Analyzing the longer works we’ve read and Young Goodman Brown I have picked up on a similarity between moments that each main character shares. Pickman, Prendick and Brown has had a moment before their descent into the darkly lit ruin, or when they are grimly received onto an island of horrors. Brown has a similar moment analyzing his guild through the forest “But the only thing about him, that could be fixed upon as remarkable, was his staff, which bore the likeness of a great black snake, so curiously wrought, that it might almost be seen to twist and wriggle itself like a living serpent. This, of course, must have been an ocular deception, assisted by the uncertain light. ‘Come, Goodman Brown!’ cried his fellow-traveler, ‘this is a dull pace for the beginning of a journey…’ (P.g.19)” Here, we as the reader can get a glimpse of Brown’s fate at the end of his journey even if the main character cannot. We get a hint of the mystery that awaits him, and the sinister nature of his guild at the least, clearly articulated by the staff he carried which resembled a snake. I think that this passage is worth going back to and reviewing as it holds much symbolic value for each character as well as stylistic value to interpret for each author. If we take time to interpret these segments of common beginnings, we can also get our first look into the minds of our main characters. These moments are also important turns in the story so they may serve as a subject for analyzing plot as well.