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    story Young Goodman Brown is by the famous author Nathaniel Hawthorne. Where Young Goodman Brown‚ leaves his wife Faith. He ventures off into the gloomy forest of Salem. He is quickly approached by an older man and his companion. Young Goodman Brown follows these two men wherever they go. Along their path they meet a woman‚ Goody Cloyse‚ who taught Young Goodman Brown his catechism. The companion starts to look like a devil and the woman starts to look like a witch. After some time Young Goodman

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    Read: The short story “A Good Man is Hard to Find” is about a family of 6 who is traveling to Florida from Atlanta Georgia to go on vacation. The family includes 3 children‚ a mother‚ a father‚ a grandmother‚ and the grandmothers cat. The grandmother didn’t want to go on vacation to Florida and wanted to go to Tennesse instead‚ so she was doing everything she could to persuade them from going. She tried to scare them from going to Florida by telling them about a serial killer who was on the loose

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    Hawthorne’s ambiguous ending in "Young Goodman Brown" leaves the reader asking one question. "Had Goodman Brown fallen asleep in the forest and only dreamed a wild dream of a witch hunting?" Most readers of this allegory try to answer this question‚ believing that Goodman Brown did in fact take the "dreary road‚ darkened by all the gloomiest trees of the forest." Hawthorne himself has avoided answering the question‚ and has instead left it up for the reader to decide Goodman Brown’s fate. The reader

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    with a significant amount of meaning behind them in “Young Goodman Brown”‚ he also makes use of symbolism in actions to further the complexity of each personality. Specifically‚ Young Goodman Brown starts off with name symbolism that paints him as a lovable young man‚ but as the story progresses and other types of symbolism come into play‚ a contrasting personality emerges from the young protagonist. As the main character‚ Young Goodman Brown represents a general person in which readers can easily

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    being a nice guy that he pulled over‚ he don’t want to but he did for a reason to have a chat with another driver because he found out that the driver of other car is a beautiful girl name “Mariana”‚ which he hit it from his old Buick. “A good man is hard to find” a story of a lady whose character mention as a “grandmother”‚ the whole story is based on grandmother mind set and the killer “misfit”‚ who escape from prison with his inmates friends. The family of grandmother made a vacation trip to Florida

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    Grandmother In the story A Good Man is Hard to Find‚ the grandmother plays a significant role. She is the typical grandmother of‚ “years gone by”. She gives critical advice to her son and his wife. She seems to know best when it comes to the children as well. She mentions in the story that children used to be respectful towards their parents‚ when the children make snarky comments about her having to go wherever they went. Aside from her feeling that the children are disrespectful‚ the no-name grandmother

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    “grandmother”‚ is often followed by an image of a sweet elderly woman who will often encourage‚ support‚ and model what type of person another should strive to be. In cases like the one presented by Flannery O’Connor in his short story‚ “A Good Man is Hard to Find‚” the grandmother possesses qualities that are rarely associated with grandmas. Most fictional characters have flaws and redeemable qualities to parallel living people and the “grandmother” in the story follows the same trend by having some

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    The grandmother in "A Good Man is Hard to Find" is thinks that she is superior than everyone. She judges and others and probaby doesn’t even notice it because she does it so often. Grandmother thinks that her conscience guides her is he life‚ like when she tells Bailey that her conscience wouldn;t let her take the children where the misfit has been. She is very overbearing by critizing the mother for not taveling with the kids that would allow them to "be broad." Grandmother never critizes herself

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    stories are allegorical in nature” (Hawthorne). In his short story “Young Goodman Brown‚” Nathaniel Hawthorne uses symbols to show a man’s allegorical walk towards evil.

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    Savannah Kirkpatrick Hensley English 11 / 7th Period 07 February 2017 Part 4: Setting And Atmosphere The story ? A Good Man Is Hard To Find? takes place around some back roads that are in the south. The family lives in Atlanta‚ and is traveling through Georgia to get to Florida to meet some of their family members. While on their way there‚ they stopped by a place called The Tower for some barbeque sandwiches and something to drink. After finishing

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