Coffee House 4
Author: Jewels Castillo
After reading the short stories the one I enjoyed the most was young Goodman and your voice was a story told to me by a friend. In the short article a story told to me by a friend it started off sweet and I enjoyed it because one it had talked about two meeting online and it mention two people of the same sex felt a connection the reason I bring this up because I’m college I don’t get articles assigned to me that have to do with people in the same sex who felt a connection with an each other. They have so many things in common that it drew them to each other and they fell in love over text and phone calls. I find it so enjoyable to read because they wanted to meet each other and one flew down to go see the other but the other person wasn’t answering.The final aspect of this short story that I enjoy is the conclusion. I honestly expected a joyful conclusion where the internet buddies were finally able to meet and possibly start a life l together, but one friend drove south simply to meet the person he believed he had so much in common with, but he only met his corpse when he went to the morgue to see him.Â
- The Gothic deals in transgressions and negativity, perhaps in reaction against the optimistic rationalism of its founding era, which allowed for a rethinking of the prohibitions and sanctions that had previously seemed divinely ordained but now appeared to be simple social agreements in the interest of progress and civic stability. (p. 5)
- Behind the states of fear and horror, and driving through the tissue of reasonable and rational explanations, loom the outlines of real horrors. In early Gothic this was sometimes the reality of the oppression of women, or children, in the patriarchy that denied them rights. (p. 8)
- Gothic deals in transgressions and negativity, perhaps in reaction against the optimistic rationalism of its founding era. (Page 5)
- Gothic deals with extreme states of past traumas and guilt. (page 6)
- The true period of gothic’s cultural aesthetics religious and political background was from 1764 to 1824 ( page 4)
Story- An Arranged Marriage
Characters /Amina &Her mother
Paragraph1-Intro- What is Ethics? Ethics also know as moral philosophy. The discipline implicated with what is morally good and bad; and morally right and wrong.Thesis statement Is a character bound by tight restrictions or does he or she defy them?
Paragraph 2 – Some ethical concepts are being used to make character decisions/ talking about a characters ethicsÂ
Paragraph 3 Â Summarizing the scene of when amina is Realizing her family depended on her decisions and also other scenes.
Paragraph 4 What is Globalization? Talk about how Globalization affected the characters in the story.
Paragraph 5 Conclusion and Also brings up thesis statement
Jewels Castillo
Professor Scanlan
ENG 2001: Intro to Fiction
October 18, 2021
Gothic Short Stories Essay
Have you ever felt like you were in a trance, but when you aroused and realized it was a figment of your imagination. Both characters in Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne  and An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce, had experienced this in their stories. They both have summaries within each other because they both felt something that they experienced was reality, but wasn’t. Why were the characters going through this trance? Both texts symbolizes a change; crossing from one place to another place literally or metaphorically and making a change or going through a journey from life and death.
Young Goodman BrownÂ
- Character: Young Goodman Brown
- Setting: In the woods. The era of the Salem Witch trials??? Beg?? Middle?? End??
- Woods- Symbolic symbol? Nature?? Are the woods evil? the darkness of the woods, makes people scared, are the woods evil or are those who travel to the woods are evil and do evil things and leave an energy print of evil.
- The man meeting with brown is he the devil, is he an illusion, is the Brown’s subconscious? Brown is seeing what his town and/or people for they are?
- Faith (wife)- Him being in the woods and thinking of his wife’s faith and trying to hang on to god with his faith. The irony that is wife’s name is faithÂ
- Brown in the woods, the man may be teaching him that the woods shouldn’t be feared but those in the town should. People are not who or what they seem to be. Religion and society are a mask to cover the evil that is being done.Â
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce
- Character:Peyton FarquharÂ
- Setting: SamleÂ
- Bridge: symbolizes from crossing from one place to the otherÂ
- Rivers flow: Is the river symbolic of guiding him to his wife?
- During the process of him getting hanged, maybe him having the thoughts of going home and visiting his wife made him comfort and he image that happening.
Summaries
- Their views of reality were altered due to a traumatic events.Â
- Stories are told after death
- Both are told her the third point of view by the character Young Brown and Peyton Farquhar.
Works Cited
Bierce, Ambrose. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge. THE MILLENNIUM FULCRUM EDITION, 1988.Â
