Wednesday, October 26, 2011

journal 16 chapter 8

"I am my mother's child,answered the scarlet vision, and my name is pearl."
these is inportant becouse pearl is showing that she isent like the rest of the kids she wont be pushed aroun. also the other kids whould be afred of standing up to him but pearl not being like the other kids and its sorta like she is not a kid i think thet she is alot older then what is semes

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

vocabular sl

1) Dearth- noun -an inadequate supply; scarcity; lack
There is a dearth of kind caring people in the world. 

2) Magnate-noun a person of great influence, importance, or standing in a particular enterprise, field of business, etc. The conductor on the train is the magnate because he runs the howl operation.



3) Opaque-adjective -not transparent or translucent; impenetrable to light; not allowing light to pass through.


4) Veneration noun-the feeling of a person who venerates; a feeling of awe, respect, etc.; reverence: They were filled with veneration for their priests.

5) Florid-adjective reddish; ruddy; rosy: a florid complexion.

6) Esoteric-adjective understood by or meant for only the select few who have special knowledge or interest; recondite: poetry full of esoteric allusions.

7) Malleable-adjective capable of being extended or shaped by hammering or by pressure from rollers.

8) Evanescent-adjective vanishing; fading away; fleeting.


9) Vitiated noun-to impair the quality of; make faulty; spoil.

10) Propensity noun a natural inclination or tendency: a propensity to drink too much.

Friday, October 14, 2011

journal 4

"where now impressed as if they beheld her for the first time,was the scarlet letter so fantastically embroidered and illuminated upon her bosom. it had the effect of a spell taking her out of the ordinary relations with humanity and inclosing her in a sphere by herself."
which is saying that she is not trying at all to hide the letter but insted is just not leting it bither her. but what is going on but the punshment is trully brought out to show that she is defrent from the rest of the pepole and the well forever rember that

Journal #12 page 80

Pearl is so beautiful that no matter what she wears she looks angelic to the human eye.

Journal # 11 page 80

The child Pearl is beautiful and she worthy of being in Eden the perfect place for all mankind. Pearl would be allowed to live in God's heavenly place on earth; Eden. She would be allowed to interact with God's angels. The worlds's first parents is in reference to Adam and Eve. They were cast out of Eden because they ate the forbidden fruit. Eve was deceived by the devil in the guise of the serpent. She then deceived Adam by coaxing him into eating the fruit from the tree of knowledge. They lost their innocence and had to leave the garden of Eden. Pearl is still considered an innocent and would be welcomed in Eden. 

Thursday, October 13, 2011

Journal 10 Pg 78

Hester believes she was given a 6th sense that allows her to now if someone in the Puritan community has done or is thinking about doing something bad according to their church laws. She doesn't know if the 6th sense comes from God or a dark angel. This is very scary or unwanted to her becous she grow up being like every one els and if she has another sense then every one els the that gives.

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Journal # 9 Pg 69

Hester is talking to the doctor. The doctor is determined to find the man who brought about the degration and humilitation of one of the towns finest young ladies by getting her pregnant and leaving her to face the puritans all alone. This is shown when the doctor states, " I shall seek this man as I have sought truth in books; as I have sought gold in alchemy. There is a sympathy that will make me conscious of him."

Journal 8 "pg 66-67"

In order to calm the child down the docter made Hester some medicine that made the child go to sleep.
Hester did not at first approve of giving the child the medicine. She even went so far as to tell the doctor he was trying to harm her child. But when the doctor said he would give it to his own child. Hester gave the medicine to her daughter which calmed the child down.

Journal 7

Hester is not going to tell her daughter who her biological father is because she doesn't want Pearl to search for him or tell someone by accident who he is which would get the man into trouble with the church. She is going to have her daughter rely on God in heaven to be her guiding father. This is shown in the book when Hester is telling Mr.Wilson the following: Hester says to the man " My child must seek a heavenly Father; she shall never know an earthly one!"

journal 13

The Govner Bellinghams machine is so colorfully the furniture has rethes of oaken flowers sculpted so finely in it that it looks like something that would be found in Aladden's palace which is weired because the Puritan home settings are suppose to be bland and plane to the viewers eye.

journal 6

the stranger says "thus she will ... but he will be known!- he will be known!-he will be known!"
we now that the stranger is a liar, but then wy is he saying these lines over and over "he will be known"?
is it posobly becouse he nows or is the one who inpregnated Hester.

journal 5

"who is these this woman?-and wherefore is she here set up to public shame?"
this is saying that their is a person who is pretending not to know who Hester is because he is described as like a snake which is evil and is a symbol of  a sinner. but Hester recognized the person so that means they have met before and he is lying.

Monday, October 10, 2011

journal 3

who religion and law were almost identical and in whose character both were so throughly interfused that the mildest and the severest acts of public discipline were alike made venerable and awful.
which means that the religion and low are the same so if you get caught braking the lows of the church then the the elders in power  well be the judge and jury and well carry out your sentence.

Friday, October 7, 2011

journal 2

what is the rose bush doing out side of  the jail?
"a wild rose-bush covered, in this month of June, with delicate gems which might be imagined to offer their fragrance and fragile beauty to the prisoner as he went in and the condemned criminal as he came forth to his doom in token that the deep hart of Nature could pity and be kind to him."
the rose bush is there to give a moment of happiness to the condemned before there trial and then after it. why is the nature being so nice to every one but all the humans are not being kind? that is because nature doesn't care who you are it just is nice to every one. all the society dos judge you but nature is nice to everyone and it doesn't judge you.

journal 1

Why is the jail so old and every thing else is portrayed as new? Every society has a prison and a cemetery in it.
"the founders of a new colony whatever utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery and another portion as a sit of a prison." What they are saying is now mater how new your society is there well all was be a cemetery and a jail that well look old because they have been around for so long in every society.  That is saying that now one can make the perfect society because there is in human nature to be bad. If you always have bad people then you can never have a utopia.
1) Obsolete adjective no longer in general use; fallen into disuse: an obsolete expression.
The game pong became obsolete when the xbox360 came out they where all thrown away.





2) Paucity adj smallness of quantity; scarcity; scantiness: a country with a paucity of resources.

Nick bank account was so paucity from not working he could not by a new car.



3) Philistine adj a person who is lacking in or hostile or smugly indifferent to cultural values,intellectual pursuits, aesthetic refinement, etc., or is contentedly commonplace in ideas and tastes.
Hitler  was a philistine to the jews in the fact he wanted them all dead.



4) Meticulous adjective taking or showing extreme care about minute details; precise; thorough: ameticulous craftsman; meticulous personal appearance.
The quarter back was vary meticulous in geting the timing of the runner back to be perfect so they could score a point.





5) Officious adjective objectionably aggressive in offering one's unrequested and unwanted services, help, or advice; meddlesome: an officious person. The  officious chilled, when told to put down the toy, bit the teachers ear off.


6) Peruse verb to read through with thoroughness or care: to peruse a report.
Nick mad sheer to peruse hes nots be four the midterms and in return got a B.





7) Mitigate verb to lessen in force or intensity, as wrath, grief, harshness, or pain; moderate.





8) Perfidy noun deliberate breach of faith or trust; faithlessness; treachery: perfidy that goes unpunished.


9) Morose adjectiv gloomily or sullenly ill-humored, as a person or mood.
Obama after saying is wife's name wrong got a morose  look that made Obamas spin shever