Question

Read The Wages of Sin literary analysis. Match each example from the essay with the part of the literary analysis that the example fulfills.
Hook
Thesis
Topic Sentence
Concrete Detail
Commentary
Transition
Lead-In
Clincher
Summary
Parenthetical Citation

A.

Still, wages of betrayal are more heinous than life.
B.
Perhaps the deeper cause of the tragedy lies in fact that neither Giovanni nor Rappaccini love or trust Beatrice more than his ideology.
C.
Trust is like a mirror; once it has been shattered, nothing ever looks quite the same.

Answer 1

D.
As she dies from the antidote, she charges Giovanni with her death saying, "Farewell, Giovanni. Thy words of hatred are like lead within my heart...Oh, was there from the first not more poison in thy nature than in mine?" (420)
E.
She turns from the poison with which her father nourished and sustained her and accepts the antidote which Giovanni, her lover offers her.
F.
(399)
G.
So Giovanni, like Rappaccini, is betrayed by this illusive faith in an intellectual human construct.
H.
In "Rappaccini's Daughter," Hawthorne portrays the effects of betrayal of trust in order to demonstrate that all in this world is untrustworthy and death is the only certainty as prescribed in penalty for man's betrayal of God.
I.
Rappaccini is confronted with his treachery by Beatrice in her dying moments when she asks,
J.
This story goes beyond mere tragedy, however.