Young Goodman Brown Summary
This story is quite confusing in the beginning because I don’t understand why Goodman is going on a journey and why does his wife, Faith, has a bad feeling about it. He even seems to have a bad feeling about it himself. Now as he starts to travel into the wood I become a little confused myself but what I did take from it was that he was with the devil and didn’t have the slightest clue. Little does he know that this trip will change his whole life.
I think he thought he was on this trip to better his spiritual journey, but instead he ends up very confused and alone. He thinks that everyone around him is the perfect Christians and he want to become more like them. He probably thinks this trip will help but he doesn’t know he is with the devil. And in the middle of the journey the devil leaves him alone and he makes a discovery on his own. He finds that the “church” people come into this dark and un heard of woods.
The reason that they come is so that they can have communion and be converted but young Goodman can’t seem to grasp the concept of them coming into the dark unsafe woods. He starts to lose hope and calls on his wife, Faith, and ,even hears her voice faintly scream back. And it turns out that he finds Faith is there with the rest of the “Christians”. They are all there worshiping the devil and being converted into evil doers. He can’t even believe that he sees his wife their along with all the other pure and innocent people he looked up to. He tries to tstop the whole ceremony and calls Faith so that she will resist the devil and all of a sudden everyone disappears in the blink of an eye. Goodman ends up back home and it seems like everything was a dream, but when he gets back everyone ignores him even after his death.
This story is representing a man who is over come by hypocrites and he doesn’t even know it until he of course catches them in the act. And I think that Faith represents his actual faith that he was in God and when he tries to save his faith he loses the popularity of his people. Sometimes when you do the right thing people won’t respect you for it. I just think the story goes to show that not all the people we give all this praise to are the perfect people.
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Tom Walker and the devil
The devil and Tom Walker is a very ironic story. The story begins with a history lesson about how a man by the name of Kidd the pirate left behind this great treasure, this treasure is taken over by the “black man” which in this case is the devil. But year’s role past and there is this man named tom who seems to be going thru a rough patch in his life. It almost seems like him in his wife need to be in the middle of a divorce, which is ironic because I don’t even think divorce was created around at this time. Any who he stubbles into the devil one day and comes across a large lump sum of riches. And we all know the trick to making a deal with the devil and riches. It’s never going to turn out fair.
Tom is a different kind of man, although he is not portrayed that way in the story. Ironically he goes home to the wife that he can’t stand and asks her what he should do. She of course says that he should sell his should to the devil so that they can be wealthy for the rest of their days. He disagrees with her purposely, anything to make her mad since he dislikes her. So she decides to take matters into her own hands. This is not the typical action for a woman in these days but she gets some confidence and decides to approach the devil. He ends up murdering her or making her disappear and no one ever hears from her again.
Tom is very pleased with what the devil did, and decides to make a closer relationship with the devil. I don’t understand the motive behind this action. I personally think that the devil purposely set this up. His plan was to kill the wife and then he knew it would bring him and tom closer. The devil proposes the whole sell your sell deal to Tom once again. At first Tom seems to fight the temptation, because the devil once him to be a slave holder. This is ironic to me because he is known as the “black man” so wouldn’t this make him African American? Anyway this slave deal doesn’t get him, but the next thing he offers is becoming something like a crook. So Tom sells his soul and starts cheating people out of their money but of course they don’t know. Times have gotten rough and they have no one else to turn to but Tom. He becomes a very wealthy man because of this but all of these riches mean nothing. His conscious begins to get haunted and he decides that he wants to become a full fledged Christian. His gut feeling tells him he should do this, but he should know that once you’ve sold your soul there is no way out.
This is different because Tom was a man who was not of superstitions but now he keeps a bible everywhere he goes. But one day not even the bible can save him. He ends up cheating the last person he can cheat and it was a poor old man who really didn’t deserve it. But some sort of evil side came out of Tom and in the blink of an eye the devil was at the door to take him to hell. I believe the moral of this story is: it doesn’t matter how many earthly riches you have it won’t do you any good in the afterlife. The whole story he and his wife were debating their souls over materialistic things. It just goes to show how much people will do for the hope of being rich
Tom is a different kind of man, although he is not portrayed that way in the story. Ironically he goes home to the wife that he can’t stand and asks her what he should do. She of course says that he should sell his should to the devil so that they can be wealthy for the rest of their days. He disagrees with her purposely, anything to make her mad since he dislikes her. So she decides to take matters into her own hands. This is not the typical action for a woman in these days but she gets some confidence and decides to approach the devil. He ends up murdering her or making her disappear and no one ever hears from her again.
