"Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In the story "Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthrone, the author twists ordinary images in order to show the reader that they should keep their guard up against immoral influences that are in the world all around them. This story is an allegory dealing with people's morals in life. The story takes place in a puritan town in Salem back when there believed to be witches. Goodman Browns grandfather and relatives took part in killing and beating the witches in town. The story starts out on a cold night where Goodman Brown sets out into the woods for a long journey.
"He had taken a dreary road, darkened by all the gloomiest trees of the forest, which barely stood aside to let the narrow path creep through, and closed immediately behind." …