Cold Sassy Tree By Olive Ann burns The book Cold Sassy Tree, by Olive Ann Burns, takes place in Cold Sassy, Georgia. The protagonists are Rucker Blackslee and a young man that goes by the name of Will Tweedy. Rucker Blakeslee and his new bride, Miss Love Simpson, attempt to live happily and ignore the town's and the Blackslee family's general condemnation of their union. Will struggles to grow up and maintain his integrity with all the drama that is happening. This novel is about an old man growing young because after his wife Mattie Lou Blakeslee passed away he decided to move on and make Miss Love Simpson his new bride.
The scene might be compared with that in the novel Scarlet Letter, where reverend Dimmesdale, suffering guilty conscience delivers the speech which makes all the people astonished. Regarding people’s attitude towards Mr Hopper, they commences to be reserved, for instance an old lady Squire Saunders with whom he has dinner every Sunday does not invite him after the sermon. The situation presents true nature of Puritans, namely their intolerance and obsession over sin. In the afternoon, the reverend officiates the funeral of a young woman during which the veil still covers his face, however there is a scene in which he stand over the coffin from which his face is visible. Parishioners realise that if the woman was alive, Mr Hooper’s eyes would have met with hers which they interpret as unification of their spirits: "the minister and the maiden's
Harry Baily is the lead pilgrim and is identified as "the host," states that in order to win the contest the pilgrim must tell “tales of best sentence and moost solaas,” this means that the pilgrim which tells the tale with a moral lesson and must be entertaining to the group during the few days that it took to make their way from London to their destination (800). Chaucer was unable to finish his one hundred twenty tales he originally planned one writing and only completed twenty-four. The most noticeable of these twenty-four tales belong to two of the most beloved pilgrims by his readers and Chaucer himself. Even though "The Pardoners Tale" was entertaining and moral "The Wife Of Baths Tale" is obviously the more moral and entertaining of the two tales. "The Wife of Bath's tale" is the more likely candidate to win against "The Pardoner's Tale" in morality side of the host's competition, the more important of the two qualities.
Characteristic of Hale In the book “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller, there is a very creepy and interesting old man. The story is about a village that are all puritans and some teen age girls start blaming each other of witch craft to avoid a death sentence or to get out of trouble. The man happens to not be part of the village but a vaster just passing by, who in my mind over stayed his visit. Hale is an old preacher who has been searching for proof of witches and finds a village that is said to be filled with them. “Nearing forty, tight skinned, and eager eyed,” So just imagine a man that is really old with bulging eyes looking for witches.
He was summoned by a nurse to hear the dying confessions of an SS Nazi soldier. The soldier wanted forgiveness on behalf of all Jewish people for the things he had done to their fellow brothers. He asked for forgiveness as he was dying because he was afraid that his soul would not be able to rest eternally unless he was forgiven. Simon tries continuously to leave the room in fear of his own life, and also because of his learned hatred of Nazis. He stays and listens to the dying man out of pity and also because the soldier asks and begs him not to leave.
Grant is a middle aged black man who knows of all the racism in his community and he let's it's affect him by hating his life and almost everything in it. Grant is forced to visit Jefferson from his aunt and Emma. When Grant begins to visit Jefferson things don't go so well. After a certain visit Grant realizes that he wasn't so angry anymore and he couldn't stay mad at anything for long (Gaines 125). Also, Grant used to be a very hostile man and he didn't care for anything but from visiting Jefferson he started to care about his life and the things in it, he dedicated his whole self to helping Jefferson become a man and he would get into arguments defending his choices with his aunt even if she was very important to him and they never fought.
04 March 2009 A Dream with Profound Effect In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown”, we read about a devout protestant who takes the reader on a journey of symbolism. Goodman Brown, newly married leaves his wife at dusk to venture in the woods and meet a mysterious man. We do not know his purpose of his travel but are led to believe that it is something dark, and evil. Goodman Brown becomes agitated at the reason and expectation of his journey that he thinks twice about returning home, yet he resumes on. Goodman Brown discovers others that he recognizes.
For example, Wright is enrolled in school late due to his family’s extreme poverty and that whites try to keep African Americans uneducated as a form of oppression. But that does not stop Wright. His mother helps him to learn to read by reading the newspaper, and the coal deliveryman teaches him to count. Wright has grown to fear the color white. So much so that as a child he runs away from a foster home and encounters a white police officer and does not know if the police officer is going to hurt him or not.
According to Baldwin who had experienced the hatred while he was living in New Jersey and the racism that he faced there in the restaurant for instance, as long as with father’s experiences of racism and his deep silence where hatred attacked his mind while allowed destroying his body as well. It turned him into a tornado of moans, hallelujas, snatches of old songs and terrors; “hating and fearing every living soul including his children.” It then transforms the person to uncharitable, unforgivable, and unmerciful one and let him live in a bitterness solely and in a difficulty to establish contact with other people until death. Therefore, hatred is a killer
Joe’s father falls into a deep black hole of no return and in the end takes his own life in his shed. As a result, Joe learns nothing from his father except for the feeling of abandonment and how suicide is the ‘easy way out’. Joe feels cheated by his father too. Elijah and Walt, having both experienced Post Traumatic Stress have come to forgive themselves and have used Joe and Thao to finally let themselves free and in Walt’s situation something that has been bottling up for years and years. From this, both young boys learn about courage, the preciousness of life and about forgiveness.