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Anthony Tufaro

American literature 

Dr. Heiniger

9/7/2016

            February 1675, Lancaster, the Indians came over the hill on to a settlement where Mary Rowlandson was living. The time was about sunrise when the Indians attacked. They came across Mary’s house and bunkered themselves around it then opening fire upon the house injuring one of the men who was with them then another and then another. Mary asks “god what shall they do?”. Mary’s sister, still in the house, came out standing in the door saying “And lord let me die with them.” And right as she finished saying that she was shot and killed instantly. Mary standing there in the middle of this all holding her dying child an Indian comes riding up to her and said if you come with us, we will not hurt you. So Mary gets on the back of the horse and they ride off over the hill and kept riding. They road for about a mile until they came upon a deserted village that used to have English settlers in it until they left for fear of the native Americans.

It all started the tenth of February, 1675. Mary (Charlize Thurman) was sitting down at breakfast with her family and a few neighbors from down the road. When all of the sudden they hear faint screams and yells. Mary rushed to the window where she sees an army of Indians rushing down the hill towards the settlement. She screams the people sitting there “go, get in the other room and hide!” they all run to the other room and she is still watching out the window.

A man turns around to see this large warrior Indian (Jason Momoa) riding quickly towards him with a hammer light tool in his hand. The man puts his hands up with a face full of fear and the Indian rides by and smashes his head with the mallet. Then as he rides he jumps off and as he’s landing hits another man a top his head. An Indian pulls a family of five out of a nearby house and puts them on there knees and hits the mother father and one of the children before other Indian (Jason Momoa) gets over and yells to stop, he says “spare these other two children and bring them with us.” The Indian picks up the children and gets on his horse and rides off. As he’s riding off anther Indian rides in and while riding Mary’s brother in law shoots him right off his horse killing him before he hit the ground. The Indian (Jason Momoa) looks over and sees the house where the fire has come from.

Other Indians surround a barn where a bunch of people were hiding out. Some people inside got scared and could hear them surrounding them so they screamed “we have to get out of here” they opened the barn doors and were shot almost immediately. Some of the Indians climbed up to the roof and shot down into the barn killing everyone else that stayed in there. 

Warrior Indian (Jason Momoa) called over the rest of the Indians and told them to open fire on the house that Mary was in with the rest of the people. They opened fired killed three men right as is started. Mary’s brother in law was shot but not dead so he started firing back. He could see the Indians surrounding the house she he thought the best option would be to run so Mary picked up her child and her and her brother in law ran out the door. Her brother in law got shot as soon as he ran out and was killed. Mary made it a few more feet then a shot rang out. Peircing through her child into her side. Mary dropped to the ground with child in hand. Mary’s nephew ran out to try to help but an Indian was waiting near the front door and struck him in the head killing him right there. Mary’s older sister Erica (Helen Hunt) stood up and started walking to the door after seeing all of this and gets to right before the door and says “ and lord let me die with the…” and as she walked through the door she gets shot in the head and was killed instantly. Mary’s screams “God no” and stands up. She starts to pray. Standing in the middle of the fire just sitting there praying, bullets flying by people dying she’s just standing there praying. Warrior Indian (Jason Momoa) gets on his horse and rides over to Mary and puts out his hand, “Come with me and a promise we will not hurt you anymore.” She thinks about it for a minute looks back at her sister lying dead on the ground and then looks back at the warrior standing over her, she says “fine”, he pulls her up on the horse, and they leave the town. 

The underlying theme in my film and basically throughout the whole story of Mary was God. I made it my theme because I think it was a powerful message and a powerful part of the story. Throughout the whole story she keeps relying on God and praying to God. She never varies from the path of God and she never questioned God. She just follows and prays to him constantly. I kept hinting at the theme of God by making Mary pray all the time. Whenever she could, she would try to get those few extra words in with God. I didn’t want to come out and blatantly say it because I didn’t want to try and push that on any audience. I wanted to have them think about it and try and figure it out on their own. 

I chose these actors very specifically, I really like the actors and actresses I chose. I chose Charlie Thurman because I think she is a wonderful actress and when I picture Mary I picture a Paler blonde woman who looks like she could have been and immigrant and I think that Charlize fits that picture. I chose Helen hunt because she is also a very good actress and I think that those two (Charlize and Helen) look similar and can pull off being siblings. I really don’t like when movies make siblings look nothing alike it really gets me upset. Finally I chose Jason Momoa because I think he portrays a warrior very well. He has been in other shows and movies as a warrior and I think he did a wonderful job in them. He is also Native American and I wanted it to be pretty authentic. Jason is ruthless but at the same time he has a kind part about him that makes you want to like him and makes you want to think that he isn’t going to be that bad of a guy in the movie.

