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. ... The House of the Seven Gables is a tale of loneliness and greed caused by the sin of preceding generations. ... The remains of the family consist of a decrepit spinster named Hepzibah, now the caretaker of the house of the seven gables; her insane brother Clifford, who was just recentl...

• Word Count: 2711
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

"The house would stink acrid as a sulphur mine" (Line 27) describes the aftermath of "Churning Day", how it would stink. ... In "An Advancement of Learning", Heaney talks about the river being "oil-skinned, wearing a transfer of gables" (Line 4) to describe how polluted it is, yet there is still a grimy reflection in the river. ... Heaney uses personification to describe how things looked: "The river nosed past, pliable, oil skinned, wearing a transfer of gables and sky." ...

• Word Count: 3308
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: High School

Beck-Chenoweth uses a shelter on skids enclosed with chicken wire with litter- covered floors, tarp-covered gable roofs, and doors on both ends. ... He built a 20' x 12' house on a trailer for 100 hens. ... Portable brooder house blueprints obtained from NDSU are enclosed. ... Salatin houses layers in a 20'x120' hoop house in the wintertime in Virginia (see enclosed article "Hoophouses"). ... (See the enclosed article "Building the Homestead Chicken House.") ...

• Word Count: 5020
• Approx Pages: 20
• Grade Level: High School

He does this by using primary characters in the novels The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables, and many short stories who have a problem, like an inner secret, or who have some kind of guilt, and shows how society looks upon these people. ...

• Word Count: 3188
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School