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1.How does the setting add to the meaning of the story: sunset and night, dreary road, gloomiest trees, narrow path creeping through, lonely, peculiarity in solitude? How does this imagery create the mood? How does this mood help us predict the nature of Young Goodman Brown’s journey?

It starts off the story to be very dark and scary. Almost foreshadowing what is to come.

2.Discuss the significance of "Faith kept me back awhile."

This has a double meaning, faith meaning his wife didnt want him to leave, and also meaning that his faith was keeping him from going as well.

3.Why do you think Faith wore pink ribbons? Hint: think of the connotation of colors.

Because pink is very innocent. 

4.Discuss the significance of the second traveller (sic.), ". . . apparently in the same rank of life as Goodman Brown and bearing a considerable resemblance to him, though perhaps more in expression than features. Still they might have been taken for father and son." Is he Brown’s alter ego?

I think the second traveller is the devil trying to project into an image that Brown would trust, god created man in his own image

5.Interpret the description of the staff "which bore the likeness of a great black snake, so curiously wrought that it might almost be seen to twist and wriggle like a living serpent. This, of course, must have been an ocular deception, assisted by the uncertain light." Why the uncertainty?

The staff means the devil from the story of adam and eve.

6. When the fellow traveller states, "I have been well acquainted with your family... I helped your grandfather, the constable, when he lashed the Quaker woman so smartly through the streets of Salem. ... The deacons of many a church have drunk wine with me; the select men of divers town make me their chairman; and a majority of the Great and General Court are firm believers of my interest," what do we begin to understand about him? Though this character, what is Hawthorne telling us about evil?

This shows Brown that his family isn't as innocent and pure as he thought. people are all evil

7. Discuss the meaning(s): "My Faith is gone!”

Meaning he lost hope and his wife. 

8.Describe what Goodman Brown saw when he arrived at the meeting – the grave, reputable, and pious people, the chaste dames and dewy virgins, the revered pastor, and that the good "shrank not from the wicked." Discuss the meaning.

He saw many people he once trusted from town, and revealed them to be evil and all part of a coven.

9.The dark figure states, "Welcome, my children, to the communion of your race. Ye have found thus young your nature and your destiny." What do you think this means?

That they are all witches and they have all found each other, all going to be evil 

10.  How does Goodman Brown treat people the next day? What happens to him? Why?

He is hesitant, and nervous. Brown has lost all hope.

11."Young Goodman Brown" is a moral allegory. Essentially, an allegory is an extended metaphor using one thing to represent another – a story with dual meanings. Therefore, there is a surface or literal meaning as well as a secondary meaning. In other words, Hawthorne uses this moral allegory to reveal a moral lesson or lessons. Discuss the moral lesson(s) you discover in the story.

That not everybody is what they seem. And that you can find this out in harsh and cruel ways, just like on real life.