Sinners Like Me

very outgoing seven-year-old. Unbeknownst to Pearl, her father is Reverend Dimmesdale, with whom her mother had an affair. One day, Pearl is walking with Hester in the forest. She proceeds to tell her mother a story she heard about the Devil. Tell me how he haunts this forest, carrying a big, heavy book, with iron clasps. Tell how this ugly Black Man offers his book and an iron pen to everyone who meets him here among the trees. Tell how they write their names with their own blood, and then he sets

Mr. Martin English 3P/Per 3 21 October 2014 Human Nature “The wrath of God is like great waters that are dammed for the present; they increase more and more, and rise higher and higher, till an outlet is given; and the longer the stream is stopped, the more rapid and mighty is its course, when once it is let loose” (Edwards 47). This famous quote was written by the Puritan Jonathan Edwards, who wrote the book, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.” This quote portrays his views about human nature

frustrate me to no end because they didn’t want to swim the entire time. They wanted to lay out with their towels and lay on the cement and get tans.             My thinking was “A tan is an annoying waste of time if you are born with a perfect color of skin. They would smile and tell me how lucky I was to be a bit darker, then roll over to make sure their tan would be even.  I did not want to go in the pool by myself.             One summer afternoon, though, it was just my friend Terry and me. We had

The author Dante experienced Hell, Purgatory, and finally, Heaven, to meet God. “Before me, there was nothing created except the eternal ones, and I endure eternally. Abandon all hope, you who enter (C3, 7-9).” Dante reads the lettering at the gates of hell. Inside the Inferno, Dante wrote every sin down, including gluttony, lust, violence, heresy, blasphemy, and fraudulent, etc. each layer of Hell was like an execution ground, and the souls were suffering in mentally and physically in commitment

with Abigail, him not trusting himself, being born a sinner. These things can make him a tragic hero because these are errors and sufferings he does in the book. John Proctor is just a really tempered guy in the book. Now when it comes down to John Proctor’s weaknesses he tries not to show it, but you can tell those are his weaknesses. Like for him being a sinner is one of weakness because in the book it say’s, “He is a sinner, a sinner not only against the moral fashion of the time, but against

Buchi Emecheta’s Second Class Citizen, use language of Christian rhetoric to simultaneously cast their characters and themselves as sinners and the

were really their intentions? Many accounts show the Puritans as good-natured people but some believe that the Puritans were manipulative and deceiving. Anne Bradstreet’s poem “ Upon the Burning of Our House” and Pastor Jonathan Edwards’s sermon, “ Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” are both Puritan influenced bodies of works,however contradictory tactics are used to lead non-believers to God. For instance, Anne Bradstreet introduces a woman who was abruptly awaken from her sleep, with her home

Parables Essay: The Prodigal Son Easily one of most recognizable parables in the Bible, the parable of the prodigal son serves as an allegory for God’s unconditional love and mercy for sinners under the guise of a story about a son’s loss and redemption. To provide context about how parables are intended to work, this essay will begin on how parables function on two levels. On the surface, they are just short and linear narratives. However, upon a closer reading there is a deeper meaning behind

hence infer that God is unrighteous as he likes to take vengeance? This was the complaint of the sinners in Ezekiel’s days and is quite often heard from the lips of many even today. Quite often at a funeral service we hear that the death of saints is precious in God’s sight. Their death is to Him an event of deep interest. But the sinner’s death is not so. Here is death in which God has no pleasure. We are now to consider why.

individual must attend a church. Religion intrigued me because it was strict and how it plays a major role in all characters’ lives. Likewise, similar to Hinduism which is my religion where divorce is not seen as respected things to do as well as partying and drinking. Most of the characters are connected into Pentecostal religion, even if they don’t follow every rule and regulation of that belief. A word “Sinner” (69) was very interesting because a sinner in this book implies to the soul who is in the