful and breathtaking. " I got up early and bathed in the pond; that was a religious exercise, and one of the best things which I did. They say that characters were engraven on the bathing tub of King Tching-thang to this effect: Renew thyself completely each day; do it again, and again,and for ever again." (pg1680)
Thoreau descriptions are, so clear as if you are right there beside him. Even at times when what he describes is not so bright he turned it into some thing good: "My house was not finished for winter, but was merely a defense against the rain, without plastering or chimney, the walls being rough, weather stained boards, with wide chinks, which made it cool at night. The upright white hewn studs and freshly planed door and window castings gave it a clean and airy look, especially in the morning,when it's timbers were saturated with dew, so that I fancied that by noon some sweet gum would exude from them." (pg1677)
Thoreau living in the woods, has very little but he is satisfied with how he is living. However, he does not seem as happy with how everyone else is living. He is content with living a simple life and wants others to see it as well: " For a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone."

Comparrison of Harriet Jacobs & Frederick Douglass #5 revised for the last time!!!!

Both Harriet Jacobs and Frederick Douglass were slaves that wanted their freedom. Both of them were taught by their mistresses how to read and write which was forbidden at the time. Learning how to read made both of them at times feel cursed because they got a view of how bad slavery was without a resolution. They also recognized why the white man did not want them to be educated.
The thing that stood out to me was how they were both mixed children ( Mulatto) who constantly compared their slave life to the life of other slaves. On many occasions both of them state that they did not suffer as much as other slaves. For example, Jacobs states" He had never punished me himself, and he would not allow anybody else to punish me." Douglass states " For while at Baltimore I got few whippings, and few slaves could boast of a kinder master and mistress than myself...."
Both Frederick and Jacobs had a lot in common being born and raised in slavery. one thing that they both were able to achieve was learning how to read and write which was a great achievement for a slave at that point in time.