Bellwork/ Journal Entry:

What is something you put your faith in and why? (People, religion, hobbies, etc.)

SSR 10 mins: Silently read “The Fox and The Grapes”on page 388.

Objectives

Content Objective: SWD the understanding of the stories “The Young Goodman Brown” and “The Fox and The Grapes”

Language Objective: SWD the understanding of literary elements through the completion of a reduction.

Young Goodman Brown

By Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne

● Birth: July 4th, 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts ● Death: May 19th, 1864 in Plymouth, New Hampshire ● Studied at Bowdoin College ● An early ancestor William Hawthorne came from England to America was w

a judge and known for harsh sentencing, and his son John was just like him so Nathaniel added a ‘w’ to his name so he is distant from his family.

● At an early age he had encountered a leg injury which left him immobile and then began to read and write stories.

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Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne Title:Young Goodman Brown Genre:Fiction

Point of view:3rd person/Omniscient

Setting/Atmosphere:-Story setting is in the late the 1600s -Salem Village -Forest-Author wrote it in the 1800s , author wanted to show the hypocrisy of Salem Village and the treatment of villagers in the late 1600s

AP English Literary Reduction

Plot development- (include specific details)

Exposition: The story begins in the village in an atmosphere of suspense and mystery. Then we know Goodman is going to a journey to the forest but without any clue why or where. A little information about Goodman is given, we know he is happily married and takes pride in community and its leaders. His family has done very evil things in the past. Rising Action: Goodman is in the woods and meets a snake shaped staff and shows him some weird things in the woods. First he meets him to a lady named Goody Cloyse which really is a witch. Second shows him Decon and the minister riding together talking about their love “devility” and devil worship. And he begins to hear his wife's voice and thinks she's up to some naughty things.Climax: Goodman begins to go crazy and think his wife is up to something and convinced she is hiding things away from him. Then, he was invited to a meeting where they celebrate sin, evil, and guilt but he manages to not go and say no. Falling Action: Young Goodman returns to the village the next day very surprised of everything he has seen in the woods. He tries to resist the hypocrisy and devilish of his townspeople but small conflicts emerged. Resolution: The end of the story it shows us the future of Goodman years later and how he has hard time trusting people and always thinking the bad about everyone.

Major/ Minor Characters: -Goodman Brown: Resident of Salem Village and story’s protagonist. He is a good christian and he is married to faith. Has pride in family’s piety history and reputation as “Godly”. -Faith: Goodman’s wife, she is young, beautiful, and trustworthy. She is seen as the embodiment of virtue. -The old man/devil: A man who possibly is the devil, and tempts Goodman into attending the ceremony in the Forest.- Goody Cloyse: A villager in Salem Village, who reveals herself as a witch. She seems to be a good christian but does magic shows and attends ceremonies at the forest. -The minister: Minister of Salem, a respectable pillar to the community but really is a follower of the devil. Deacon Gookin: A member of the clergy in Salem and follower of the devil, he is a very important person in church and Goodman thinks he is religious.

“MOOD!!!!”-Hussein Habhab

Symbols/Irony -Connect to Themes -Faith: She represents Goodman’s belief in Christianity. Her pink ribbons symbolize purity and innocence very similar to Goodman’s belief in Christianity. In the woods, he meets evil and he tries to lead him in a stray but he refuses and stays with faith. But, due to his experience in the woods it causes him to change view in Christianity and also in faith. -Staff: The devils staff are surrounded by snakes which alludes to the story Adam and Eve and how they pressured Eve to eat from the forbidden fruit. Very similar to how Goodman was pressured to travel faster and lose his innocence. -Woods: Represents the outside of the village, the comforting village where everyone is good but in the woods you are able to see the mixture of nature and evil. Irony: -The Witch: She is shown and represented as the “Good Catholic” but really a witch and does magic shows in the woods. -Deacon Gookin: He is very religious in the village and member of the church for “show” but really believes in the devil.

