Compare And Contrast Young Goodman Brown And The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner

Change is the making of someone or something become different. Every journey will bring either a large or a small change. Two short stories, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown,”, and Ernest Hemingway’s “Soldier’s Home,” and an English ballad written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge titled “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” all demonstrate in detail the changes a person experiences during a journey. The main characters, from the three previously mentioned stories, each go on a journey that significantly changes their personal outlook on themselves and with life itself afterward.
The character Goodman Brown, from “Young Goodman Brown,” partakes in a journey into the forest during the late evening where he undertakes many obscure paths that transform his attitude with life completely. Goodman Brown starts off as an innocent man until he ventures deeper into the forest and meets with an elderly man that possibly represents the devil. The stranger began to corrupt Goodman Brown’s mind as they proceeded along the journey. For example, “Goodman Brown believes in the Christian nature of Goody Cloyse, the minister,
Harold Krebs is a United States marine that fought in World War I. When he comes back home from the war, he personally discovers how much he has changed after the many years he has been away from home. "He is home, but it is no soldier’s home to which he has returned" (Soldier's Home). For instance, Krebs returns home a lot later than everyone else from the military, so he does not experience a warm welcoming from the townspeople which makes him feel as if nothing has changed within his hometown. At first, he does not readjust and remains an empty shell of a man, but towards the end of the story, Krebs decides to find a job and to go watch his little sister's game, which could possibly lead to another journey of a greater