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Page 109
... child , what today we would call a hostile child . Hawthorne takes great care to show us from the opening scene of the book that the infant's mother communicates her own turmoil to the child . With remarkable skill he presents this sort ...
... child , what today we would call a hostile child . Hawthorne takes great care to show us from the opening scene of the book that the infant's mother communicates her own turmoil to the child . With remarkable skill he presents this sort ...
Page 110
... child , in which an anxious , confused , rebellious mother persists in looking “ fear- fully " at her daughter , in asking , " Child , what art thou ?, " and then in allowing the child to be ruled , not by discipline but by its own ...
... child , in which an anxious , confused , rebellious mother persists in looking “ fear- fully " at her daughter , in asking , " Child , what art thou ?, " and then in allowing the child to be ruled , not by discipline but by its own ...
Page 121
... child first , and that they marry if the child is a boy . Rosa scorns him then , and he proceeds to conceive a bastard child with the fifteen - year- old granddaughter of the one man who has remained perfectly faithful to him : a poor ...
... child first , and that they marry if the child is a boy . Rosa scorns him then , and he proceeds to conceive a bastard child with the fifteen - year- old granddaughter of the one man who has remained perfectly faithful to him : a poor ...
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