The Scarlet Letter: My Experience Essay -- Literary Analysis, Nathani

As a child of the age of hyper- teaching, I am usually introduced to concepts in their rawest possible form. Concepts that are streamlined so that they may glide their way elegantly into my apprehensiveness like the 2001 A lieu Odyssey union of shuttle and station, backed by strains of the lilting Blue Danube 1. Digesting Nathaniel Hawthornes ultra-dense florid Letter, therefore, felt more properly compared to a Surgeons retrieval of his Rolex from the open chest cavity of an ill-fated patient, perhaps to a score of pounding, rapid, multi-tiered baroque fugues.Yes, the ideas and connections were there, and they were fascinating and orchestrated beautifully. But I often found my head aching as I labored with the mounds of florid language and dated syntax they were buried so deep under, and often found myself m kindredg estimates as to the number of Word-A-Day calendars Hawthorne must harbour owned 2. Its tragic though, really, because it is not Hawthornes fault that his overb old has get the bane of so many high school side students existence.The times have a-changd, and along with them attention spans have decreased, and many systems for information extraction and condensation have been developed to accommodate them. Just as a surgeon presented the option of retrieving his lost wristwatch from either, A) a hinged decorate box, or B), the innards of a living human being would near likely check the box marked A with much smack and not so much rumination, a student with the option to elude the pain of actually reading Hawthorns masterpiece, choosing instead to adopt the concepts from the novel in the form of easy-to-digest Sparknotes tidbits, would likely do so 3.The battleground matter of the novel has al... ...f needs 12 and my ability to act upon it and endure uttermost lesser consequences. But the oppression is still there. However, the positives remain as well. The productive nature of the American college system can be attributed in handso me part to the Puritans value of knowledge and education. Reading The Scarlet Letter was a slog. But it never felt frivolous. The themes have become less groundbreaking and weighty but are still pertinent, and the constitution style has been greatly dulled by time, but not to the extremum of being impenetrable. If nothing else, it expanded my mental lexicon, and gave me a new understanding for why someone would ever be compelled to endeavor in so self torturous an activity as running a marathon. I felt, at the novels conclusion, a euphoria of relief akin to that described by sweat drenched long distance runners. And I lost 20 pounds to boot.