Monday, October 27, 2008

Young Goodman Brown

Ernestine Hunter
Young Goodman Brown
Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804-1864
Reading this short story about Young Goodman Brown i was aware that its a spiritual reading which the narrator connect to the characters.Young Goodman Brown indicates the importance of faith and the belief in god .It also inform the reader that faith is considered to be his wife.Reading how much faith keeps him going it also informs the reader about his wife absence's and death.Young Goodman Brown justified how the present and past have an evil purpose .Reading this piece of writing i was aware that he take life for granted and misses his wife and how he still is living in his past .Goodman also travel back into time and explains how his father journey plays a role in his living today .He Points out and relate diffrent features such as the wind and forest to faith and his wife.This takes place in salem village,it also explains the relationship between both goodman and the minster who he call's the old man .Its seems that the forest also play a huge role becuase he also indicate how his father journey took place thier .The storie also intervien with the devil and how he feelpeople from his society was attending some type of mass and at the end its not quite sure if it was reality or a terrible nightmare that goodman faced .

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