There was a foster son, a little boy the Cabadings had adopted. ... The lovers asked her father's permission to wed. ... The daughter, mother, the foster-son, the maids and even the dogs trembled when the lifted his voice. ... "You don't know my father-in-law," he groaned. ... He talked it over with her, then they went to tell her father. ...
Loosely based on the events of Hawthorne's own life, The House of the Seven Gables attempts to show the suffering of descendants forced to repent for the sins of their "father", while they are unknowingly renewing the curse by nurturing the ancestral greed that has passed through the generations. ... An overbearing, terrifying, and guilty "father" is matched against innocent but emotionally withered "children". ... It is suggested that the reason she has remained unmarried is because she harbors deep feelings for the Portrait of the Pyncheon family's cursed father, Colonel Pync...
War is a terrible thing. A terrible thing that is necessary to keep my country safe. I joined the military so I could give back and protect my loved ones and my country. I knew war was going to change my life but I never thought it would be this dramatic of a change. My name is Axle Steele and I ...
