Gothic Hauntings: The Scarlet Letter by https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8 en-us 2023-09-27 01:31:12 UTC 2023-10-25 07:56:05 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f9d9-2640.png P. 25 "prophetic instinct, a low whisper in my ear..." https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8/wish/2723301550 2023-09-27 15:16:28 UTC https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8/wish/2723301550 Was a bustling wharf, - but which is now burdened with decayed wooden warehouses, and exhibits few or no symptoms of commercial life pg. 6 https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8/wish/2723305424 2023-09-27 15:18:45 UTC https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8/wish/2723305424 P. 11 "the old trunk of the family tree, with so much vulnerable moss upon it..." Gloomy, dark, witchery, spooky (Lexi) https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8/wish/2723305519 2023-09-27 15:18:49 UTC https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8/wish/2723305519 https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8/wish/2723306344 2023-09-27 15:19:17 UTC https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8/wish/2723306344 https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8/wish/2723308698 "So deep a stain, indeed, that his old dry bones, in the Charter-street burial-ground..." (11).]]> 2023-09-27 15:20:43 UTC https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8/wish/2723308698 Page 25 https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8/wish/2723309407 2023-09-27 15:21:11 UTC https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8/wish/2723309407 https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8/wish/2723309982 "...dim and dusky grandeur..." (11).]]> 2023-09-27 15:21:36 UTC https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8/wish/2723309982 The room itself is cobwebbed, and dingy with old paint pg.9 (Kurt) https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8/wish/2723310285 2023-09-27 15:21:48 UTC https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8/wish/2723310285 P. 35 "Ghosts might enter here" "cold spirituality of the moon beams" (Trinity & Elizabeth) https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8/wish/2723310354 2023-09-27 15:21:51 UTC https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8/wish/2723310354 Page 35 https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8/wish/2723312700 2023-09-27 15:23:31 UTC https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8/wish/2723312700 https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8/wish/2723313461 "...persecuting spirit, and made himself so conspicuous in the martyrdom of the witches, that their blood may fairly be said to have left a stain upon him" (11).]]> 2023-09-27 15:24:06 UTC https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8/wish/2723313461 P. 8 "has grass enough growing in its chinks to show that it has not, of late days, been worn by any multitudinous resort of business" Gloomy, overgrown, lack of life (Lexi) https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8/wish/2723313509 2023-09-27 15:24:08 UTC https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8/wish/2723313509 Page 35 https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8/wish/2723313584 2023-09-27 15:24:12 UTC https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8/wish/2723313584 With it's flat unvaried surface, covered chiefly with wooden houses, few or non of which pretend to architectural beauty pg. 10 (Kurt) https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8/wish/2723313893 2023-09-27 15:24:22 UTC https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8/wish/2723313893 P.43 "my old native town will loom upon me through the haze of memory, a mist brooding over and around it; as if it were no portion of the real earth, but an overgrown village in cloud-land, with only imaginary inhabitants to people its wooden houses" (Trinity & Elizabeth https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8/wish/2723315036 2023-09-27 15:25:05 UTC https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8/wish/2723315036 "...nor does Nature adorn the human ruin with blossoms of new beauty, that have their roots and proper nutriment only in the chinks and crevices of decay, as she sows wall-flowers over the ruined fortress of Ticonderoga" (19) katharine_trostel https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8/wish/2723315167 2023-09-27 15:25:11 UTC https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8/wish/2723315167 That their blood may fairly be said to have left a stain upon him pg. 11 (Kurt) https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8/wish/2723315342 2023-09-27 15:25:16 UTC https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8/wish/2723315342 Page 43 https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8/wish/2723315510 2023-09-27 15:25:23 UTC https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8/wish/2723315510 Strong traits of their nature have intertwined themselves with mine pg. 12 (Kurt) https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8/wish/2723316458 2023-09-27 15:26:02 UTC https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8/wish/2723316458 Page 43 https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8/wish/2723316848 2023-09-27 15:26:18 UTC https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8/wish/2723316848 katharine_trostel https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8/wish/2723318415 2023-09-27 15:27:20 UTC https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8/wish/2723318415 Page 32 