Nathaniel Hawthorne: revised version of the "Ambitious Guest"

Ambition is perhaps one of the less understood kinds of human emotion. Ambition is oftentimes accompanied by lust, devotion and persistence

As described by the Stranger, ambition is at first only a dream that passes one’s mind but after some time, as people struggle to keep their ambition persistent, devotion turns into a desperate act until people become too attached to it and make the ambition a part of their life. The stranger seems to have already gone through the process mentioned above. To him,


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Hyunseok Lee: Well-described and summarized the story, but lack your opinion. I believe you hadn’t enough time to write about what you really wanted to talk about. Nevertheless, you should have been writing about what you’ve learned from the story and expand your thoughts, not just explaining what happened in the story. Fresh introduction with the story [Little Prince], but I expect more lengthy and concrete body and conclusion. I’m looking forward to your interesting essay about how beings get attached to each others!

Chung Yoonju: It was very nice to relate [Little prince] and Dark Romanticism short-story [The Ambitious Guest] but I didn’t get what you really meant by. It will be much better to develop your idea in the introduction and clearly deliver your main idea. Also, I have a little different idea on the point of corrupted ambition the traveler influenced. I don’t think the traveler should be accused of leading both him and the family to die in the slide. It’s true that he somewhat enlightened (?!) the family about the civilized society but still the family is the one who blindly ran out of the house listening to the sound of slide – it was very common aspect of their life. I think it will be a well-opinioned essay after finishing the last
paragraph.

Jin-Gyeong: Did the family become familiar with the city life only by listening to the strange traveler? I don’t think so. Rather than becoming familiar, I would be much better to say that they were disturbed or agitated by the corrupted ambition. However, your introduction with the famous story [The Little Prince] was so cool. Hmm, but I think it is a little bit absurd to realte this story with the [Little Prince]. Anyways good.