Toward the end of his description of life in Old England, Hawthorne places two sentences of similar structure and similar meaning side by side. He says first: “there was some shadow of an attempt of this kind in the way of celebrating the day on which the political year… began”. He then goes on to state, “the dim reflection of a remembered splendor…they had seen in proud old London” (lines 11-13). Both sentences, placed side by side, begin by noting how Puritan celebrations were, in every way, inferior to those of Old England. The words “shadow” and “reflection” have the same effect; the same purpose. They seem to convey that it was a distorted version of the original celebrations. Then both sentences go on to praise “proud old London”. Through the use of parallel structure, Hawthorne creates an immediate effect on readers, causing them to see Puritan celebrations as a distorted, confusing, and lesser version of pure celebrations in the Old World. Ultimately, Hawthorne's goal is to convince readers that Puritan culture—their customs, their traditions, their way of life—is wrong because it suppresses the joy and freedom necessary for a society to thrive. He attempts to convince them that the Puritan religion, as a whole, is overbearing and clearly unjust. Hawthorne wants his audience to follow a logical progression of causes