https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8/wish/2723318750 2023-09-27 15:27:36 UTC https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8/wish/2723318750 ... over whom his third century is creeping, clings to the spot where his successive generations have been imbedded pg. 12 (Kurt) https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8/wish/2723318777 2023-09-27 15:27:37 UTC https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8/wish/2723318777 p. 32 "Do this, said the ghost of Mr. Surveyor Pue, emphatically nodding the head that looked so imposing with its memorable wig" (Trinity & Elizabeth https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8/wish/2723319246 2023-09-27 15:27:55 UTC https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8/wish/2723319246 https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8/wish/2723320358 2023-09-27 15:28:42 UTC https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8/wish/2723320358 "It had the effect of a spell, taking her out of the ordinary relations with humanity and enclosing her in a sphere by herself" pg 39. (Emily) https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8/wish/2723321035 2023-09-27 15:29:08 UTC https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8/wish/2723321035 "My doom was on me. It was not the first time, nor the second, that I had gone away,--as it seemed, permanently,--but yet returned, like the bad half-penny; or as if Salem were for me the inevitable center of the universe" (p. 12-3) katharine_trostel https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8/wish/2723321279 KGT]]> 2023-09-27 15:29:19 UTC https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8/wish/2723321279 to see a furrowed cheek, weather beaten by half a century of storm, turn ashy pale pg. 15 (Kurt) https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8/wish/2723321570 2023-09-27 15:29:30 UTC https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8/wish/2723321570 P. 21 "after talking with Thoreau about pine-trees and Indian relics, in his hermitage at Walde; after growing fastidious by sympathy with the classic refinement of Hillard's culture; after becoming imbued with poetic sentiment at Longfellow's hearth-stone..." (Lexi) https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8/wish/2723321911 2023-09-27 15:29:44 UTC https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8/wish/2723321911 https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8/wish/2723322970 2023-09-27 15:30:27 UTC https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8/wish/2723322970 Resembles the phosphorescent glow of decaying wood pg. 16 (Kurt) https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8/wish/2723323938 2023-09-27 15:31:02 UTC https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8/wish/2723323938 From a view of its gray and broken ruins pg. 21 (Kurt) https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8/wish/2723325657 2023-09-27 15:32:00 UTC https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8/wish/2723325657 P. 25 "By an accurate measurement, each limb proved to be precisely three inches and a quarter in length" (Lexi) https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8/wish/2723326389 2023-09-27 15:32:26 UTC https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8/wish/2723326389 "And here his descendants have been born and died, and have mingled their earthy substance with the soil; until no small portion of it must necessarily be akin to the mortal frame wherewith, for a little while, I walk the streets. In part, therefore, the attachment which I speak of is the mere sensuous sympathy of dust for dust. Few of my countrymen can know what it is; nor, as frequent transplantation is perhaps better for the stock, need they consider it desirable to know" (11). katharine_trostel https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8/wish/2723327800 KGT]]> 2023-09-27 15:33:14 UTC https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8/wish/2723327800 But the past was not dead pg. 27 (Kurt) https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8/wish/2723327983 2023-09-27 15:33:19 UTC https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8/wish/2723327983 katharine_trostel https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8/wish/2723331310 2023-09-27 15:35:18 UTC https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8/wish/2723331310 https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8/wish/2723332048 2023-09-27 15:35:44 UTC https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8/wish/2723332048 "Soon, likewise, my old native town will loom upon me through the haze of memory, a mist brooding over and around it..." pg 33 (Emily) https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8/wish/2723332379 2023-09-27 15:35:57 UTC https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8/wish/2723332379 Which was buried with him but did not perish in in the grave pg. 32 (Kurt) https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8/wish/2723332397 2023-09-27 15:35:58 UTC https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8/wish/2723332397 Relieve the darkening close of a tale of human frailty and sorrow pg. 46 (Kurt) https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8/wish/2723336378 2023-09-27 15:38:21 UTC https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8/wish/2723336378 P. 28 "moonlight and sunshine, and the glow of fire-light, were just alike in my regard, and neither of them was of one whit more avail the twinkle of a tallow-candle' https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8/wish/2723340506 2023-09-27 15:40:42 UTC https://padlet.com/katharine_trostel/rcgfh9h3o0exxxg8/wish/2723340506