Assignment Directions

1. Re-examine Fiction Terminology.  Make sure that you pay attention to the sample analysis provided in that page of Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" to show you how to format your responses.  You do NOT need to provide a biography section.
2. Read and analyze the following short story:   The Story of Grandmother..docx
3. In a separate Word document that is in format, provide your response in bullet-point fashion as the sample showed you.

So, I can't give the picture or link of the "Young Goodman Brown" for you to see, however, I will copy and paste the information of it so you can read.

 

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
Biography
- Born July 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts; his ancestors were among the first to settle
Massachusetts; one ancestor was a judge who presided over the Salem witch trials, 1692
-  At 4, his sea captain father died of yellow feverthe family moved into the Manning's
(mother's family) capacious home in Salem
-  At 16, he wrote his sister telling her that he dreamt of "becoming an Author, and relying
for support upon my pen."
-  At 17, he entered Bowdoin College in Maine
 - At 21, he graduated
 - At 24, he published his first novel Fanshawe; it was a failure; years of repeated failures
 - At 32, he became an editor
 - At 33, with Horatio Bridge's help Twice-Told Tales was published and got good reviews
 Family lore has it that he fought a duel, over Mary Silsbee, with John O'Sullivan.
 - At 34, met Sophia Peabody (sometimes invalid from migraines); within months secretly
engaged
 - At 35, he became a salt and coal measurer for Boston Custom House for money, and he
invested in an utopian community named brook Farm
 - At 37, he spent 7 months at Brook Farm
 - At 38, he and Sophia were married; they rented a house from Emerson
 - At 40, first child, Una
 - At 41, low on money, they moved back to mom's house
 - At 42, second child, Julian; became a surveyor for Salem Custom's Housestifled his
creativity
 - At 45, his mother diedhe began working on The Scarlet Letter
 - At 46, The Scarlet Letter was published—a success; also, they had a third child, Rose
 - At 47, The House of Seven Gables (Romance in a Salem setting)
 - At 48, The Blithedale Romance (of his experience at Brook Farm)
 - At 49, he wrote The Life of Franklin Pierce; later appointed him to American Councilor
at Liverpool (1853-1857)got in the way of his writing but helped to support his family
 - Left Liverpool post when the Pres. wasn't reelectedstayed to tour Europein Italy in
1959 Una nearly died of malaria
 - At 56, The Marble Farm (about their time in Italy); the family returned to Concord; Una
was sickly, and his health was failingdepression
 - He disliked the Civil War, saying it was "a nation gone mad with war". He remained
loyal to Pierce (a Southerner)didn't help his image
 - At 60, frail and isolated, he and Pierce took a trip to New Hampshire, where Hawthorne
died in a hotel. He is buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord

Influenced by
o The Pilgrim's Progress, Henry Fielding, William Godwin, Sir Walter Scott,
Horatio Bridge, Franklin Pierce, Long Fellow, Emerson, Thoreau, fuller, etc.
 - Celebrated for his prose style, perceptive rendering of New England history,
psychological acuity, and vivid characterizations.
 - Deeply private and ambiguous, he refused to pinpoint a simple moral in a storyreaders
must do their own interpreting.

PLOT
- Exposition
o Young Goodman Brown (YGB) leaves his house, saying goodbye to his wife
(Faith), she tries to get him not to go, they have been married for three months
o He feels compelled to go on his evil purpose; to keep "covenant by meeting thee
[the devil?] here"
- Rising action
o YGB meets an Old Man who is trying to persuade YGB to follow him; YGB is
trying to resist.
o YGB is shocked to learnt that his family has had dealings with the Old Man, devil
o YGB is shocked to learn that respected individuals in the town have also had
dealings with the devil (deacons, selectmen, Great and general Court, ministers,
Goody Cloyse)
o He still refuses to go with the devil
+ But then he hears a woman's voice and finds a pink ribbon (Faith)
+ So he believes that he has no reason not to go with the devil
o He goes deep into the forest (midnight)
o He sees a fiery pulpit, baptism of evil
o The devil has a speech: "The fiend in his own shape is less hideous than when he
rages in the breast of man"
- Turning Point
o The converts are called forth
o Faith is to be baptized
- Climax
o He calls out to Faith to resist the Wicked One
- Falling action 
o He wakes
o He comes out of the forest, morning
o He now sees all as sinners and despises them
 Denouement
o Upon his death no hopeful verse on his tombstone; his dying hour is gloom
 Foreshadowing: Mission, Faith, Old Man, ribbon, etc.

