A sin is an immoral act considered to be a transgression against divine law.
You can sin in thoughts, your actions, and the things you say. No sin is to little or too big. No matter what you may think everyone sins. In the story “The Minister’s Black Veil”, Nathaniel Hawthorne Mr. Hooper, has a personal sin that warrants his action of wearing the veil.
In the minister black veil Mr. Hooper incites town gossip when he starts wearing a black veil covering his face. He refuses to tell anyone why he's wearing it, and the townsfolk begin to think less of his character because of it. Minister Hooper’s speech discusses many different things, but the biggest is the reason why he wears the black veil. In article 1 by Fullin, “one could also come to the conclusion that the sin that Mr. Hooper committed himself was over the temptation or a casual involvement with a female. This type of behavior would avert him from being able to open up about his sin to his fiancé and to hide his shame from the church and townsfolks. …show more content…
Hooper has his own problems for committing a sin, but that doesn’t make him any more holy than another person. Accordingly, to article 3 by West, “Reverend Mr. Hooper wore the black veil to symbolize secret sin; this veil represented how everyone has something in their heart that no one knows about. For example, people have taken into consideration that Mr. Hooper committed adultery with the young girl that died at the beginning of the story”. So when wearing the black veil Mr. Hooper, I think he feel as if his sins are hidden in a way that the parishioners may not understand nor his fiancée unless he
You can sin in thoughts, your actions, and the things you say. No sin is to little or too big. No matter what you may think everyone sins. In the story “The Minister’s Black Veil”, Nathaniel Hawthorne Mr. Hooper, has a personal sin that warrants his action of wearing the veil.
In the minister black veil Mr. Hooper incites town gossip when he starts wearing a black veil covering his face. He refuses to tell anyone why he's wearing it, and the townsfolk begin to think less of his character because of it. Minister Hooper’s speech discusses many different things, but the biggest is the reason why he wears the black veil. In article 1 by Fullin, “one could also come to the conclusion that the sin that Mr. Hooper committed himself was over the temptation or a casual involvement with a female. This type of behavior would avert him from being able to open up about his sin to his fiancé and to hide his shame from the church and townsfolks. …show more content…
Hooper has his own problems for committing a sin, but that doesn’t make him any more holy than another person. Accordingly, to article 3 by West, “Reverend Mr. Hooper wore the black veil to symbolize secret sin; this veil represented how everyone has something in their heart that no one knows about. For example, people have taken into consideration that Mr. Hooper committed adultery with the young girl that died at the beginning of the story”. So when wearing the black veil Mr. Hooper, I think he feel as if his sins are hidden in a way that the parishioners may not understand nor his fiancée unless he