RCWW HW Pgs. 7, 23, 24, and 25

Answers for Pg. 7

1. The last time i wrote something really difficult was last year in english. The paper was my research paper on Nathaniel Hawthorne's use of Puritan New England in his works of literature.




2. The first thing that i did for my research paper was to research Hawthorne's life and read some of his works. Next, I made notecards and collected my thoughts. I went into as much detail as i could about Hawthorne to give the reader an idea of why he would use Puritanism beliefs in his works. Finally I put all of my thoughts and notes down on paper and began to type the report.


Answers for Pg. 23


1. split, lose, paused, considered, vanished, rounding, tailed, picked, follow, ran, coming, chased, glanced, choking, expected, quit, strained, pounding, sliding, trained, point, forget, aim, dive, compelled, impelled, running, improvising, running, choosing, failing, give, losing, chased, caught, stopped.

2.paused, considered, vanished, rounding, tailed, picked, to fling, split up, to point, coming, chased, glanced, choking, expected, strained, pounding, sliding, trained, compelled, impelled, running, improvising, running, choosing, failing, losing, chased, stopped.

3. "We kept running, block after block; we eept improvising, backyard after backyard, running a frantic course and choosing it simutaneosly, failing always to find small places or hard places to slow him down, and discovering always, exhilarated, dismayed, that only bare speed could save us - for he would never give up- and we were losing speed."

"He chased us throught the backyard labrynths of ten blocks before he caught us by our jackets."

Pg 24


1. [dressed] in city clothes: suit, tie, and street shoes; thin, pursuer, hero, captor, sainted, skinny, furious, redheaded, pants legs wet, cuffs full of snow, snow on his shoes and socks.


2. "You stupid kids", perfuntorily, ordinary Pittsburgh accent, normal righteous anger, usual common sense.

3. Dillard's description of the man lets me see the man as a young, redheaded, successful and upset at the kids for performing an immature act.

1. She named it "the perfect snowball". perfect white snow, perfectly spherical, and squeezed perfectly translucent so no snow remained all the way through.


2. every breathe tore my throat. This makes me think that the day was so cold that you would be short of breath just by walking outside and also how fatigued she was from running.

pg. 25

1. perfuntorily, redundant, formality, passionately, brooded, desmembered, piecemeal, Panamanian jungle, exalting.

2. she wanted to keep the chase up because she was scared, but at the same time she was having fun.