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OF SIN AND SCARLET

OF SIN AND SCARLET. The Scarlet Letter Project. Christopher Ball Period C-D. NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE.

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OF SIN AND SCARLET

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  1. OF SIN AND SCARLET The Scarlet Letter Project Christopher Ball Period C-D

  2. NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in Salem, Massachusetts in 1804. He was a descendant of Puritan settlers; his father was famous in witch-executing trials, and one of his ancestors was one of the first New England Puritan settlers. He didn’t want to be remembered for his father’s actions, so he added the “w” to his last name. His father died at sea due to illness, and this made his mother overly protective. Hawthorne turned out to be very shy and bookish because of his mother, traits that made him into the writer that he was. Hawthorne started writing after graduating from Bowdoin College and published his first book. It did not achieve much success, however he kept writing. Some of these works were considered his best, but for some reason, he denied the publication of his stories twice. His poor income forced him to work as a Boston Custom House measurer. By 1824, he earned enough to marry Sophia Peabody. Hawthorne continued to write, but it still failed to support him. He returned to Salem and was appointed surveyor of the Boston Custom House, however he was dismissed when Zachary Taylor became president. Being free from work, he published many works, one of which was The Scarlet Letter. He devoted himself to writing and resided in Europe for a few years. He befriended many writers such as Holmes, Emerson, Melville, and Longfellow. Hawthorne wrote one last novel, The Marble Faun, before falling ill and dying on May 19th, 1864, in Plymouth, New Hampshire. He was buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord, Massachusetts. Although he is gone, he is still referred to as one of the greatest American writers. As Longfellow said in a review of Hawthorne’s Twice-Told Tales, “Another characteristic of this writer is the exceeding beauty of his style. Indeed he uses words as mere stepping-stones, upon which, with a free and youthful bound, his spirit crosses and recrosses the bright and rushing stream of thought.”

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