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John Winthrop's "A Model of Christian Charity"
Quotes:For we must consider that we shall be as a City upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us.
- John Winthrop
Summary: The passage is a speech given to the members on board the ship and it basically states that the puritans need to be a good model for everyone else like a city upon a hill.
Reflection on Era: This reflects one of the first colonizations of Puritan community and how they need to be a model. -
Jonathan Edwards' "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
Quotes:"dangling “over the pit of hell” but would be rescued from damnation that day "
Summary: Edwards basically states that God is getting angry with all the sinners and that the sinners will eventually feel the wrath of God.
Reflection of the Era: This can relate to the era because during that time the puritans believed that they had to be respectful in every way to God and not sin and that God will punish the sinners. -
Patrick Henry's Speech to the Virginia Convention
Quotes: "This brought on the war which finally separated the two countries and gave independence to ours."
Summary: This passage by Patrick Henry basically states that the colonies must prepare and fight back for their independance and that the British are already ready and prepared for battle.
Reflection of the Era: this speech can relate to the era because this is when the Colonies were fighting for their independance. -
Benjamin Franklin's "The Autobiography"
Quotes:"Truth, sincerity, and integrity, in dealings between man and man, were of the utmost importance to the felicity of life."
Summary:This passage was basically Ben Franklin describing his experience in Boston and how the 13 virtues should be followed for goodness.
Reflection of the Era: This reflects on the Era because this is when the people believed that goodness would lead to good rewards and purity. -
William Cullen Bryant's "Thanatopsis"
Quote:"To him who, in the love of Nature, holds
Communion with her visible forms, she speaks
A various language: for his gayer hours "
Summary:The poem basically describes nature and death and states that everyone will face death but nature will sooth the pain and agony and that everyone will end up going to the same place.
Reflection of the Era: This reflects on the era because this is when people wrote about nature and the cycle of death. -
Washington Irving's "the Devil and Tom Walker"
Quote:"Tom was a hard-minded fellow, not easily daunted, and he had lived so long with a termagant wife, that he did not even fear the devil."
Summary: This story is about Tom Walker and how he encounters the devil and makes a deal with him. The conclusion is that when dealing with the devil, the devil always wins.
Reflection of Era:This reflects on the era because this is when the stories relfected on evil and demons and sins. -
Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Minister's Black Veil"
Quotes:"But what has good Parson Hooper got upon his face?"
Summary: This passage is basically about how the Minister reveals that he has sin and shows it by wearing the black veil forever. It concludes that everyone has secret sin.
Reflection on Era: This reflects to the Era because it relates to evil and sin. -
Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Nature"
Quotes:Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Summary: The passage describes the beauty of nature and how nature should be viewed with an open mind.
Reflection on Era: this relates to the era because it's when people were relating to nature to vent and find happy places. -
Henry David Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience"
Quotes:"I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not so desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right."
Summary:this passage basically describes how the government shouldn't be in full control and how the individual should have a bigger say in the community. also how his experience of disobidience.
Reflection of Era: this is during the trans. era and where the people believed in individualism and free thinking. -
Thoreau's Walden
Quotes:"Let us first be as simple and well as Nature ourselves, dispel the clouds which hang over our brows, and take up a little life into our pores."
Summary:This is about Thoreau's experience cut off from society, living in a cabin on Emmerson's land. He tells about his experiences and what not.
Reflection: This reflects to the era because this is when the transcendentalists were experimenting and doing things that reflected upon nature. -
Longfellow's The Cross Of Snow
Quotes:That, sun-defying, in its deep ravines Displays a cross of snow upon its side.
Summary:This passage is basically about the author grieving about the loss of his wife. He relates his agony to a cross on the side of a snowy mountain.
Reflection:This reflects to the era because he incorporates nature and sadness into his writing. -
The Tide Rises the Tide falls
Quotes:The day returns, but nevermore Returns the traveler to the shore.
Summary: The Passage basically states how life is like the waves, life is started then ended then started then ended and so forth and eventually everyone falls.
Reflection:This reflects on the Era because it uses nature to represent the cycles of life. -
Gilman's Yellow Wallpaper
Quotes: He said that after the wall-paper was changed it would be the heavy bedstead, and then the barred windows, and then that gate at the head of the stairs, and so on.
Summary:The passage is basically about the experience of a woman who slowly starts to go insane and has to bust of the wallpaper.
