Communtiy
Joseph K. Hart once said, "No child can escape his community...The life of the community flows about him, foul or pure; he swims in it, goes to sleep in it, and wakes to the new days to find it still about him. He belongs to it' it nourishes or starves him, or poisons him; it gives him the substance of his life." Community plays a large role in everyone's life; Pearl and Hester of The Scarlet Letter, LeAlan Jones, Lloyd Newman, Eric Morse and his killers, of Ghetto Life 101 and Remorse, and the rest of the world. The four aspects of community are neighborhood, peers or friends, family, and faith. Although, as an individual, a person shapes their own identity; nevertheless, the community that the person lives in plays a significant role in their actions, beliefs, and decisions. Hester Prynne's neighborhood greatly influenced her identity. Although she had already grown up, her personality changed greatly after the labeling of her sin, adultery. Hester's town was very strict with the punishment of sins and the citizens frowned upon many things. Public displays of a person's crime were common. Some may think that the simple task of wearing a scarlet letter is no big deal, but try to raise a child who questions almost everyt
My friends have been there to help. She would stay out all night and stopped going to school. It is stated in American documentation that religion will be kept separate of law thus people are given more leeway compared to the Puritan society where religion is law. In listening to the tapes one moment sticks in my mind and always will. With living in three different neighborhoods I have had three groups of friends, alike and different in some ways, but there are always certain groups of peers that bare a striking resemblence. In the colonial days there was little to worry about. If my parents had exposed me to it as a child I would probably be a little different than what I am but they did not, I don't really have an opinion about faith. Although the neighbor hood played a large part in Hester's hiding of herself; there was a single man who was mostly responsible for her appearance. To completely disown and more or less verbally divorce one's wife will leave the wife scarred and grieving. You can tell a lot about a person by his father, is what one of the boys said that is why they interviewed Tommy. LeAlan just continued playing his videogames like noting happened. Would adultery be a big deal? No, of course not. " How she keeps her positive attitude in a neighborhood like this is in the simple act of faith. The so-called Goths at school they aren't even close to gothic. All she has to turn to is family which she does not, she is a quiet secluded forgotten person, once had a chance, mixed in with the wrong people, and went downhill from there.
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