Nathaniel Hawthorne used his writing skills to appropriately show the strict intolerant ways of the disciplined Puritan America of 1850, with his novel The Scarlet Letter. ... Understanding Hawthorne's symbols by themselves is key to understanding The Scarlet Letter as a novel. ... Towards the end of her life, the letter grows to mean "Angel", and "the scarlet letter ceased to be a stigma which attracted the world's scorn and bitterness"(Hawthorne 229) and it was even "looked upon with awe, yet with reverence too." ( Hawthorne 260). ... Hawthorne frequently refers to how Pearl is ...

• Word Count: 2338
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

How many times did we lie to our parents before we began to tell the truth? If we shattered mom's favorite glass vase while she was out, admitting that the baseball was ours would certainly grant us a month in our room. We would often breakdown under the heavy burden of guilt, however, and we ...

• Word Count: 1627
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School