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…the previous incident, Dimmesdale takes a walk through the town. He climbs onto the scaffold and pretends to confess; though there is no one out at this time at night. Hester and Pearl, on their way home, pass Dimmesdale on the scaffold. Dimmesdale calls out to them…

…she will not give up! Unfortunately, Phoenix’s old age, the natural environment and her poverty make the journey to town a long and trying battle that she must overcome. As the story opens, Phoenix is described as “ … very old and small and she walked…

…As people grow older there usually are people in throughout life that help guide along the path to who they become as an adult. That person could be a teacher, parent, neighbor, or even the town scandal. Whoever the person might…

…with nothing but a run down home that started to decay after a period of time. She began to ignore the surrounding decay of the house and her appearance. These lies continued as she denied her father’s death, refused to pay taxes, ignores town gossip about her…

…threatening to throw her out causes her to feel insecurity because, as she is quickly finding out, she will have no place to call home. When Speedy comes back into town, she feels even more threatened by the fact that he begins to date her sister. Hopey…

…. In a small Minnesota town, home of America's oldest living Lutheran, the annual beauty pageant is underway. The contestants, are perhaps, a little more motivated to win than in real life because not long after the pageant is underway, the entrants who look like…

…Harper Lee’s 1960 novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, focuses on the lives of two young siblings, Jem and Scout Finch, as they mature in a small rural southern town. Taking place during the hard time of the depression, these two young souls are surrounded…

…In the novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Jim and Huck escape down the Mississippi river in search of freedom and adventure, and along the way encounter many different kinds of people, families, and societies. They visit different towns…

…was a very wealthy person who occasionally loaned the town money Emily had everything a child could want. This caused Emily to be very spoiled and selfish and she never knew the value of a dollar until her father left her with nothing but a run down home…

…this case, mostly from the residents of Maycomb County, but even his own sister pressures him to drop the case. The town was pressuring Atticus to not defend Tom because he was a Negro and they had thought that since Tom was black he was automatically guilty…