Compare And Contrast The Black Veil And Sinners

In the light of Nathaniel Hawthorne's “The Black Veil”, and Jonathan Edward’s “Sinners”, evidence helps support Hawthorne's claim and theme for the story. The theme of Hawthorne’s Black Veil is everyone has a secret sin, even if they don't have a black veil. This claim can be made by Hawthorne’s intense and serious writing style. Hawthorne supports the idea in his story that everyone has a sin that no one, except for God, knows about and he uses the black veil in the story as a physical piece to show that the minister in the story is hiding his sins. In Jonathan Edward’s “Sinners”, Edwards makes a claim that to Fear God, because he is the only one holding you out of Hell. God knows what you have done, don't try and act innocent. The following paragraphs will help support Edward’s style and how it was more effective to reach out to readers

who read “The Black Veil”.

In resemblance, Hawthorne’s “The Black Veil’ and Edward’s Sinners” have plenty of things in common. Both claims and themes from both stories tell you that everyone has a secret sin and don't try to hide them like you are innocent. In “The Black Veil” by Nathaniel Hawthorne on sentence 492, the sentence stats, “...beneath which i have lived and died! I look around me, and, lo! On every image a black veil!”, and in ‘Sinners” by Jonathan Edward’s in sentence’s 42-43, the sentence stats, “The wrath of God is like great waters that are damned for the present…”, both of these quotes prove that no matter if it is physical or not, you have a black veil that hides your sins and hiding your sins and sinning angers God, you don't want to anger God because like Edward's story is trying to say, God is the only one keeping you out of Hell.

In contrast, both authors may be talking about sinning, but the two authors are talking about different ideas and key points. Both authors use two different styles and tactics to discuss their theme and show what their theme is and their purpose for writing their stories. Hawthorne went with a more modern approach with his language while Edwards went with a more historic writing style. In Edward’s Sinners, he used a more hellashish approach to his writing, talking as if it were Goddesses listening. Hawthorne used the more “story telling” approach.

As a matter of fact, Hawthorne used a writing style to where you must put yourself in someone else's shoes.

He writes in a third person type of format and tells a story. Hawthorne wants the readers to put themselves into the minister’s shoes. By doing so we experience wearing a black veil to hide our sins away from God. But aren't we always wearing a black veil? We always hide our sins, only God knows every right and wrong we have ever done. A black veil is real but in the story it is physical, this is what Hawthorne was trying to tell the readers. Our black veil is invisible but the ministers was physical and if we had a real one we would be judged differently by everyone. Edwards used a more historic writing style with that hell on earth type of feel. Edwards wanted to get to the readers by scaring them, putting them, in their place, wanting them, to realize the bad that happens when you sin and try to hide your sin from God. If God is the only one holding you out of Hell, why would you hide your sins, sin, and do wrong by God? Its question needing answered and Edwards helped put it in a better perspective f0or all

readers.

Hawthorne was more effective because of his writing format. He used a o=modern approach. He also told a story to put yourself in someone else's shoes and makes you think after you read the story that you shouldn't try to hide your sins. Also tells the reader that someday everyone is going to realize they have a black veil and they must do away with them and admit their sins, sentence 275 from ‘The Black Veil” does so by saying, “There is no hour to come; said he, when all of us shall cast aside our veils”. One could argue that Edwards was more effective because of his hellashish and scary approach. Edwards tries to scare the readers to not do wrong or one will go to Hell to pay the price for the wrong one has done by God. From “Sinners” by Edwards in sentence’s 8-9 stats. “...Hell is gaping for them…” This sentence makes one fear God because one will be scared by the appearance of Hell and will fear to do wrong by God.

In conclusion, both authors were very persuasive, Hawthorne was more convincing, but both scared the reader. One will have nothing to fear as long as they do not hide their sins and do wrong by God. One can it here and think, “Do i have a black veil? Am i doing wrong by God? Will I go Hell?” These are the questions a reader will ask themselves after reading thase stories. Do not bring about a black veil to hide your sins from the world and from God, and one will not have to worry about the wrath of God and not have to worry about being let go to fall into the gates of hell, end of story!