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. ... Also, the last surviving descendant of the Maule lineage, the handsome Holgrave Maule, resides at the house. ... But, when he is exposed to the sunlight--like his picture through a daguerreotype--a harder, colder, more malicious judge is revealed. ... The real significance of the...

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• Grade Level: High School

As the old saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words, but now my objective is to show how one word can be interpreted in a thousand different ways. ... The last word I looked up was pornography. ... The last word I asked her was porno, to bring the mood in the upwards direction. ... The last word porno hit her exactly as I thought. ... That last one didn't work out too bad so I went to one more best friend. ...

• Word Count: 2686
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• Grade Level: High School