The Scarlet Letter
              Nathaniel Hawthorne
    
    The young pastor's voice was tremendously sweet, rich, deep, 
and broken. The feeling that is so evidently manifested, rather
than the direct purport of the words, caused it to vibrate within 
all hearts, and brought to the listeners into one accord of sympathy.
Even the poor baby, at Hester's bosom, was affected by the same
influence;   for it directed its hitherto vacant gaze towards Mr.
Dimmsedale, and held up its little arms, with a half pleased, half
plaintive murmur. So powerful seemed the minister's appeal, that
the people could not believe but that Hester Prynne would speak
out the guilty name; or else that the guilty one himself, in what-
ever high or lowly place he stood, would be drawn forth by an
inward and inevitable necessity, and compelled to ascend the 
scaffold.
                    Hester shook her head.


I believe Hester was brave to stand up for the man who sinned with her. For the man who sinned was the young pastor. She knew what she did was wrong and she was willing to deal with her punishment, and accept that she did something wrong. I do NOT agree with her sin at all, but she dealed with it.

This book is a great book, I would not suggest it to younger aged kids though, because they migth not be able to understand the book. It is a good literature book, and a very interesting one at that.

The Light in The forest

Conrad Richter

Three times that day the boy tried to get the

root of the May apple. His white guard, Del, gave

him no chance. When he went from the council

house, the guard kept hold of him like a haltered

beast. He would have to wait till he was on the

march. Some time tomorrow they would pass

through a wooded meadow. At the place of the

May apple he would fall to the ground. When they

Lifted him up, he would have the death medicine

in his hands.

The authors subject is about the boy, and how no matter what he would rather die instead of meet his real parents, the 'evil whites who killed his ancestors'. I think the purpose of this paragraph is to show you the boy is loyal to his Indian parents, and that the child has only know his Indian parents and doesn't want to be some white mans child. I am not sure what type of audience this writer had in mind, but I think he meant it for teens or maybe even younger kids to show some of the situations we first met when discovering America. I understand the boys actions, I know I would not want to be separated from my parents. If it were a case of having two sets of parents I would want the option to pick who I decide to live with, and not the decision made for me. I so far like this book and hope in the end the boy gets to be with whio he wants to be with.

The Brief Bedford Reader

X.J.Kennedy, Dorothy M. Kennnedy, Jane E. Aaron

'Disability' by Nancy Mairs

"And if you live long enough, as you're increasingly likely able to do,

you may well join it. The transition will probably be difficult from a

physical point of view not matter what. But it will be a good bit easier

psychologically if you are accustomed to seeing disability as a normal

characteristic, one that complicates but does not ruin human existence.

Achieving this integration, for disabled and able-bodied people alike,

requires that we insert disability into our field of vision:quietly, naturally,

in the small and common scenes of our ordinary lives."

To me this passage says a lot because there are days when I am going about my business and I will see a handicapped person, and without realizing it I will stare, and I feel horrible when I realize I do. If the world were to make disabilities not such a big deal then we would go about our daily routine without staring at disabled people and making them feel like they are some freak.. Eventually people would stop staring, denying them work, and giving them the cold shoulder, and disabled people would be able to become more important because people wouldn't be holding them back. Who knows a disabled person could become the next president for all we know. This is a great essay to read, and has a lot of in depth material.