They continue on the journey discussing Brown’s father and grandfather and how they came through the woods many times. While continuing their walk through the woods the second traveler is greeted by a woman from the Salem village ,“the devil (551)”. Goodman Brown recognizes the woman to be Goody Cloyse. She and the devil have a discussion about a witch recipe and the meeting that is being held later that night. Brown tried to remain faithful to his beliefs and cries out to the sky “ with heaven above , and Faith below, I will yet stand firm against the devil (553) ”.
Of Mice and Men Summary Chapter One - Two workers, living in the depressing times of The Great Depression; George Milton and Lennie Small are first seen resting in a clearing which is located near the river. After this they plan to go to a nearby ranch where they expect some work. They had left the last ranch in a desperate hurry because Lennie was involved in an incident, Lennie also always asked George to tell him about their dream ranch and about the rabbits. Chapter Two - After Chapter One, George and Lennie finally reach the ranch where they will be working temporarily, they are quickly shown to the bunk house and are introduced to Candy (an old swamper with only one hand). Also Curley and the Boss is introduced, who at first was suspicious of George who wouldn't let Lennie talk during their interview.
The lady of the house asks that they please leave because De Spain is not home. The father takes one last look around the room before pivoting on his good foot and leaving the house with Sarty on his heels. Much later, a man arrives on horseback toting a rug, slung over his shoulder. Sarty recognizes this rug as the one that they had been standing on when they talked to the woman in De Spain’s home. The black man carrying the rug tells Sarty’s father that he has ruined the rug with the mud from his boots and De Spain asks that he either clean it or pay one-hundred dollars.
Ever since I was in High School, two of my favorite short stories have always been “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson and “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathanial Hawthorne. The plot of both of these stories keep the readers entertained and sitting on the edge of their seats. In the story Young Goodman Brown, a man takes a journey through the forest and appears to comes face to face with the devil himself. In this forest, he finds out that leaders in his church, his wife and even his father have become associated with the devil. He wakes up the next morning and was obviously changed by one event doubting the sincereity in everyone around him.
Momaday has a void in his life from missing his grandmother’s final days and her funeral, but he takes a specific path to her grave that he may have felt would help him understand things like customs and stories of the Kiowa people. On his journey he aimed to collect first hand experience of everything he knew about his ancestry and to symbolically end it at the resting place of the last Kiowa, his grandmother. On his pilgrimage he visits things like the Black Hills that his grandmother spoke of but had never seen. He went back with the intent of experiencing the things his grandmother talked about in stories for himself, as well and seeing things from a now older and more knowledgeable point of view. It was a sort of investigative report on his ancestors where he really took his time to experience everything for himself and interpret what was told to him by his grandmother.
Of Mice and Men- How is the character of Candy important to the novel as a whole? The novella 'Of Mice and Men' was written by John Steinbeck in 1937. It was set at the time of the Great Depression in America, during which there was widespread poverty and long term unemployment.The novella begins with two itinerant workers; George and Lennie traveling to a ranch in hope of work. It is here that they meet many other characters including Candy 'an old swamper'. Through the character of Candy, John Steinbeck takes the readers on journey through which they see the difficulties facing the older members of society at that time.
Anse decides that pouring cement all over Cash’s leg will help the break, smart huh?(*sarcasticly). He then mortgages everything he owns and sells Jewel’s special horse in order to buy a new team of mules. When the family rests for the night at Gillespie’s farm, Darl burns the barn down in order to try and cremate his own mother, but is unsuccessful. When the family finally arrives in Jefferson, Dewey Dell tries to get an abortion, but is instead forced into sex by a younger poor excuse of a man pretending to be a doctor. Then her father takes the money she needs to use to get a real abortion in order to buy himself a new set of teeth.
When they get to the border, Blevins ends up catching back up with the men. Rawlins has a bad feeling about this kid and believes the horses he is riding he stole. The three boys cross the border and set out to find a ranch to work on. The come to this little town where they stop for a drink, turns out its alcohol and they get drunk. They leave a keep riding then Blevins’s fells off his horse.
Is George justified in killing Lennie? John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men is a short novel about two friends, quick-witted George and dim-witted Lennie. (ef fram kemur af hverju þeir eru samtvinnaðir væri got að koma því að) They are both gauchos moving together from ranch to ranch looking for work but Lennie’s screwups cause them to be on the run consistently. They have a dream about a little farm of their own where they can reap their own harvest and keep rabbits and that’s what keeps them going in a hard life, although it is pretty obvious these are just pipe dreams. The story happens mainly at a ranch nearby the Salinas River in the state of California.
In “The Leader of the People” Jody is a young boy who lives on a ranch with his mother and father. He is a boy with lots of energy and seems to get into mischief all around the ranch. His latest idea was to kill all of the mice that were living in an old haystack. His mind was just racing with ideas until he sees his father riding back on a horse with a letter. He runs to the house and finds out that his grandfather is coming into town.