Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a man who from a young age had a love for literature, and later took a position in 1863 at Harvard (legallanguage.com, Paul Revere's Ride). ... Paul Revere arranged to have the signal in the Old North Church, if the British were coming by land he lit one lantern and if they were coming by sea he would light two lanterns (bostonteapartyship.com, The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere). ... Longfellow wrote the poem Paul Revere's Ride because he saw the Civil war coming to a start and wanted his poem to be a call for people to be courageous for the upcoming...

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When Hawthorne was four years old, his father, who was a sea captain (also named Nathaniel), died of yellow fever. His mother, Elizabeth Manning Hathorne, could not manage 3 young children on her own and moved the family to his uncle Manning's house where he spent the remainder of his youth. When Nathaniel was 9-years-old, he injured his foot and was unable to walk or attend school for a very long period. ... Another one of his works, "Young Goodman Brown", also takes place during the Puritan era and depicts a young man's conflict between the good and evil within humans ("N...

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