Catharine Garbo
Mr. Salsich
8 English
12 May 2009


What can you find?:
An essay about the theme of a story and how it relates to y life.


(TS) The theme of a story can come to you or it can hide like a shy person. (SD) For the theme of the story The Great Stone Face by Nathaniel Hawthorne, to me is don’t look to far for something, when it could be right in front of your eyes. (CM) Hawthorne could be trying to tell the reader that some of the time, you look to far, or you aren’t looking in the right place. (CM) Also, just as the author quotes, “And you are disappointed” When you don’t find something you are looking for. (CM) When the author says this he is telling us that if you don’t find something, don’t be disappointed. (SD) Another theme that I found is hope. (CM) If you hope for something, it will come to you, just like when Ernest hoped, he found the Great Stone Face. (CM) Another thing the author could be trying to get past could be that hope is all you need. (CS) The two theme’s that I found the author is trying to get across, would be hope for things that you want to find, and don’t look to far, when it could be right in front of your eyes.




(TS) This story reminds me of someone I have met this year. (SD) Mss. Perkins is someone I met at my Assessment sight, Mary Elizabeth Nursing Home. (CM) In this story, Ernest finds out about the history that the Great Stone Face Holds, and Mss. Perkins re-writes, pages of history. (CM) She knows a lot about the past history, just like Ernest did about the Great Stone Face. (SD) Just like Ernest in the story, I learned a lot about what Mss. Perkins was writing, about. (CM) I learned how differently they wrote, and what the difference is today. (CM) Just like Ernest did, Mss. Perkins knows a lot about history. (CS) This story brings me back to my volunteering and all of the stories, and history, the residents had to tell me.