Thursday, November 5, 2009

Blog #6- Young Goodman Brown

"Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne is about Brown a young guy who goes on a journey thru the forest. He is referred to as Goodman but his actions in the beginning of the story are anything but. He leaves faith his wife when she doesn't want him to. theres talk of Indians, witches, and the devil. In the forest he encounters a man who leads him to a witch meeting the people he knows from salem village where he is from. he says "laughing like demons" the people he hears around him. in the beginning he has faith literally and also in mind hes a young guy, ready to explore. after the forest though he got exposed to many things and basically his innocent broke bubble broke and he became gloomy and never the same because he didn't recover from what he witnessed.

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