Captain Hathorne Research Paper

Once, a mother and a father decided it would be a great idea to teach their four year old daughter Rianna how to play the new Hot Wheels video game. The Father reached over to the Xbox and turned on the new game. As Rianna begins to play, her parents’ over-eager attempts to help her just get in the way. Contradictory commands are flying everywhere and young Rianna is distraught and confused. “Go, go, go… now stop quickly!”, says the mother. “See, you still are not doing it right. You do it like this!”, says the father as he yanks the remote from the hands of Rianna. At this point, the parents have been bickering for ten minutes over how the other was not giving Rianna proper directions to win the game. While bickering over which of the couple

Nathaniel was the only son of Captain Nathaniel Hathorne and Elizabeth Clarke Manning Hathorne. In 1808 Captain Hathorne died and Nathaniel’s mother and two sisters were forced to move out of their old home and into the home of Elizabeth’s relatives. The family Nathaniel grew up in a household of majority women with no strong male role model to look up to. Soon after, a leg injury forced Hawthorne to remain immobile and out of school for a year where he discovered his passion for reading and thinking. His childhood was a tad isolated but not unhappy in the slightest. Nathaniel was the handsome and attractive only son and was idolized by his mother and his two sisters who he grew very fond of. With the financial assistance of his two affluent uncles, In 1821, Hawthorne entered Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. Two of his classmates that went on to build prestigious career were Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, who would become a distinguished poet and Harvard professor, and Franklin Pierce, future 14th president of the United States. Hawthorne graduated in the middle of his class in 1825. In a writing on his career aspirations he stated that he did not want to be a doctor and live by men's diseases, nor a minister to live by their sins, nor a lawyer to live by their quarrels. Subsequently, he saw nothing left for him to do but to become an author. This marks the end of Hawthorne’s childhood and

In this time period, Nathaniel added the “w” onto his birth name “Hathorne”, changing it to “Hawthorne”. Analysts believe that because Nathaniel’s grandfather was John Hathorne, one of the three judges at the Salem witchcraft trials, Nathaniel carried a cumbersome load of guilt on his shoulders which caused him to make the name change. Many analysts believe this had an immense influence on his writings as well. This very well may have been the reason for his many writings on guilt and selfishness. Soon thereafter, dissatisfied with his first novel “Fanshaw: A Tale, at his own expense”, Hawthorne attempted to buy up all the copies so that no one could read it. He did not publish another novel for almost 25 years. It was not until 1837 that Hawthorne finally began to receive recognition for his works when Edgar Allen Poe not only wrote warmly of Hawthorne's book but also took the opportunity to define the short story in his well known work Twice-Told Tales. In 1838, Hawthorne met Sophia Amelia Peabody, and the following year they were engaged. It was at this time that Hawthorne invested a thousand dollars of his meager capital in the Brook Farm. There he became acquainted with Ralph Waldo Emerson and the naturalist Henry David Thoreau. These philosophical thinkers influenced in the truths of nature and