The story "Young Goodman Brown" is about a man who apparently takes a walk, but we never know if he actually did. It could've all just have been a dream. Goodman Brown takes a walk down a dark forest path, as he is walking he see's and old man. The old man tells him that he is late, and he say's that his wife kept him back. The old elder man was dressed as his grandfather. Then all of a sudden the old ma turns into a living serpent which is the devil. Later on the walk with the serpent he see's all the leaders of government with the devil. But again we don't actually know if it was all real. He believes that his wife Faith has been lying to him all along, he lost his faith in everyone that day.
The author Hawthorne communicates his theme in many ways, he uses tone, symbolism, characterization, foreshadowing, diction, and syntax. The way Hawthorne described the character as an honest person and then at the end all of it changing, to the main character Goodman Brown lost all his hope on everyone. From one simple dream it changed his whole perspective on people. The author used the pink ribbons for foreshadowing.
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