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Dr. Heidegger s Experiment

Aging Gracefully. What do you like most about being the age you are right now?What aspects of growing older are you looking forward to?What aspects of growing older are undesirable to you?Do you think youth and age should be measured by the years a person has lived or by a person's behavior and outlook?.

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Dr. Heidegger s Experiment

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    1. Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment Nathaniel Hawthorne

    2. Aging Gracefully What do you like most about being the age you are right now? What aspects of growing older are you looking forward to? What aspects of growing older are undesirable to you? Do you think youth and age should be measured by the years a person has lived or by a person’s behavior and outlook?

    3. Meet the Author Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on July 4, 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts, the site of the Salem witch trials His Puritans ancestors (William and John Hathorne) were instrumental in sentencing the accused to death Hawthorne added the “W” to his name to distance himself from them

    4. Meet the Author After college, Hawthorne isolated himself in his mother’s home to learn the craft of fiction 12 years later, he emerged to publish “Twice Told Tales” His stories portray the human heart as a place where the secrets of past sins lurk

    5. Meet the Author In 1850, Hawthorne published “The Scarlet Letter” his masterwork In 1851, he published another great novel, “The House of the Seven Gables” Gloom continued to plague him until his death in 1864

    6. Background Fountain of Youth People believed it would make them young again Ponce De Leon searched for it in Florida During the Middle Ages, alchemists sought the “elixir of life” They believed it would prolong life indefinitly Hawthorne was fascinated by the concept of immortality He wrote several stories about men who possessed the secret elixir of life

    7. Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment Four friends are invited to Heidegger’s study to participate in an unusual experiment Heidegger claims to have a vase filled with water from the fountain of youth See what happens as the four friends, three men and a woman, are given another chance at life Will they learn from past mistakes?

    8. Literary Terms Foreshadowing – a writer’s use of hints or clues to indicate events that will happen later in a story. Allegory – a work with two layers of meaning where persons, objects, and events stand for abstract qualities or ideas. An allegory has a symbolic level of meaning in addition to its literal level. Some allegories teach a moral or lesson. In “The Tortoise and the Hare,” the slow, focused actions of the tortoise are favorable to the cunning, but easily distracted hare. “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” is an example of an allegorical tale. Hawthorne’s characters are not realistic, fully developed characters. Instead they seem more like representations of ideas.

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