YOUNG GOODMAN BROWN, by Nathaniel Hawthorne

HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT

Due Thursday, February 4, 2010

@ 6:00 PM

Young Goodman Brown

(pp. 81-91)

If you are not familiar with Nathaniel Hawthorne, you may find it helpful to listen to the following on-line lecture on Hawthorne and Young Goodman Brown before you read the story (there is also a transcript of the lecture; the link follows):

"Why We Still Read Hawthorne 150 Years Later," by Dr. Pierre A. Walker, Salem State College (2003) (audio)

"Why We Still Read Hawthorne 150 Years Later," by Dr. Pierre A. Walker, Salem State College (2003) (audio transcript)

Read Young Goodman Brown.

You may also listen to an audio reading of the story at this link:

http://www.adamsmithacademy.org/etext/Young_Goodman_Brown.html

Also, here's an online study guide to help you with interpreting the story:

http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/Brown.html#Young%20Goodman%20Brown

Write a First Response to Young Goodman Brown.

You may free-write a response, or use some or all of the following prompts:

*Consider the methods of fiction: tone, plot, characterization, setting, point of view, irony, theme -- which method most affected your response to the literature?

*Do you think Goodman Brown's trip into the woods was a dream/hallucination or real?

*What aspect of the work affected you most? Why?

Provide specific textual details and quotations from the story to justify and/or explain your response to Young Goodman Brown.

Remember, a first response is not a summary -- use 3-5 quotations from the story and tell me how the story affected you.

First Response Guidelines:

*8.5x11-inch paper

*1-inch margins

*typed, double-spaced, Cambria 12 font

*minimum one (1) page; maximum two (2) pages

Upper left-hand corner of the paper, single spaced:

FIRST AND LAST NAME

February 4, 2010

Professor Melinda Roberts

Comp & Lit II: Spring 2010

Centered Title (all caps and bolded):

RESPONSE PAPER: "YOUNG GOODMAN BROWN"