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Blogger: American Literature Blog - Manage Posts: "Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in Salem Massachucettes. He was born a puritan, and came from a long long line of puritans. The reason for the w in Nathaniels name was to distance himself from Judge Hathorne. Nathaniel Hawwthorne is related to Hathorne(the judge from the salem witch trials). It is clear to me that he was born into something he wanted no part of, and he disagreed with his families past, and perhaps the puritan religion. You can't blame him for that either. He might have just been a person who came to their senses, and thought that puritanism was just silly, and he wanted to distance himself from all aspects of their life. I think that there are still things in our society today that can relate to puritanism. Something on a personal level for most of the sophmores at Whitney Young would be the sex ed teacher from PE also known as the "abstinance lady." She didn't try to scare us away from sex, but she focused on all of the consequences and showed us some pretty disturbing footage. This makes me think about Puratinism because of all the fear they tried to instill in every day life.