Extra Credit Questions

[David Lockmiller]

(10-07-2020 03:57 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  When I put up the question I was thinking someone would guess Walt Whitman, and indeed that happened. All the guesses are very good, and congratulations to Anita as it is Nathaniel Hawthorne. Anita, from the beginning you were on the right track as you had figured it was an author.

Kudos, Anita!

When the war erupted in 1861, Hawthorne sided with the Union but admitted in a letter to a friend that “I don’t quite understand what we are fighting for.” In February 1862, he was still baffled. “It would be too great an absurdity,” he wrote in another letter, “to spend all our Northern strength, for the next generation, in holding on to a people who insist on being let loose.”