CHARACTERS
- Young Goodman Brown
o Determined, sure, naïve, judgmental, married
o Adam-like
o Name
+ Young=rank in family, naïve
 +Goodman=rank in town, morality?
 +Brown=common, earthy, everyman
o Protagonist, dynamic, round, antagonist? Sympathetic?
- Faith
o Young, pretty, pink ribbons, whisper, submissive, childlike, ineffective
o Eve-like
o Name

 +Faith/in God
o Static, flat, sympathetic?
- Old Man
o Grave attire, 50years old?, Persuasive, trickster, shape shifter, has a staff (Moses?,
but wrong)
o Devil, doubt
o Antagonist?, static, flat, unsympathetic
SETTING
- Where: Salem village, woods
 -When: Late 17th century
 -Weather: N/A
 -Mood: Ominous, tense

STYLE
- Symbols 
+ Bad omens
    o Sunset
     o Forest
     o Midnight
     o Bell
    o Snake 

+ Religion
      o Salem
      o Three
       o Path
     o Staff
     o Red
     o Basin of blood
    o Fire
+ Innocence
        o Pink ribbons

Dramatic irony / Tone
- Humor
o Poor little Faith!, faith kept me back a while, Is that any reason why I should
quit my dear Faith, My Faith is gone, But, where is Faith, followed by Faith
- Allusion
 +Puritanism, Bible
POINT OF VIEW
 -Third-person, omniscient
THEME
- Faith: When one begins to doubt, they have already lost faith
- Religion: Religion can be oppressive
- Gender: Women are subservient to men, second-class citizens, insignificant, morally
questionable
 - Sin and innocence: Innocence is fragile, predestined?
- Reality: One's perceived reality might not actually be reality

HERE IS THE STORY FOR READ AND DO THE ASSIGNMENT

The Story of Grandmother
Anonymous
There was once a woman who had made some bread. She said to her daughter: "Take this loaf of
hot bread and this bottle of milk over to granny's."
The little girl left. At the crossroads she met a wolf, who asked: "Where are you going?"
"I'm taking a loaf of hot bread and a bottle of milk to granny's."
"Which path are you going to take," asked the wolf, "the path of needles or the path of pins?"
"The path of needles," said the little girl.
"Well, then, I'll take the path of pins."
The little girl had fun picking up needles. Meanwhile, the wolf arrived at granny's, killed her, put
some of her flesh in the pantry and a bottle of her blood on the shelf. The little girl got there and knocked
at the door.
"Push the door," said the wolf, "it's latched with a wet straw."
"Hello, granny. I'm bringing you a loaf of hot bread and a bottle of milk."
"Put it in the pantry, my child. Take some of the meat in there along with the bottle of wine on the
shelf."
There was a little cat the room who watched her eat and said: "Phooey! You're a slut if you eat the
flesh and drink the blood of granny."
"Take your clothes off, my child," said the wolf, "and come into bed with me."
"Where should I put my apron?"
"Throw it into the fire, my child. You won't be needing it any longer."
When she asked the wolf where to put all her other things, her bodice, her dress, her skirt, and her
stockings, each time he said: "Throw them into the fire, my child. You won't be needing them any longer."
"Oh, granny, how hairy you are!"
"The better to keep me warm, my child!"
"Oh, granny, what long nails you have!"
"The better to scratch myself with, my child!"
"Oh, granny, what big shoulders you have!"
"The better to carry firewood with, my child!"
"Oh, granny, what big ears you have!"
"The better to hear you with, my child!"
"Oh, granny, what big nostrils you have!"
"The better to sniff my tobacco with, my child!"
"Oh, granny, what a big mouth you have!"
"The better to eat you with, my child!"
"Oh, granny, I need to go badly. Let me go outside!"
"Do it in the bed, my child."
"No, granny, I want to go outside."
"All right, but don't stay out long."
The wolf tied a rope made of wool to her leg and let her go outside. When the little girl got outside,
she attached the end of the rope to a plum tree in the yard. The wolf became impatient and said: "Are you
making cables out there? Are you making cables?"
When he realized that there was no answer, he jumped out of bed and discovered that the little girl
had escaped. He followed her, but he reached her house only after she had gotten inside.

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Analysis of The Story of Grandmother Plot Exposition A woman instructs her daughter to take bread and milk to her grandmother Rising Action The girl e... View the full answer