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Entry #4 1-27-12

"The black Veil So far I am on page 83 in the Book __Twice Told Tales__. This books greatest strength is the great vocabulary and the great describing scenes. If some scene has some type of great importance or meaning is brought up the author provides such great detail that you know almost everything about it.l" In this short story there is a town where everyone goes to church all the time everyday. but when they get to their church they see their priest has a thick black veil over his face. Just by seeing this everyone is stricken in horror and everyone is afraid of him. Women leave the sermons men are nervously shifting their feet. When the sermon is over everyone rushes out and begins whispering about what their fears are, what could have happened to their priest for him to do such a thing. The priests love Elizabeth tries to get him to remove the veil because she is not afraid like everyone else, but then all of the sudden it hits her and she is terrified. Even to his death no one ever saw his face or even tried to uncover it on his death bed. The Priests black Veil

Entry #3 1-27-12 "Death Ridden Wedding" "How shall the widow's horror be represented! It gave her the ghastliness of a dead man's bride. Her youthful friends stood apart, shuddering at the mourners, the shrouded bridegroom, and herself; the whole scene expressed, by the strongest imagery, the vain struggle of the gilded vanities of this world, when opposed to age, infirmity, sorrow, and death." This line is my favorite because it really describes the scene and it gets the overall feeling across.



Entry#2

"The Gray Champion"

The main character in the first short story is an old man who stands up to the corrupt [|parliament officials in England.] The old man has no name, but the "Gray Champion". No one knows who he is, orwhere he came from. The old man always appears when there is great distress in England such as when the revolution started.



Entry #1 The name of the author I will be studying is Nathaniel Hewthorne. The name of the book ill be reading is called __Twice Told Tales__. I can not accurately predict what will happen because it is a collection of short stories.