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One of my favourite American writers is Nathaniel Hawthorne. So was Herman Melville's, whom dedicated his major work 'Moby Dick'.
Author of 'The Scarlet Letter' and 'The House of the Seven Gables', he wrote many stories of human imagination that can be read as moral allegories. Feathertop offers a critical view of society.

Read this short version between lines and give me your opinion about humanity and appearance.

"The long cold winter was gone at last. At first the cold nights went away slowly. Then suddenly, the warm days of spring started to come. There was new life again in the earth. Things started to grow and come up. For the first time, green corn plants began to show. They pushed through the soil and could now be seen above the ground.
After the long winter months, the crows, the big black birds, were hungry. And when they saw the little green plants, they flew down to eat them. Old Mother Rigby tried to make the noisy and hungry birds go away. They made her very angry. She did not want the black birds to eat her corn. But the birds would not go away. So, early one morning, just as the sun started to rise, Mother Rigby jumped out of bed. She had a plan to stop those black birds from eating her corn..."

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