ENGL121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: My Kinsman, Major Molineux, Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Pay attention to: the movement of light, irony, the main character. It is a breadth of exposure on how to read critically teaches beyond simple facts. Pushes beyond surface reality to focus on the suffering or the complex aspects of the individu. Warning the life of simplistic and moral judgements. Robin, 18 years of age, brown curly hair, well-shaped features, and bright, country-bred. A stranger in a town trying to find his kinsman, trying to find a guide to take him. He is become interdependent trying to find someone to help him, guide him, show him the path and the light on where his kinsman is. When he was trying to find him and then all of the sudden found him in the streets of the riot stated that the major was tarnished, old, feathered because he relied on everyone except him.