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What do you think Hawthorne's purpose was for writing this story? 1) I think that Hawthorne's purpose for writing this story is to simply tell a story to someone. Also, maybe he has heard the stories of the devil and thought he could make his own story out of it. 2.  Hawthorne states that Brown's wife is "aptly named" Faith.  After reading the story, do you agree?  Does Faith's name fit her personality?  Does Brown have true faith in her? 2)  I agree that Brown's wife has a lot of faith, but not as much in Goodman Brown because she tried as hard as she could to keep him from going on his journey. I also, don't think Brown had faith in faith because even after faith warning him, he still went without even thinking why did she not want him to go on the journey. 3. What do you think the pink ribbons signify? 3) I think that pink ribbons signify happiness because when Goodman brown left to go on his journey when he looked back her pink ribbo

theme: the central message. tone: the author's attitude towards the characters, the topic, and audience. mood: a state or quality of feeling at a particular time. diction: the words the author uses to tell a story. syntax: the study of the rules for the formation in sentences. stupid: lacking ordinary quickness and keenness of the mind. adumbrate: report or represent in outline. apotheosis: the highest point in the development of something. ascetic: practice of self-discipline and abstention. bauble: a showy, usually cheap, ornament. beguile: charm or enchant(someone). burgeon: begin to grow or increase rapidly. complement: a thing that completes or brings to perfection. contumacious: stubbornly or willfully. curmudgeon: a bad-tempered or surly person. didactic: intended to teach.

I didn't really understand the text in Young Goodman Brown. I don't like reading books with words like "thee" and "agone". From what I read Young Goodman Brown and his wife are really faithful and Young Goodman Brown went on a journey that his wife was trying to warn him about. Then later in the story Goodman Brown looses his faith, and gives the world to the Devil.

I found this story to be very interesting. When we hear the word hacker, some of the things that come to mind is bad person, trying to get the easy way out, and one that he uses in the story a lot is criminal, but in this story he made me see that I was always wrong about the hackers. Sometimes we overlook what bad things happen in the real world, and instead we shame the people that are just trying to help or express them self.

In my class we learning that the story "Earth on turtle's back", uses some key ways in talking about the story. It seems like when the author tells the story he wanted the text to be very simple and not difficult to the point were you didn't know what the author was trying to say. In class I learned that this is called, diction. Diction means the words the author uses to tell the story.

"Earth on the turtle's back" was a pretty good short story on how some people believe the earth came to be. Some parts of the story that I found interesting was when the last animal (the muskrat) was so determined to bring the earth from the ground. Also something I found interesting was how they explained why the turtle's back has the shape and pattern that it has. Also how much this story relates to some other spiritual stories like in the bible. This story and the one from the bible both start off with only one thing being in the world. In this short story there is only water to start off, in the bible there is only darkness. So I really enjoyed this reading and hope to read more alike.

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