Benny Goodman

Motivation Is In the Light Have you ever stumbled into a rough situation where you needed motivation and guidance to help you feel better? Emily Dickinson wrote two poems that showed the steps she took to get out of the darkness andto get into the light. Just like everyone, she was going through a low point during her life and eventually found the way to get better. Through all of the hardships that we go through, there is always a light of motivation that will help you through it all. You may…

The Winter Soldier’s horse shies away from the wind, sharp with a chill and damp that Bucky can no longer feel. The clouds gather hard upon the peaks of Sokovia, reeking of rain and worse to the vampire’s supernatural nose. A few stubborn leaves dangle from bare branches like decayed flesh clings to bone. Bucky sighs. “You coddle him,” his companion says. Bucky turns in his saddle. “That’s not what I was thinking.” Natasha snorts, a strange sound from a fellow blood drinker but that’s…

“Walking Point”, is a poem published in the Iowa Review written by Terry Hertzler. While flipping through the journal, the poem did not seem interesting at all but I decided to read it anyway. The poem is a free verse poem that consists of seven tercets. The whole first stanza focuses on describing a young child. When I first read the first stanza, I thought that the poem would be about a young boy going on a walk or an adventure given that there is a whole stanza focused on him, and that the…

story called, “Young Goodman Brown” about a man’s spiritual journey in Puritan America. A hundred and fifty-six years later Bret Easton Ellis wrote, “American Psycho” once more focusing a man’s journey, although less about his spirit and more of his psychological problems during the 1980s. Although, on the surface, these two stories do not seem similar they do share a lot of similarities, almost to the point where American Psycho could be seen as a newer version of Young Goodman Brown, just with…

wife of Young Goodman Brown is named “Faith” for a reason. It gives the reader a clue that Faith was named to represent the faith of Young Goodman Brown; such as the faith in this own life or the faith in god. For example when it states “Come, Goodman Brown, cried his fellow-traveler; this is a dull pace for the beginning of the journey. Take my staff, if you are soon weary” and “We are but a little way in the forest yet.” This quotes shows that the devil tested the faith of Young Goodman Brown,…

A breeze fluttered Perceval’s hair as he gazed in desolation at the closed drawbridge on the other side of the moat. What was he to do now? He needed that Grail to heal not only the Fisher King, but also his ill mother. Perceval pulled on the reins of his horse and brought it about-face towards the ominous forest behind him. He saw no point in raving like a madman at the deserted castle, and so, the only option Perceval saw left was to venture into the woods to look for someone who could tell…

In Ambivalence in “Young Goodman Brown”, Walter J. Paulits argues that Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Young Goodman Brown expresses more ambivalence rather than ambiguity over the decisions of Goodman Brown. Ambivalence is seen much more prominent throughout the short story because it is filled with mixed feelings and contradictory ideas. Goodman Brown is an example of how choices come with consequences, good or bad. Goodman Brown is introduced as a good and happy man, married to his wife, Faith.…

Young Goodman Brown has the potential for change, but requires an outside force such as outside influence to initiate his transformation from faith in Christianity, to Satanism. Young Goodman Brown’s potential for this transformation is evident in how he is described has having “wickedness in his heart”. “At the word, Goodman Brown stepped forth from the shadows of the trees and approached the congregation, with whom he felt a loathful brotherhood by the sympathy of all that's wicked in his…

“Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne perplexed my mind continuously throughout the story due to its complexity but I slowly began to develop my own interpretation of events as I read the text several times. In the beginning, a young man, Goodman Brown, is with his wife Faith, a character who symbolizes his Christian religion, and they are saying their goodbyes. Brown appears to be saddened by leaving his wife but makes his way to a forest that night to go on an “errand” as he states…

In “Young Goodman Brown,” the author, Nathaniel Hawthorne, expresses that “There is no good on earth; and sin is but a name. Come, devil; for to thee is this world given” (Hawthorne 8). The theme, the loss of innocence, focuses on Goodman Brown and the experiences he undergoes which inevitably changes his life for the worse. Foreshadowing is portrayed several times as the author, Nathaniel Hawthorne, states his many examples as the story continues. The author’s style focuses mainly on the…