Identify the character: This person seeks revenge for a wron…

Identify the character: This person seeks revenge for a wrong and still relives the scene fifty years later. He did not want to take the life of the man who has insulted his family, but his society’s code of honor demanded action. On his deathbed, he remembers the details of the murder from fifty years ago as if they had just happened.

Identify the author: A member of the first generation of Ame…

Identify the author: A member of the first generation of Americans to grow up without thinking of themselves as colonists. Spent much time in Europe, admired past legends, lacked interest in issues of his day. First internationally-known American writer. His sketches and essays were early examples of the short story that American writers would perfect. Two of his stories are much loved and well-known today.

Identify the speaker: “Neither party expected for war the ma…

Identify the speaker: “Neither party expected for war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes his aid against the other. . . .The prayers of both could not be answered—that of neither has been answered fully.”

Give the title for the quote:  In the woods, we return to re…

Give the title for the quote:  In the woods, we return to reason and faith. there I feel that nothing can befal me in life, –no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes,), which nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground, –my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space,–all mean egoism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball. I am nothing. I see all. The currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.