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The Scarlet Letter Study Guide Ques. (not double spaced)

1. What is the primary purpose for the Custom House introduction?
The primary purpose for the Custom House introduction was to be an autobiography of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s life but also ended up being an explanation on how the story “The Scarlet Letter” came to exist. While explaining his life in deep description he tells leads to the origins of his book and from that point the primary purpose of the Custom House introduction is lost and forgotten.
The Custom House introduction started out as and autobiography of author Nathaniel Hawthorne’s life. He explained he was in his native town of Salem and was reminiscing of the past when he worked in the Custom House. While he worked in the Custom House he found an old piece of scarlet cloth in the shape of an “A” and also a letter belonging to the deceased Surveyor Jonathan Pue. Not only does Hawthorne tell readers about his past in this introduction but also gives us an idea of how he came about his idea for this story. He proves this statement with this quotes which states, “,that this Custom House sketch has certain propriety, of a kind always recognized in literature, as explaining how a large portion of the following pages came into possession,”. In this quote “the following pages” refers to the actual chapters of the book or “The Scarlet Letter”.

2. What significant change does Hawthorne admit to making in telling the story contained in the dairy?
The significant change Hawthorne admitted was taking the original “Scarlet Letter” and “dressing it up”. In other words made the story more interesting to the readers put his own ideas of what the original people thought or felt during the original events. He used the original letter as a guideline to the book he wrote.
Hawthorne tried to take a deeper look into the narratives that Mr. Surveyor Pue left behind and imagine the original character’s passion for their motives. On page thirty-three Hawthorne describes how he feels that Mr. Pue wants him to tell this story and has given it to him to profit from. While trying to get a deeper look into the narratives he tried to make the original characters more life-like and giving them a believable personality and “dress it up”.

3. What potential impact will this change have on the story?
Since the narratives were just a full explanation of an old affair and conversation with a Hester Prynne, Hawthorne had to “dress up” the story quite a lot. Hawthorne had to invent all the personalities of the characters and read between the lines of the narrative. That fact would mean the change would have a huge impact on the story because most of the story would be Hawthorne’s imagination and only a small part actual truth. Since the reader’s have not read the original manuscript they are ignorant to fiction or nonfiction of the story. The biggest part of the change would be in the way the story is told.

Scarlet Letter Vocab. three times each

1. abase abase abase
2. abate abate abate
3. abstruse abstruse abstruse
4. absyss absyss absyss
5. acuity acuity acuity
6. affinity affinity affinity
7. alacruity alacrity alacrity
8. alchemist alchemist alchemist
9. alloy alloy alloy
10. amenable amenable amenable
11. antipathy antipathy antipathy
12. append append append
13. arduous arduous arduous
14. ascend ascend ascend
15. ascetic ascetic ascetic
16. audacity audacity audacity
17. augury augury augury
18. auspicious auspicious auspicious
19. balm balm balm
20. benevolence benevolence benevolence
21. benign benign benign
22. austere austere austere
23. betoken betoken betoken
24. blighted blighted blighted
25. buoyant buoyant buoyant

Anne Bradstreet Response

Anne Bradstreet lived in a time when women had traditional roles of caregiver and housewife. In her time most women did go far in the educational field and didn’t have much of an education. Writing poetry was a secret hobby of hers that she shared with her close family and friends. In her to poems “The Author to Her Book” and “To My Dear and Loving Husband” she gives a view of life as an educated woman and loving wife.
In the poem “The Author to Her Book” Anne expresses her feelings about her poetry being published without her permission. In her poem she describes the book as a baby and her, the mother with diction, for example the words “offspring” and “brat”. She also shows resentment towards her family and friend, John Woodbridge who published the book. Anne conveys how embarrassed and ashamed that her works would be released into the world for all to see when she could see so many errors that could have been fixed. She felt it was too late to fix the mistakes she saw and that others were judging her work. In the last twenty-four lines she conveys that she wants the book to go far away where no one knows of it and if anyone asks who its mother or Author is to say she is poor and caused her to abandon it. This poem shows the embarrassment she felt when the world sees her work meant only for her family and friends and is understandable because it appeals to pathos and ethos. She appeals to pathos and explains that the poems in the book were “ill-formed” or ill prepared to be published and anyone would want only their best published for the world. She appeals to ethos and shows how the poems were “snatched from thence by friends, less wise than true” and it was wrong for him to steal them and publish them without permission and a true friend wouldn’t have taken that action.
The poem “To My Dear and Loving Husband” shows her strong feelings as a wife. She states “I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold” conveying strong feelings of love and admiration for her husband. The diction of this poem is nothing but loving words and all comparisons are very extreme. Anne’s love for he husband is compared to a thirst that even a river can not quench. Even when death is brought up at the end she says she hopes that they will die and live together forever. The diction paints a vivid picture on how she feels about her husband and appeals to pathos. It appeals to pathos using love as a main idea because most people can relate to love in some way and may even have someone they love.
These poems show a very personal part of her feelings and everyday life. These poems portray a regular everyday woman who gets embarrassed and loves her husband. She shows very human feelings of shame and anger, but also of love and admiration. The readers of the poems could relate to her feelings in “The Author of Her Book” and also “To My Dear and Loving Husband”.

Anne Bradstreet

Thomas Dudley and Dorothy Yorke begot Anne Bradstreet in Northampton, England in the year of 1612. She married at 16 to Simon Bradstreet, an assistant in the Massachusetts Bay Company. In 1630 her family emigrated to the New World. They made a new life in the colonies. Her father took the role of Deputy Governor and husband was Chief Administrator. Anne was very sickly while in the colonies but she thought of the things she loved, her eight children, her husband, and God, to make it through. When her husband had business in other colonies she felt very lonely and read books and taught her children. In that time period she learned many different subjects, but her favorite was poetry. She wrote poetry in secret and only shared it with family and close friends, in fear she would be banished like her Anne Hutchinson. Her works were published in 1650 without her permisson by her brother-law and called "The Tenth Muse Lately Sprang Up in America, By a Gentlewoman of Those Parts" and did well in England. After contracting Tuberculosis and losing her daughter Dorothy she to lost her life on September 16, 1672 at the age of 60. She wrote the first book written by a woman to be published in the United States.

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Cabeza de Vaca picture

Of Cabeza de Vaca that's who! Cabeza de Vaca roamed through wilderness with no clothes while he was lost and shipwreaked with a three other survivors. He befriended many Native Americans throughout the ordeal and learn a great amount about their generousity and their peaceful culture. while stranded the Native Americans accepted him and treated him as their own. He appreicaited their kindness and wrote all about his adventures in a journal when he was found by Christian slave traders.

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I felt that Christopher Columbus was trying to do too many things at the same time. He was trying to "lead" an army on four different voyages around the world for "enterprise of the Indies ". He was trying to "follow" Ferdinand and Isabella and continually wrote to them on how great his discoveries were and how they should give him more time to discover more. He also had to "get out of the way" or avoid further harm while getting arrested and continuously getting himself out of trouble. However, in the end trying to do too much without a main goal only got Christopher Columbus hurt. Deep, I know right.
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get well letter from Isabella. laugh out loud

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It is like the war in iraq and rosa parks in the same comic strip. It is genius! I mean come on, who can come up with that?! MAGNIFICENT!!

Diction

The weeping willow like a dreadlocked dog