John Goodman

"Youthful Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne and "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" by Flannery O 'Connor both have characters who permit their lives to be changed by the risk of malice. An alternate route taken wreaks devastation on the family in "A Good Man is Hard to Find" though, the wrong way taken in "Youthful Goodman Brown" leads Brown to lose hope. Chestnut and the Grandmother have distinctive states of mind and take separate methodologies toward wickedness. On the other hand, they both in…

looked upon the earth and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth” (KJV). Consequently, the pull that seems to be within humankind, offers a base for the works of writers such as Nathaniel Hawthorne’s, “Young Goodman Brown” and Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery.” In considering the theme, the idea evident in literary writings, upon which Hawthorne based his piece, one may find themselves seeing…

How this character appears varies from story to story. Some show the Devil as a red man with horns, others as a normal person.“Young Goodman Brown”, which portrays the Devil as the later, is about how everyone is sinful, while “The Man in the Black Suit”, which portrays the Devil as more of the former, is about how the Devil comes for us all. While both “Young Goodman Brown” and “The Man in the Black Suit” show the danger of Devil like figures, they both have different risks involved,…

It all starts out dark…so dark that I couldn’t tell if my eyes are open or even closed. Before the sun comes up, it is so peaceful and quiet that I would be able to hear a pin drop from afar. This is just the start of a long sit in the woods to try and harvest a deer. Sitting in a tree stand for hours at a time with nothing but myself and the nature around me just waiting for a single moment to shoot my shot at a deer. As time goes by I begin to wonder if today is going to be my lucky day or not…

claims of mankind slipped farther from him. Deep in the forest, a call was sounding, and as often as he heard this call, mysteriously thrilling and luring, he felt compelled to turn his back upon the fire and the beaten earth around it… the love for John Thornton drew him back to the fire again.: This compelling passage significantly impacts the perspective of the story. This quote from the story takes place after Thornton rescues Buck from Hal’s mistreatment with the club. This quotation is…

Young Goodman Brown decides to go in to the woods because it seems that he has an important errand to run. Brown has been married to his wife, Faith for three months now but leaves her at the house for his journey. His wife seems to be very concerned for Brown as she cried, “Pr’y thee, put off your journey until sunrise, and sleep in your own bed tonight. A lone woman is troubled with such dreams and such thoughts, that she’s afeard of herself, sometimes.” Brown assures to his wife that he will…

1. (a) The Devil offers Tom Walker Kidd the pirate’s booty. (b) Tom first refused because he wanted to talk with his wife about it first. 2. (a) Tom’s wife disappears in the forest and later on Tom finds her apron with a heart and a liver in it. (b) You can learn Tom did not care for his wife and was very much pleased with the loss of his wife. 3. (a) Tom agrees to become an usher for the Devil if he got Kidd the pirate’s booty. (b) As the story progress, Tom starts to go to church and carries…

In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown”, the protagonist Goodman Brown stumbles upon evil incarnate, the Devil himself. Throughout his journey in the forest with the devil, Young Goodman Brown had discovered a disheartening truth about his fellow townspeople. This truth would forever change Young Goodman Brown’s (and the audience’s) perspective of others. To begin with, Young Goodman Brown discovers the devil in the forest just outside of the town of Salem. However, even though the devil…

The “Innocent” Young Goodman Brown “Innocence is a virtue,” they said but is it always? In the case of Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown,” the protagonist’s innocence may not be a virtue because it gets him into a difficult situation. Young Goodman Brown lives in Salem during the 1600’s, a time period where religion was a prevalent aspect of life. He leaves his wife, Faith, in the afternoon to follow the traveller into the forest to their meeting. On his journey to the forest, he discovers the…

Along with “Fences”, many other texts also show manipulation occurring from grudges, revenge and feuds. In the short story “The Interlopers” by Saki, two characters, Ulrich and Georg had bitterness over the judgement of a piece of forest land in the Carpathians and who it had belonged too. One evening, the two men had met in the forest in a treacherous storm and a huge tree had feel upon them and crushed them. While being stuck, they both debated on how both their men would find them first, save…