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A 3 page paper which examines the theme in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story My Kinsman, Major Molineux. No additional sources cited.
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in the 19th century when the author was alive. It is a rather simple story that details a short, but deep, journey of a young man seeking out his relative
Major Molineux. The following paper examines the theme of this particular story. My Kinsman, Major Molineux by Nathaniel Hawthorne The most obvious theme that is presented in this
particular story involves the growth and enlightenment of one young man. It is not unlike a coming of age story as a young country man seeks his future in a
larger city with the help of a relative Major Molineux. The young man is seen as innocent, and perhaps even a bit arrogant and presumptuous in his ignorance. This is
a very powerful part of the theme for it speaks of a young child who thinks he knows the world when in fact he knows very little, if anything, of
the real world. The reader sees his humble existence when the ferryman examines him and the narrator describes him: "He was a youth of barely eighteen years, evidently country-bred,
and now, as it should seem, upon his first visit to town. He was clad in a coarse gray coat, well worn...his stockings of blue yarn were the incontrovertible work
of a mother or a sister; and on his head was a three-cornered hat, which in its better days had perhaps sheltered the graver brow of the lads father" (Hawthorne).
In this one sees that he is very inexperienced and he is coming to a city to find himself, or at the very least his future with Major Molineux.
It is humorous, though also perhaps pathetic, how the young man seeks to find the major and seems to believe that everyone should immediately know who this one single man
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