.... the citizens of Boston look down and condemn her for the sin she committed. Although Hester is clearly a Puritan, she does fully acknowledge her sin and boldly displays it to the world. She dresses Pearl in scarlet as a second symbol, and wears the scarlet A long after she could have removed it. All these things are proof that she was trying to hide nothing. Hester’s salvation lies in truth. Adultery also led to Hester having psychological consequences. She experienced much shame and guilt. As one of her punishments for her sin, she was forced to stand .....

.... to speak in pulpits stopped coming; and all the loved ones she knows during her ten years in Atlanta just smile at her and walk in the opposite direction, Ava Johnson decides to sell her hair salon and moves to San Francisco but wants to summer in Idlewild, the small town in northern Michigan where she grew up. Now just a half-abandoned dot on the map, Idlewild offers the only safe haven for Ava, now nearly 30. Telling herself she's just visiting her older sister, Joyce, for a few weeks before she moves on to San Francisco, sophisticated Ava is nevertheless .....

.... as Nature begins to start the penance leading towards forgiveness - "Water, water, everywhere nor any drop to drink." When "the mariner begins to find his salvation when he begins to look on the 'slimy things' as creatures of strange beauty" (Fraser 203), he understands the Albatross was a symbol of nature and he realized what he had done wrong. The mariner is forgiven after sufficient penance - "We could not speak" - is performed by Nature. Nature shows us more strength as we realize that people of today often can not forgive someone who has shot or killed .....

.... end up on a train trestle, high above a black abyss. At a critical moment, Roland must choose between letting Jake drop and finally catching the dark man. Though it agonizes him, he watches Jake fall, Jake's last words echoing in his ears: "Go, then. There are other worlds than these." Roland eventually catches the “man in black”. The “man in black” gives the gunslinger a vision, which nearly explains the cosmos to Roland. Then Roland has his future read with tarot cards. (You know those ones the physics use, hahahaha) The “man in black says,"Three is the numbe .....

.... a certain detachment which allows us to recognise Catherine's foibles and touching innocence. Many of the mistakes that Margaret Oliphant talks about in her description of Catherine in the title above come from Catherine's extreme innocence. Jane Austen's heroine arrives in Bath as a young debutante and, entirely inexperienced in the ways of the world, is immediately impressed by the more sophisticated Isabella. After their first meeting this is clear as she watches her leave; "(she) admired the graceful spirit of her walk, the fashionable air of her fi .....

.... neither one truly cares. As the story progresses, it seems as though each of them is trying to make the other more jealous. Honesty and Love, two words know only by the faithful, George Wilson. George certainly had his flaws, but he loved his wife dearly and couldn't live without her. "He was his wife's man and not his own." When he became aware of Tom and Myrtle's affair, he was "really sick, pale as his own pale hair and shaking all over." He locks her up in fear that she will run away with Tom forever. He stated that, "She's going to move stay there .....

.... from whites, the tension would always be there and he would never trust a white person enough to let his guard down. Racial prejudice had indefinitely effected Richard’s early life. Racial prejudice often leads to physical violence. Richard’s life was invariably surrounded by racial tension and had often seen as well as experienced the hate violence. When Richard had once worked at a cheap clothing store in Jackson, he had seen the boss and his son drag a poor black women into the back alley and had beat and whipped her. "The floor was bloody, strewn with .....

.... until they are chosen for the stoning. Before the lottery, people are joking and gathering like it was a party. Once the “lucky” participant has been chosen their cries of compromise are let out and this has no effect on the crowd at hand. Being one of the stoners, you are unwilling to recognize the screams of pain and the sights of blood. This sacrifice ensures the town’s economic success and their ability to feed the families. Crops are the lives of these families and if they fail there may not be enough food to feed this small to .....