YOUNG GOODMAN BROWN by Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Faith kept me back a while" Faith is the name of his wife but it seems to be more symbolic than that. When he says this it sounds like the hand of faith was the reason for his delay, and that act helped lead to the events that later followed in this reading. B y being held back by his wife and not just leaving it gave him more to think about and more time to think about it.

"replied he of the serpent" This is used to describe his companion. The serpent describes an untrustworthy trickster of evil. As that of which is used in Adam and Eve. This tells the reader his companion is evil and not to be trusted, his words are poison.

"potato blows are as good as violets, as teh farmer thinks. This shows that some people like farmers who value the potato for the walth and food it grants them as much as violets which most common people like for its looks.

"Tide leaves some deposit on these pages as it leavs sand and shells on the shore." This talkes about how the tide when it comes in brings with it shells and sand and then leavs it on the beach. This writer was hoping that is gernal would be washed ashore (figurativly speaking) and be of some use.

Paper topic number 2 "Comparison. Emerson and Thoreau are the most recognizable proponents of Transcendentalism, but each emphasized different features of the movement. Take some aspect of their thought or writing and explore the similarities and differences their works exhibit. In the process, you should arrive at a clearer understanding of Transcendentalism in general and these two writers in particular. Topics to consider include self-reliance, individualism, and the importance of nature."

Selection from Waldon chapter "Where I Lived, and What I Lived For". by Henry David Thoreau
*We do not ride on the railroad; it rides on us.
1. This quote is very important and makes perfect sence depending on how its looked at. Man makes railroad's for transportation and for money but if we didnt desire to travel and expand but just stay at home these railroad's wouldnt be made. By wanting to expand and see new things we create railroads and maintain them. Without these desires though there wouldant be any railroads. So the fact that there are railroads is because of us.

*If you have built a castle in the air, your work will not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them....
2. This tells us that if a person gets an idea and has it in the air dont forget about it try to find away to make the idea work. Use the resources avalible to make the things you desire come true. Dont just right something off like its never going to happen. Work hard and make it happen.

Quotes: 1 and 2 Ralph Waldo Emerson from "Self-Reliance"
1. (A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but when he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.) This quote is very true and can be related to quite easly. When a person has to get a job done and they do it right away they feel acomplished and happy that theyve done the job and done it well and that there labour will be rewarded in the days to come. If a person puts the job off then it keep luming over there heads and they'll never feel completly at peace knowing theres more work to be done.
2. (These are the voices we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaubidle as we enter into the world.) This talks about when a person is alone they start to think aboiut how society is created and how it all works and all the flaws with it. They also think about what they believe in and what sets them apart. As soon as they return to society though these thoughts deminish and they join all the other people to engroused in what there doing to just take a step back and think and become ones self.

Quotes: 3 and 4 Nature from "Nature"
3.(If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the rememberance of the city of God which had been shown.) If the stars only happened everyonce in a while it would be a monumentious event a dazaling display on which preachers and men of god would use as proof of the existance of heaven. We would all stay up at night and just watch them not knowing what to say, just staring in wonder and amazement. By the stars being an everynight thing we do not think to much about them and there not spoken of that much. If they where once in a thousand years then it would be a bigger and more phantastic festivle than anything recorded in the history of the human race.
4.(To speak truley, few adult persons can see nature.) This tells us that as adults we do not have the time to enjoy the simpelar things in life that we did when we where kids. All those summers where time was endless a child often thought and got intune with nature. Once that child grows up though and starts to deal with the corperate world there is no time for these things and he just becomes another pond on the chest board of a majour company.

I would like to have a good year 85% average. Intresting class with good lessons. Would really like to read good books that do not relate to the format of killerangles.