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- Judy Jones
- "Father and Mother wont be here."
- Edward Taylor
- The Preface to God's Determinations
- Bernard Malamud
- The First Seven Years
- grace, plainness, divine mission
- puritan values
- lucid
- able to see or speak clearly
- Felicia
- "Will she be home late?"
- paradox
- self contradiction that revels a kind of truth
- rationalization
- the proccess of convincing ourselves
- fall
- season representing maturity
- fear
- puritan teaching method
- summer
- season representing growth
- Jonathan Edwards
- Sarah Pierrepont
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Winter Dreams
- Sobel
- "Who cares for your wages?"
- belief that the bible is the sole source of gods law, belief in original sin, predestination
- Puritan Doctrine
- William Bradford
- Of Plymouth Plantation
- T.S. Eliot
- The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
- Carl Sandburg
- Prayers of Steel
- Jonathan Edwards
- Personal Narrative
- Robert Frost
- The Road Not Taken
- William Byrd
- The History of the Dividing Line
- Carl Sandburg
- Chicago
- Dexter Green
- "I think I'll quit"
- religion, morality, education
- focus of puritan education
- Bernard Malamud
- "I try to see the Jew as a universal man."
- materialism, mans inhumanity to man, we are our brother's keeper
- 3 characteristics of modern literature
- John Steinbeck
- Flight
- Jonathan Edwards
- "I made seeking my salvation the main business of my life..."
- Stephen Vincent Benet
- We Aren't Superstitious
- religion and opportunity
- two reasons why people came to America
- winter
- season representing death
- Holocaust
- historical matter discussed in Winter Night
- conceit
- extended metaphor that elaborately compares two strikingly different things
- social pretentions
- the want to be with that crowd but does not have the things (money) to fit in
- spring
- season representing birth or rebirth
- Jonathan Edwards
- Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
- church and work
- two things the Puritan life consisted of
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- "For the true scholar, the past instructs, and the future invites."
- Manifest Destiny
- belief that America should own everything from the Atlantic to the Pacific
- theocracy
- government by religion
- prose
- everyday language
- epigraph
- a quotation or motto at the beginning of a chapter, book, short story, or poem that makes some point about the work
- tabula rasa
- the idea that we all start with a blank slate
- Mary
- "Sh; not so loud; he'll hear you,"
- John Smith
- Before the End of Summer
- Kay Boyle
- Winter Night
- Thomas Jefferson
- "We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal..."
- Carl Sandburg
- Grass
- Carl Sandburg
- The Road and the End
- angst
- another word for worry
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- "Do your thing, and I shall know you."
- Edward Taylor
- Huswifery
- Robert Frost
- The Death of a Hired Man
- John Updike
- The Lucid Eye in Silver Town