Young Goodman Brown Book Report

Young Goodman Brown

In the story Young Goodman Brown, the character Goodman Brown changes throughout the story. In the beginning he was a kind man loving husband with nothing holding him down, not even the warnings of his wife Faith. As he walked and talked with the Devil, he became more aware of what had happened in the past with his own family. When he saw the Devil talk with Goody Cloyse on the path in the woods he figured out by the nature of their conversation that the Devil was more mischievous than he thought, he started to have uncertainties about the errand he was on at that point Goodman Brown told the devil he was not going another step. Shortly after the Devil left him in the path, he found a ribbon on a branch of a tree and at

But when Goodman Brown saw his Faith willing to except the Devils offerings he yelled out to her, to look to the heavens and not to except what the Devil offered. In that moment he came back to his loving and caring husband again. She had brought him back from the Devil just as she had delivered him. When he had awoke he was confused and paranoid at what he saw, the good old minister was getting his sermon ready and Old Deacon Goodkin was in worship. And to see Goody Cloyse catechizing a child broke him, he grabbed the child to keep the child safe from the evilness the women could put in her. Still not able to shake the paranoia as he went around the next corner he saw his wife was so joyful but then he looked away and walked right by her wondering if he had dreamed what happened. At the end he found out …it was a dream of evil omen for young Goodman Brown. A stern, a sad, a darkly meditative, a distrustful, if not a desperate man, did he become from the night of that fearful dream (Hawthorne 101). After that he became closed off, cowardly, and died a lonely and sad man. He turned away when his family would pray and not even a few neighbors went to his grave …they carved no hopeful verse upon his tombstone; his dying hour was

Frist was the name Young Goodman Brown, in the footnote it says, Goodman: title given by Puritans to a male head of house hold; a farmer or other ordinary citizen (Hawthorne 92). Also with the way the vocabulary of the characters and the way they talked throughout the story would defiantly have it set in Puritan times. In the same footnote was also stated the place which the story was set. Salem village: in England’s Massachusetts Bay Colony. (Hawthorne 92). That was the village were Goodman Brown lived but his very realistic dream took place in the woods beyond Salem as stated in the footnotes …all the way to the woods beyond Salem… (Hawthorne 93). In those woods was were the path was located that would take them to the meeting where the big rock that had a resemblance to a pulpit or alter, were the Devil