Young Goodman Brown

    1. I think the author's purpose in writing this story was to show how someone can lose their own faith because other people believe in something else. For example, Brown's faith was towards God and the rest of the people was towards the devil.
    2. Faith's name fits her personality because her faith changes throughout the story from good to bad; God to devil. Brown had true faith with her in the beginning because he knew that she was pure within. At the end, Brown can't trust her anymore because of what he saw in the woods, the ceremony. Brown doesn't trust anyone which would make you crazy, technically being alone.
    3. Faith's pink ribbons might represent her personality throughout the story as her own faith changes, as in good to bad.
    4. What Brown was seeing was real because as he had opened his eyes, he had felt weird vibes with everyone including Faith. "A stern, a sad, a darkly meditative, a distrustful, if not a desperate man, did he become, from the night of that fearful dream." Brown still had feelings from that one night. If it was only a dream he wouldn't feel anything and get over it.
    5. I think the Old Man is the devil because as the devil, he can seem like your friend and wants to help you. "... second traveller was about fifty years old, apparently in the same rank of life as Goodman Brown... Still, they might have been taken for father and son." This means how the Old Man reminds Brown's of his father. The devil was once God's best friend.
    6. The staff represents a reference to the Bible as the Old Man told Brown that the staff would take him where he needs to go faster. As in the Bible, Eve was tempted by the serpent of eating the fruit. At the beginning, Brown was curious to go the journey through the forest and he did. I think the staff is the motive that messes with Brown's conscience and mind as it lends him into the ceremony.
    7. I believe that Brown's life would have been different if he wouldn't have went through the woods. As Faith was trying to warn him in the beginning of representing evil and feeling something wrong. I feel like the people already had believed in the devil but hadn't showed it to Brown because they knew he was a man of God.