excerpt from young goodman Brown
...like qualities, in this case laughter, in order to have a laughing contest with Goodman brown. The ‘N’ is also capitalized in Nature possibly to show how the word is being used as a name opposed to a thing. The line “”come witch, come wizard, come Indian powwow, come devil himself!” explains how Goodman Brown has evil on his side because he is listing evil beings which is believed to be what causes unnatural occurrences. The excerpt from “the custom house” is about the narrator talking about his ancestors. The line “It still haunts me, and induces a sort of home-feeling to the past…” shows how the narrator had a negative life at home because he is saying that being haunted is giving him a homely feeling. In this paragraph the narrator also compares good to evil. He talks about an ancestor who he believed to be good and evil. He says “With his bible and sword”, which are two things related to opposite forces of good and evil. He calls him “a man of war and peace” and even says “he had all the Puritanic traits, both good and evil”. The last line the narrator says “I, the present writer, as their representative, herby take shame upon myself for their sakes…”. The narrator is taking the blame ...