The pie A critical life is to not steal from others because it is an unethical action. Usually the aftermath of stealing results in feelings of guiltiness, regret, and abashment. The autobiography A Summer Life by Gary Soto is about Soto’s childhood experiences in the 1960’s. In the particular vignette, “The Pie”, Soto’s childhood self steals a pie from the market and is instantly hit with sensation of shamefulness. In “The Pie”, Soto uses religious allusions and tone to revive the theme of guilt, regret, and nervousness that he felt as a six-year-old boy stealing a pie.
Man was created first , and woman created only to aid him. To me this does not convey complete justice on behalf of God. After the serpent fools Adam and Eve into eating from the forbidden tree, Adam is very quick to blame Eve despite the fact that he has eaten the fruit of his own accord. ‘The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree and I ate it’. Adam doesn’t face up to his own responsibility and tries to hang Eve for it.
Arrogance in pride has the potential to ruin a man’s integrity, destroy his life, and even drive a settlement to insanity. Salem experiences all of the previous and more because of the arrogance of those involved in the Salem Witch Trials. Nathan Hale is one of the few men involved in the trials who had potential to prevent its tragedies from ever occurring. When Reverend Hale was summoned to Salem, he was quick to let his “extensive” dealing with witchcraft be known. Though he is more a man of God than Parris, he is not without his faults, and his faults will prove fatal.
Puritan society came down hard on lawbreakers and held to strict traditions set on the interpretations of the bible by the Magistrates. Some may argue that Hester was “let off the hook” because, in Puritanical law, anyone who committed adultery would have been put to death (The Book of the General Lawes and Libertyes Concerning the Inhabitants of the Massachusetts…pg.8). Either way, members of the society in The Scarlet Letter vehemently followed laws that may have impeded on their free will out of the fear of punishment, loss of status socially and spiritually, and in order to preserve tradition. Mainly, Puritans obeyed oppressive laws because, like most people, they wanted to avoid punishment, especially in Puritan society because most of those punishments consisted of death. People in Hester Prynne’s society were scared for their lives and some couldn’t even trust their families not to turn them in for an offence.
Another tone that could see was guilt. Soto knew he did something wrong but just didn’t want to admit it. “Was it God?” When he used the quote, he was thinking he was going to hell for his wrong doings. The last rhetorical device used in Gary Soto’s narrative is imagery. “The slop was sweet and gold colored in the afternoon sun.” Gary Soto’s words are so descriptive hat you can imagine yourself there with him.
Sykes got what he had coming to him. After tormenting Delia with the snake and his secret hope for it to accidentally get out and bite her turns around on him. This story is a parallel to the story of Adam and Eve at the garden of Eden. Sykes is Adam and Delia is Eve. When at the tree in the biblical story Eve is eating all the fruits and gaining knowledge and when Delia is standing at the chinaberry tree at the end of the story she also is gaining
Mr. Utterson explains quite often, “I incline to Cain’s heresy,” he used to say quaintly: ‘“I let my brother go to the devil in his own way,”’ By referring to the tale in the Bible of Cain and Able, the reader can easily understand Mr. Utterson for who he really is. The second allusion describes the relationship of Dr. Lanyon and Dr. Jekyll. Dr. Lanyon explains to Mr. Utterson, “such unscientific balderdash,” added the doctor… “would have estranged Damon and Pythias.” He refers to the
However much we may want others to be transparent, it is impossible because everyone wears a veil. In this case the veil is a symbol for hidden guilt. There is a reality of personal evil and the veil stands in for man’s hypocrisy. Mr. Hooper says, “if I cover it for secret sin, what mortal might not do the same?” Mr. Hooper believed that everyone had secret sin and should thus wear a veil. Mr. Hooper may be said to be a moral prophet who shows by example the reality of men.
These include moral evil, natural evil; such as floods, disease, hurricanes, fires and earthquakes. Some Christians believe many causes for this but one main opinion and belief is that there is evil in the world because of the Devil. The devil is believed to be the enemy of God and tries to make humanity turn away from goodness. According to early Christian doctrine, the Devil was created good, but was jealous of God and decided to fight against God instead of being obedient. For example in the creation story in Genesis, Adam and Eve were tempted to do wrong by a serpent, some people believe that this was the Devil in disguise.
If we choose the path to evil then evil will consume us in our lives. We are made in Gods image but left to endure the temptation of evil and the tricks the devil has in store for us to test our faith and make us question our beliefs. We see some people as perfect and others as corrupt without really knowing what is inside a person’s soul. Either because of the way they perceive themselves to the world or because of the actions that we see ourselves. We are all guilty at one point or another of looking at the exterior of people and labeling them as what they appear to be from the outside looking in.