Themes: -The Inevitable Loss of Innocence: Goodman Brown loses his innocence because of his inherent corruptibility, which suggests that whether the events in the forest were a dream or reality, the loss of his innocence was inevitable. Instead of being corrupted by some outside force, Goodman Brown makes a personal choice to go into the forest and meet with the devil; the choice was the true danger, and the devil only facilitates Goodman Brown’s fall. Goodman Brown is never certain whether the evil events of the night are real, but it does not matter. If they are a dream, then they come completely from Goodman Brown’s head—a clear indication of his inherent dark side. If they are real, then Goodman Brown has truly seen that everyone around him is corrupt, and he brought this realization upon himself through his excessive curiosity. Goodman Brown’s loss of innocence was inevitable, whether the events of the night were real or a dream.- The Weakness of Public Morality: In “Young Goodman Brown,” Hawthorne reveals what he sees as the corruptibility that results from Puritan society’s emphasis on public morality, which often weakens private religious faith. Although Goodman Brown has decided to come into the forest and meet with the devil, he still hides when he sees Goody Cloyse and hears the minister and Deacon Gookin. He seems more concerned with how his faith appears to other people than with the fact that he has decided to meet with the devil. Goodman Brown’s religious convictions are rooted in his belief that those around him are also religious. This kind of faith, which depends so much on other people’s views, is easily weakened. When Goodman Brown discovers that his father, grandfather, Goody Cloyse, the minister, Deacon Gookin, and Faith are all in league with the devil, Goodman Brown quickly decides that he might as well do the same. Hawthorne seems to suggest that the danger of basing a society on moral principles and religious faith lies in the fact that members of the society do not arrive at their own moral decisions. When they copy the beliefs of the people around them, their faith becomes weak and rootless.

-The Fear of Wilderness: From the moment he steps into the forest, Goodman Brown voices his fear of the wilderness, seeing the forest as a place where no good is possible. In this he echoes the dominant point of view of seventeenth-century Puritans, who believed that the wild New World was something to fear and then dominate. Goodman Brown, like other Puritans, associates the forest with the wild “Indians” and sees one hiding behind every tree. He believes that the devil could easily be present in such a place—and he eventually sees the devil himself, just as he had expected. He considers it a matter of family honor that his forefathers would never have walked in the forest for pleasure, and he is upset when the devil tells him that this was not the case. He himself is ashamed to be seen walking in the forest and hides when Goody Cloyse, the minister, and Deacon Gookin pass. The forest is characterized as devilish, frightening, and dark, and Goodman Brown is comfortable in it only after he has given in to evil.

Themes part 2:

Three (3) Significant quotes (quotes, why quote is significant)

1."Can this be so!" cried Goodman Brown, with a stare of amazement at his undisturbed companion. "Howbeit, I have nothing to do with the governor and council; they have their own ways, and are no rule for a simple husbandman, like me. But, were I to go on with thee, how should I meet the eye of that good old man, our minister, at Salem village? Oh his voice would make me tremble, both Sabbath-day and lecture-day!" - theme “The inevitable loss of innocence”. 2. "Wickedness or not," said the traveler with the twisted staff, "I have a very general acquaintance here in New-England. The deacons of many a church have drunk the communion wine with me; the selectmen, of divers towns, make me their chairman; and a majority of the Great and General Court are firm supporters of my interest. The governor and I, too—but these are state secrets."- Theme “The Weakness of Public Morality” 3. “The whole forest was peopled with frightful sounds—the creaking of the trees, the howling of wild beasts, and the yell of Indians; while sometimes the wind tolled like a distant church bell, and sometimes gave a broad roar around the traveler, as if all Nature were laughing him to scorn. But he was himself the chief horror of the scene, and shrank not from its other horrors. “ - theme “ The fear of Wilderness”

Finish reduction at home if you didn't finish or copy before class *cough cough* al hussein al saeed.

The Fox and the Grapes

By Aesop

Author Background

● Believed to have been born around 600 BC.● Not much about his life is known. He is believed to have been from

Ethiopia and a freed slave who earned his freedom through his storytelling and even became advisor to a king.

● The first recorded mention came more than a hundred years after his death

● A kiss to Alata made my whole day…, but it made his whole week!

Plot

● A fox is chillin one day when he sees some nice a** grapes. ● The fox jumps and jumps but he can’t get to the grapes. ● He gave up● He decided to leave and as he was leaving he said to himself “They’re

probably sour anyways”● The moral of the story is it’s easy to despise something you can’t have.

That’s why everyone hates me.

Characters

● The Fox - The main character. Can’t get the grapes● The Grapes - Nice, juicy, succulent, grapes. ;) Cannot be gotten● The Air - Without the air, there would be no fox or grapes. Easily the most

important character.● Ali Alata - Paid the City of Dearborn to cut the whole tree down

https://alialata.wixsite.com/alata

“I shoulda made more fortune cookies”

Symbols

● Fox - The reader and really anyone who can relate to the dilemma faced by the fox

● The Grapes - That which is sought after an eludes grasp. Represents the goals we set for ourselves and the inevitable failure because you’re a piece of garbage.

Quotes

“The grapes seemed ready to burst with juice...gazed at them”

● Shows the fox’s interest and short obsession of the grapes

“So he walked a short distance...fall short once more”

● Shows the failure of the fox and the point at which he gives up

“Here i am wearing myself out...not worth gaping for”

● Shows the fox’s denial and the moral of the story in which it’s easy to hate what you can’t have.

Mrs. Hadous’s mind every time Alata asks a question

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