My Kinsman, Major Molineux

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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My Kinsman, Major Molineux

Yes, Robin is shrewd. In his own mind, he thinks that he is shrewd. However, the narrator gives us ample evidence to declare that Robin is not a shrewd youth at all. He is naïve and takes things at...

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My Kinsman, Major Molineux

Most critics assume that the reason the Major is disgraced by the end of the story is that he is an officer in the British army during a time when many people in Massachusetts were beginning to...

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My Kinsman, Major Molineux

The author provides some important background information. He writes that the story takes place some hundred years earlier (it was published in 1832), when governors were appointed by the English...

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My Kinsman, Major Molineux

In the story, "My Kinsman, Major Molineaux," by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the plot is about a young man named Robin who has just come to Salem. He is searching for his kinsmen, Major Molineux. The people...

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My Kinsman, Major Molineux

"My Kinsman, Major Molineux" by Nathaniel Hawthorne follows a young man named Robin who arrives in a New England town seeking his relative, Major Molineux. The primary conflict revolves around...

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