Tom is very pleased with what the devil did, and decides to make a closer relationship with the devil. I don’t understand the motive behind this action. I personally think that the devil purposely set this up. His plan was to kill the wife and then he knew it would bring him and tom closer. The devil proposes the whole sell your sell deal to Tom once again. At first Tom seems to fight the temptation, because the devil once him to be a slave holder. This is ironic to me because he is known as the “black man” so wouldn’t this make him African American? Anyway this slave deal doesn’t get him, but the next thing he offers is becoming something like a crook. So Tom sells his soul and starts cheating people out of their money but of course they don’t know. Times have gotten rough and they have no one else to turn to but Tom. He becomes a very wealthy man because of this but all of these riches mean nothing. His conscious begins to get haunted and he decides that he wants to become a full fledged Christian. His gut feeling tells him he should do this, but he should know that once you’ve sold your soul there is no way out.
This is different because Tom was a man who was not of superstitions but now he keeps a bible everywhere he goes. But one day not even the bible can save him. He ends up cheating the last person he can cheat and it was a poor old man who really didn’t deserve it. But some sort of evil side came out of Tom and in the blink of an eye the devil was at the door to take him to hell. I believe the moral of this story is: it doesn’t matter how many earthly riches you have it won’t do you any good in the afterlife. The whole story he and his wife were debating their souls over materialistic things. It just goes to show how much people will do for the hope of being rich
Thursday, October 15, 2009
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Fall of the house of Usher is about a horror story. I think it was made to shake you up because it did indeed scare me. Just reading it made me feel as if I was there every step of the way and the author used good pathos because the feeling was definitely there. Don’t get me wrong I did enjoy the story it was just some nightmare to it.
The beginning of the story made you a little confused at first because you have this guy riding on a horse and stopping at a place that sounds like a night mare. It took me a minute to start really following the story plot. What I finally got from it was that there is this guy visiting this old friend of his named Roderick, and this old friend of seems to be sick. He has an illness that just seems to be insanity to me at first but it really is just the fear of his own home. It seems that his family has a history of never passing to the next generation, but he does live at home with his sister whom we later find out is his twin.
While the narrator is staying with his friend he helped to brighten his gloomy days by just spending genuine time with him. The house does tend to creep the narrator out from time to time also, but he doesn’t let it get to him that bad. The longer he says with his friend the weirder things get. His friend twin sister soon dies and he wants to bury her in the basement underground so that people won’t try to dig her up and study her. So they bury her and as time goes by things get really scary.
They are having a regular weird night at the mansion and then all of a sudden things get crazy. One night they see a strange fog coming from the bottom of the house and they don’t know hats going on. So the narrator thinks fast and tried to read Roderick a story to keep him calm so they can eventually fall asleep. Roderick is having other thoughts and starts blurting out about how his sister wasn’t dead and that she was buried alive! So the narrator of course doesn’t believe this and blows the whole thing off until his twin sister really does burst thru the door!
In the end the narrator gets out of that night mare of a place. The house ends up crumbling to the ground as soon as he leaves. I think that it is ironic that he made it out just in the nick of time. It makes me think that maybe he was the reason that the house didn’t fall apart. Maybe his friend was so urgent about sending him a letter to get him there because his positive energy would keep the house standing for a little while longer.
The beginning of the story made you a little confused at first because you have this guy riding on a horse and stopping at a place that sounds like a night mare. It took me a minute to start really following the story plot. What I finally got from it was that there is this guy visiting this old friend of his named Roderick, and this old friend of seems to be sick. He has an illness that just seems to be insanity to me at first but it really is just the fear of his own home. It seems that his family has a history of never passing to the next generation, but he does live at home with his sister whom we later find out is his twin.
While the narrator is staying with his friend he helped to brighten his gloomy days by just spending genuine time with him. The house does tend to creep the narrator out from time to time also, but he doesn’t let it get to him that bad. The longer he says with his friend the weirder things get. His friend twin sister soon dies and he wants to bury her in the basement underground so that people won’t try to dig her up and study her. So they bury her and as time goes by things get really scary.
They are having a regular weird night at the mansion and then all of a sudden things get crazy. One night they see a strange fog coming from the bottom of the house and they don’t know hats going on. So the narrator thinks fast and tried to read Roderick a story to keep him calm so they can eventually fall asleep. Roderick is having other thoughts and starts blurting out about how his sister wasn’t dead and that she was buried alive! So the narrator of course doesn’t believe this and blows the whole thing off until his twin sister really does burst thru the door!
