Young Goodman Brown Passes By: Sandra Hunter Introduction to American Literature Week 2

This week we read the story Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne and was asked to pick two passes that stuck out to us .In this essay I will be sharing the two passes that I liked and what I believe they met to me and how they made me feel.

The first passage I have picked is But where is Faith?" thought Goodman Brown; and as hope came into his heart, he trembled. I believe he was asking himself. This passage sticks out to me because I believe he was losing faith and he was asking himself to find it in his self. I can relate to this there is so many time I give up and half to stop and take the time to ask where my faith is .Now days it so easy to get discharge and lose faith and just wont to quit. However we must at look at who and what we become and realize without faith our family and kids would have nothing.

The next passes that stood out is But, alas! 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. On the Sabbath-day, when the congregation were singing a holy psalm, he could not listen, because an anthem of sin rushed loudly upon his ear, and drowned all the blessed strain. When the minister spoke from the pulpit, with power and fervid eloquence, and with his hand on the open Bible, of the sacred truths of our religion, and of saint-like lives and triumphant deaths, and of future bliss or misery unutterable, then did Goodman Brown turn pale, dreading lest the roof should thunder down upon the gray blasphemer and his hearers. Often, awaking suddenly at midnight, he shrank from the bosom of Faith, and at morning or eventide, when the family knelt down at prayer, he scowled, and muttered to himself, and gazed