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CHAPTER 1- The Prison-Door- I found this one page introductory chapter to be very dramatic as it explained the history of the colony by telling the history of the prison-door. From the looks of this chapter, this story will probably be dragged out as much as pos ....

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.... quote “as effectual an agent, in the promotion of good citizenship as ever was the guillotine among the terrorists of France,” (Page 52, pink highlight). Instead of using the pillory, which would lock a person's head and hands together where they could not move and be forced to not be able to show their humiliation. “No outrage more flagrant to forbid the culprit to hide his face from shame,” is in Hawthorne's commentary on page 53. Hawthorne's commentary appears twice on this page (about more than one topic) and you can see them in my highlighted sections. What really got to me was the second highlighted section on that page where Hawthorn ....