Find other paragraphs arranged in this way. (See pages 35, 36.)
What is the topic of the second paragraph?
Can you divide the paragraph filling the middle of page 8? Where?
What is the relation between the first sentence and the last in the paragraph at the bottom of page 11? Give the words that join the sentences of the paragraph together.
In the paragraph beginning on page 13, what is the purpose of the first two sentences?
On page 14, does it seem to you that Hawthorne had forgotten the Old Manse enough so that it could be called a [197] digression? or do you think that the delightful, rambling character of the essay permits it? Can you divide this paragraph on pages 14 and 15? Where?
What figure at the bottom of page 15? Is it the custom to use a capital letter in such a case? Has the paragraph in which the figure occurs unity? Where could you divide it? Give the topic of both new paragraphs.
Of the paragraph on pages 16 and 17, what is the relation of the last three sentences to the topic?
What comment would you make upon the last sentence of the paragraph ending at the top of page 25?
At the opening of the paragraph beginning on page 29, do you like the figure? Trace the relation between the first and second sentences; between the second and the third. Could this paragraph be divided?