I would like to start out saying that Young Goodman Brown made my head hurt! I have never really liked or understood this story very much even though I have read it many times. For what ever resin it just really doesn't sink in for me. But anyways I will explain what I have gathered from "Young Goodman Brown." Goodman is a newly married man that for some resin decides to leave is new wife "Faith" one night to go wondering in the woods or to take care of so business.....something. When he gets there he meets a creepy stranger with a walking stick and decides it would be a good idea to take a little stroll with him into the woods. As they are walking Brown mentions how his Father and grandad are pure and faithful believers and how they would have never gone on this sinful journey. This stranger, (who I'm going to call Satin) Tells Brown that both of his father and his grandfather were close friends or something. Any way Browns family wasn't as great as he thought. On this little walk Brown see people that a important in the religious community walking on the same path of sin. He wonders why such pious people are walking down hells highway. He decides that he isn't going any Father down the path with Satin. So he sits down and Satin gives him his staff and tells him to rest and after he is better to keep walking. Brown sits a while then decide to keep going. When he gets to the meeting he sees Faith, his wife is there and she has changed. she doesn't have her pink ribbions and she looks older and wore out. Brown is upset by this and feels he has lost his "Faith". There are alot of people at this meeting to be baptised for the devil and when it is his turn he tell Faith to look to the lord and not to give in. The is jumps or something because the next thing i understood is he was walking threw the town seeing the people from the night before acting normal and Faith finds him she seems fine to. He doesn't know if what happened the night before was a dream or really happened. He is torn.
I think the Aurthur called him "Young" Goodmen Brown to show how naive he was to the world and then at the end his life was less black and white.
Now for the Lottery, I enjoyed this so So SOO much more then Young Woodmen Brown! This story even though it is clearly messed up doesn't start out that way. The author doesn't make the Lottery seem like it would be a bad thing to "win." When i thing Lottery I always think of money or a new car or something nice or good, but in this story you don't want to win. Getting back to the story. The day of the lottery is presented as a festival of some sort were the kids gather rocks and family come together in the town square. There is mention that there use to be a lager amount of ritual with the lottery and now is more strate forward. The head of the house goes up in ABC order and takes a piece of paper from the box. you cant look at it tell you told and then the family that gets the paper with the black spot has to draw again. Every one in the family have to pull a slip, even the small kids. The one from the family that draws the black spot again gets stoned to death. Sounds really awesome! NOT!!!! The thing is they don't really explain why the Lottery even goes on. Is it superstition, tradition, or just a messed up sicioty? The fact that the kids gather the stones and the family of the person that gets the black spot has to help stone them. The women in the story has pebbles trown at her by her toddler son! That is creepy! and then the town just goes back to the way life is every day like they didn't just Kill a member of there county. What a great story! :)
-Jenna Feiler
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