In the end the narrator gets out of that night mare of a place. The house ends up crumbling to the ground as soon as he leaves. I think that it is ironic that he made it out just in the nick of time. It makes me think that maybe he was the reason that the house didn’t fall apart. Maybe his friend was so urgent about sending him a letter to get him there because his positive energy would keep the house standing for a little while longer.
Sunday, October 11, 2009
The Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Taylor Cole
AP- English
10-08-09
The Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
This particular story just gave you the brief over view of how hard life was for slaves. It also goes to show that just because you were a fair skinned slave doesn’t life is going to be a piece of cake. In this story we walk thru life with a fair skinned slave who from what it seemed at first had the perfect life. She soon realizes that she is a slave and life seems to go downhill from there.
After her initial slave master dies she is thrown into a situation which is out of her control. She is to live with the children in law of her old slave master and this life isn’t anywhere close to as nice as her old life. She has to adjust to a total new life of actually doing real slave work. She witnesses some of the most violent slave beatings she’s ever seen. But she indeed has to get used to this because this is the treatment slaves “deserve”.
She ends up losing her father, and she expects her mistress to let her grieve. She doesn’t understand the slave life. The simple fact of considering herself as a human being is a privilege. At any moment she can be taken away from her position in the house. She finds it very hard to live under these conditions, sometimes she might not get to eat. Luckily she had her grandmother who is a great asset to the community when it comes to food. But thru all of this she does get to encounter the evilness of the human nature of the slave master and mistress.
As she gets older other trials come her way, like her grandmother getting sold into freedom. This was a great blessing to her grandmother but in a sense it was a curse to the girl because she no longer has a source of food, nor does she have someone to run to when she needs love and understanding. And if I thought adolescence was a stretch in this day in age, than is definitely was worse for slave girls. Her becoming a woman on her own had to be a struggle. She was already a beautiful girl and her being fair skinned didn’t help. This made her master more attracted to her and this made her an easy target so that he can molest her. She had already witnessed other situations where maybe a master had took advantage of a slave girl and got her pregnant. She knows that no good will come of this but there is nothing she can do about it.
I know that this slave girl’s story is not a pity story but a informational story that will hopefully make people want to help the slaves. She even shouts out to the people living in the north at the end, people that could have possibly helped need to know the graphic story. They needed to see how it felt to be a slave every step of the way. They needed not to count the house slaves out because they did have it just as bad as any other slave in the fields.
AP- English
10-08-09
The Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
This particular story just gave you the brief over view of how hard life was for slaves. It also goes to show that just because you were a fair skinned slave doesn’t life is going to be a piece of cake. In this story we walk thru life with a fair skinned slave who from what it seemed at first had the perfect life. She soon realizes that she is a slave and life seems to go downhill from there.
After her initial slave master dies she is thrown into a situation which is out of her control. She is to live with the children in law of her old slave master and this life isn’t anywhere close to as nice as her old life. She has to adjust to a total new life of actually doing real slave work. She witnesses some of the most violent slave beatings she’s ever seen. But she indeed has to get used to this because this is the treatment slaves “deserve”.
She ends up losing her father, and she expects her mistress to let her grieve. She doesn’t understand the slave life. The simple fact of considering herself as a human being is a privilege. At any moment she can be taken away from her position in the house. She finds it very hard to live under these conditions, sometimes she might not get to eat. Luckily she had her grandmother who is a great asset to the community when it comes to food. But thru all of this she does get to encounter the evilness of the human nature of the slave master and mistress.
As she gets older other trials come her way, like her grandmother getting sold into freedom. This was a great blessing to her grandmother but in a sense it was a curse to the girl because she no longer has a source of food, nor does she have someone to run to when she needs love and understanding. And if I thought adolescence was a stretch in this day in age, than is definitely was worse for slave girls. Her becoming a woman on her own had to be a struggle. She was already a beautiful girl and her being fair skinned didn’t help. This made her master more attracted to her and this made her an easy target so that he can molest her. She had already witnessed other situations where maybe a master had took advantage of a slave girl and got her pregnant. She knows that no good will come of this but there is nothing she can do about it.
I know that this slave girl’s story is not a pity story but a informational story that will hopefully make people want to help the slaves. She even shouts out to the people living in the north at the end, people that could have possibly helped need to know the graphic story. They needed to see how it felt to be a slave every step of the way. They needed not to count the house slaves out because they did have it just as bad as any other slave in the fields.
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