Possible answer 1: Don’t agree. It depends. Sometimes great achievements can be made as long as you can maintain consistent.
Possible answer 2: To some extend, I agree with him. We must be wise enough to judge what is worth insisting. But it doesn’t mean that people should give up consistency. What you must do is all that concerns you, not what the people think.
4.What is agreement of one’s actions?Why is it important for people?
There will be an agreement in whatever variety of actions, so they be each honest and natural in there hour. For of one will, the actions will be harmonious, however I like the theme.
Your genuine action will explain itself and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformaty explains nothing. Be it how it will, do right now. Always scorns appearances and you always may.

Unit 4 Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter
1.Why is the prison the setting of Chapter 1 ?
No matter how optimistic the founders of new colonies may be, they are quick to establish a prison and a cemetery in their “Utopia,” for they know that misbehavior, evil, and death are unavoidable.
This belief fits into the larger Puritan doctrine, which puts heavy emphasis on the idea of original sin—the notion that all people are born sinners because of the initial transgressions of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. he is therefore using the prison building to represent the crime and the punishment which are aspect of civilized life
What is the implication of the description of the roses?
The rosebush symbolizes the ability of nature to endure and outlast man's activities.
The narrator suggests that roses offer a reminder of Nature's kindness to the condemned; for his tale, he says, it will provide either a “sweet moral blossom” or else some relief in the face of unrelenting sorrow and gloom.

2.Describe the appearance of Hester Prynne and the attitude of the people towards her.
The second paragraph on page 30.
The crowd in front of the jail is a mixture of men and women, all maintaining severe looks of disapproval.
Several of the women begin to discuss Hester Prynne, and they soon vow that Hester would not have received such a light sentence for her crime if they had been the judges.
One woman, the ugliest of the group, goes so far as to advocate death for Hester.

3.What has happened to Hester?
As a young woman, Hester married an elderly scholar, Chillingworth, who sent her ahead to America to live.
While waiting for him, she had an affair with a Puritan minister named Dimmesdale, after which she gave birth to Pearl.
The scarlet letter is her punishment for her sin and her secrecy.
Why does she make the embroidery of the letter A so elaborate?
It seems to declare that she is proud, rather than ashamed, of her sin.
In reality, however, Hester simply accepts the “sin” and its symbol as part of herself, just as she accepts her child.
And although she can hardly believe her present “realities,” she takes them as they are rather than resisting them or trying to atone for them.
How does this tell us about her character?
Throughout The Scarlet Letter Hester is portrayed as an intelligent, capable. It is the extraordinary circumstances shaping her that make her such an important figure.

Unit 7 19th Century American Poets
1. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(1) I Shot an Arrow…
1. Why did the speaker lose sight of his arrow and song? 
The arrow flies too swiftly and too far away to be seen by the speaker; whereas the song is naturally invisible.

2. In what circumstances did he find them again?
He finds them unexpectedly years later from the trunk of a tree and the heart of a friend.

3. What do arrow and song stand for in this poem? 
The images of arrow and song here may stand for friendship.

(2) A Psalm of Life 
1. What kind of person is the speaker of this poem? 
The speaker is a man of action, always optimistic and cheerful, trying to achieve as much as possible in the short span of life.

2. According to the poem, how should our lives be led to overcome the fact that each day brings us nearer to death?
We should work harder and live happier. 

3. Interpret the metaphor of "Footprints on the sand of time" (line 28).
The metaphor refers to human deeds in real life.

2. Walt Whitman
(1)One's Self I Sing 
1. What is the significance of singing about one's self?
It is an exaltation of the individual spirit, which is typical of American people.
2. What is the difference between physiology and physiognomy?