Young Goodman Brown

Title: Young Goodman Brown
Author: Nathathaniel Hawthrone

Goodman?? Look at the book cover. I might not think of something related to good things. The book cover looks devilish and hellish. Yeah, the story is about devil and Black Mass.

There was Goodman Brown in a town of America. Goodman and his wife, Faith, were the puritans. They had strong belief in Puritan. One day, Goodman was going for an errand an unknown task. Faith, can refer as Goodman's wife and the word faith itself, tried to stop Goodman from going for the journey. When Goodman was turning a corner, he sees this wife is staring at him and scolds himself. Later in the forest, he meets a devil who looks just like from Goodman's grandfather. Goodman tried to endure the devil's wicked whispering. When he said that his ancestors would not do such thing as he was doing, the devil tells him that he knows his grand father, father and mother. Goodman follows the devil. He thinks of his church people and walks away from the devil. However, he meets his church people, even the saint, in the forest. They were going for the Black Mass. They told Goodman that there was a girl joining to the Black Mass. Goodman do not care and takes one step forward. Just then, he listens to Faith's voice. "My Faith is gone..." and just then every thing disappears. The people, the Black Mass area. He was standing alone in the middle of the forest. When he came back to he villiage, he was completely different person. He did not trust any body, even his wife. He lives sorrow and lonely life for rest of his life.

This story was very interesting due to the names. "My Faith is gone..." in this sentence, the readers can find out two different meanings. Firstly, as Faith was going to the Black Mass, Goodman say "My wife is gone" however, in different meaning "My belief is gone"