Nathan Hale: A Tragic Hero

9) Share your thoughts on why the author never has Nathan Price narrate directly. Everything you know about Nathan must be derived from what others said about him. Consider why Kingsolver chose to omit Nathan’s narration.

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In the small town of Coventry, Connecticut on June 6, 1755, Nathan Hale was born, to devout Puritans, Deacon Richard Hale and Elizabeth Strong Hale. Hale was the sixth of twelve children. The Hale’s had 9 boys and 3 girls. Hale’s parents were concerned that he wouldn’t survive his first year, like the two children before Hale (Lough 8). Even though he was a sickly small child, with weak lungs he did not let that stop him from loving the outdoors (Lough). As Hale got older, he became stronger. Sadly Hale’s mother Elizabeth died when he was 12 shortly after giving birth to her 12th child (Tracy 16). It is thought that Hale’s father Richard remarried a wealthy widow, Abigail Cobb Adams, 2 years after Elizabeth’s death, who

Nathan Price’s function in The Poisonwood Bible is not only to present the situation of being in the Congo to his family but also to show what happens when a foreign policy, such as religion, is introduced to a place that has never heard of it. In addition, Nathan is generally a static character in novel because throughout the book we see his ideas and actions remain generally the same. Nathan’s motivation for going to the Congo is what drives him until the moment he dies. He was made stubborn and determined because he represents the political domination of foreign lands and the role of men in that time period. Nathans actions in the novel can compare to the actions that the U.S. has done and how men

One of the horrendous events presented in this memoir is when Mrs.Schachter was beaten. Mrs.Schachter lost her husband and her two older sons when they were accidently were deported. After losing her family she began to lose her mind she began to moan and ask questions of why she was separated from her family. Finally Mrs.Schachter started yelling “Fire! I see a fire! I see a fire!”(ch.2 pg.24) everyone grew tired of this and began to beat her senseless until she kept quite.

Nathan Hale was born was born in Coventry, Conn., June 6, 1755. His mother was Elizabeth Strong, and his father was Richard Hale. Nathan had one brother, and his name was Enoch Hale. When he was 14 he enrolled at Yale University in Connecticut. While at Yale, he became close friends with Benjamin Tallmadge, a Yale student who later became George Washington’s head of intelligence during the Revolutionary War. Nathan graduated from Yale (with honors) ,and became a school teacher in New London. When the war began, he joined the Connecticut militia and became the first sergeant. In 1776, he became a captain in the Continental Army’s 7th Connecticut Regiment.In August/September of 1776, during the Battle of Brooklyn Heights, Hale

Sofia later learned the hanging man’s name, Nathan Hale, and his occupation, an American spy gathering intel on the British. Nathan Hale’s death had a lasting impact on poor Sofia. After the events, she constantly continued thinking of how Nathan Hale, and thousand of other young patriots gave their live, while she did nothing. According to, Sophia's War, it states, ¨ Surely, if Mr. Paulding could expose himself to so much danger on behalf of our country, if William could give his life, if Nathan Hale could give his, if I must witness British officers dance upon our graves, how dare I do nothing?” As you can see, Nathan Hale's hanging had a lasting impact on Sofia.

It’s hard to pinpoint which events, what people, and how exactly they influenced Military Intelligence to be what it is today, but for America there is little doubt that CPT Nathan Hale had an impact. CPT Nathan Hale was one of the first spies during the Revolutionary War. He went behind enemy lines to provide intelligence directly to George Washington. It ultimately cost him his life, rumor has it he was sold out by a family member. However this helped shaped how intelligence was conducted relating to spies.

No longer believing that Abigail and her crew were correct, Hale finally opens his eyes to the new possibility that those who confessed did it for the sake of not being hung. Hale sees the honesty in Procter

Furthermore, when the character Elizabeth Proctor is conversing with her husband John Proctor, who had an affair with Abigail, she alludes to the fact that Abigail seems to have gained credibility in the court on matters relating to accusing people of witchcraft, “Abigail brings the other girls into the court, and where she walks the crowd will part like the sea of Israel” (50). In this quote Abigail is being compared to Moses when he needed to cross the Red Sea, and so God parted the sea for him and his Israelite followers. Abigail’s traits of being able to lead a whole group through court and have them believe all of her false accounts of witnessing witchcraft is revealed and readers can soon infer that she is able to dissemble her truthfulness with falsities that end up causing lives to come to an abrupt end. This is significant because it tells us that in Miller’s development of Abigail he uses a Biblical allusion in order to get the point across that Abigail is now powerful and trustworthy in the court, especially with other girls following her in her

In the summer of 2006 Nathan Nicholson drove from his apartment in Eugene Oregon to a federal prison two hours away in Sheridan to visit his father, Harold James Nicholson, the highest-ranking CIA officer to be convicted of spying, and the only person to be convicted twice of espionage by the US government. While he drove Nathan had time to reflect upon a long lost dream. Nathan had aspirations of joining the Army like his father, and becoming a confident Army Ranger. Instead he was 22-year-old Army washout who failed Ranger training and left the military without ever stepping onto a battlefield. After failing Ranger indoctrination training, Nathan was assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. While making a routine jump, his military career collapsed in the blink of an eye. Nathan fractured two bones above his tailbone and destroyed the bones in his shins. After being medically discarded from the Army, Nathan began studying drafting at a community college and worked at a Pizza Hut in

Abigail Williams was known to be a good person in the town of Salem. But what the people cannot see is that she was really a cold hearted woman who only wanted all the attention on her. Abigail hid her flaws of lust, mendacity, and jealousy. She was the servant of John Proctor and his wife Elizabeth Proctor. She was supposed to be a godly woman. To the people of the town she was known to be just a child but she hid a lot more.

As Hale entered the play in the beginning his reputation, judgments, and personal confidence were all based on close study of the bible and other scholarly works. Over the course of the difficult and emotional events that he witnessed, Hale began to realize that answers to many of life's most difficult questions cannot be found in a black and white text. In this way we saw Hale transform from a strict bibliocentric person into a man who sought to understand circumstances, feelings, and potential consequences as a source for answers to life’s

Twenty people died from the manipulation and threatening of a seventeen year old girl, Abigail Williams. She committed adultery with John Proctor, a man of prestige and honor. His wife fired her for this and Abby decided to get

A possible theme for Oedipus the King by Sophocles is that one’s blindness can hide the inevitability that is his destiny. Oedipus is in this situation. He struggles to escape his fate: killing his father and marrying his mother and believes he is successful. Sophocles believes that the gpds control one’s destiny and the inevitability that a person will do what is destined despite there hero’s intentions.Oedipus represent the standards of a true tragic hero: he is well known, basically good, his punishment is out of proportion compared to his crime, the audience at some point feels sorrow and pity for him, and Oedipus has a tragic flaw. During the whole story Oedipus thinks that he may be able to change his fate a live life how he wants but he falls to that which is his destiny.For these reason Oedipus is truly an example of a tragic hero and is unable to avoid his tragic fate.