CLASS 9
THE LAST LEAF
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Ambition
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Pessimism
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Friendship
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Self-sacrifice
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Detailed explanation-1: -What is the theme of the story “The Ambitious Guest"? Though the stark New England setting is typical of Hawthorne’s stories, the overall theme of “The Ambitious Guest” is somewhat unusual for him, focusing as it does on man’s impotence in the face of the randomness of nature’s power.
Detailed explanation-2: -The story, about a family struggling through a storm and its efforts to survive the night, is based on the true story of the Willey Family and its hired help who died in an avalanche in 1826. Hawthorne, however, focuses his narrative on what happens before the avalanche, and the theme of lost ambitions.
Detailed explanation-3: -Nestled in the Notch of the White Hills, one family invites strangers into their home; it’s the only safe haven around. They live simply in their mountainside cottage, the setting for Nathaniel Hawthorne’s ‘’The Ambitious Guest.
Detailed explanation-4: -’The Ambitious Guest’ has four main characters that we will be focusing on today. They are: the stranger, the father, the eldest daughter and the grandmother.