Anthony Tufaro

10-3-16

Dr. Heiniger

                                                            Goodman Brown Talks With Faith

            The story of Goodman brown is about a man who goes into the woods when he comes upon a traveler who w later find out might be the devil. They talk for a while and the devil tries to convince Goodman brown to sin and to give up his “faith.” Goodman brown struggles with this for a while and doesn’t know what to do and then the devil takes him to a service filled with all of Goodman browns old religious mentor’s and people he looked up too. Goodman brown leaves and basically lives the rest of his life as a skeptical, very sad and angry man.  Nathanial Hawthorne uses many symbols throughout Goodman brown including a pink ribbon a top “faiths” head, faith as a wife or the actual thing, the staff being carried by the traveler, bringing Goodman browns father and grandfather into it and Goodman’s mentors.  

            Faith in the story of Goodman brown plays multiple different roles. In plain sight it seems like she is just his wife but if you pay attention to the clues hidden in the writing it seems she might be something more. Like the fact that he never blatantly states that it’s a name he uses the name in the beginning of sentences so that it has to be capitalized. Goodman brown has to leave his wife “faith” to go into these dark woods to go meet the “devil.” That could mean he has to literally leave his wife or that he has to figuratively leave his faith, his religion to go see the devil, creator of sin.  Seen here "Faith kept me back a while," replied the young man, with a tremor in his voice, caused by the sudden appearance of his companion, though not wholly unexpected.” In the twelfth paragraph of good man brown. Goodman struggled with leaving Faith, this means that he could have been struggling with leaving his wife or that he struggled with leaving his actual faith, his actual religion to go see the devil and to go talk with the thing he was brought up his whole life despising

Goodman brown leaves his wife “faith” for the woods early on in the story and one this that was said multiple times throughout the goodbyes and basically the whole story was the pink ribbons on Faiths head. This ribbon could symbolize a mixture of purity and maybe some “acting out.” It could mean that Goodman brown is usually a faithful and very strict on his religious views but sometimes he could stray from that path and act out with things that might not be seen as very religious or right in the eyes of the puritans.  

The devil is carrying a 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 staff isn’t just a staff it has the appearance of a serpent. Given that this is the devil and he is the creator of sin, this serpent could symbolize the first sin. The sin of Adam and eve in the Garden of Eden when the serpent snuck in and had Adam and eve eat the apple.

Later on in the story Goodman brown begins to doubt that he should be doing this and the devil respond with “I helped your grandfather, the constable, when he lashed the Quaker woman so smartly through the streets of Salem; and it was I that brought your father a pitch-pine knot, kindled at my own hearth, to set fire to an Indian village, in King Philip's war. They were my good friends…”(eighteenth paragraph in)  trying to convince good man brown that he can do it. This says that the devil helps the father and the grandfather commit sins that Goodman didn’t know about. This doesn’t just open Goodman’s eyes to the fact that if his father and grandfather can do it that he can but it is a symbol to show that anyone can commit sin and anytime and that mostly every one commits sin at one point or another in their lifetime.

Throughout the story of Goodman brown we go through this journey with him of weather to commit sin or not and to go with the devil or not. We never really find out if this is all a dream we know that he comes back to the village and finds faith again but we don’t know if he was just dreaming everything that happened. Either way it makes him a very cynical person for the rest of his life all the way up to his death.  

Anthony Tufaro

10-3-16

Dr. Heiniger

                                                            Goodman Brown Talks With Faith

            The story of Goodman brown is about a man who goes into the woods when he comes upon a traveler who w later find out might be the devil. They talk for a while and the devil tries to convince Goodman brown to sin and to give up his “faith.” Goodman brown struggles with this for a while and doesn’t know what to do and then the devil takes him to a service filled with all of Goodman browns old religious mentor’s and people he looked up too. Goodman brown leaves and basically lives the rest of his life as a skeptical, very sad and angry man.  Nathanial Hawthorne uses many symbols throughout Goodman brown including a pink ribbon a top “faiths” head, faith as a wife or the actual thing, the staff being carried by the traveler, bringing Goodman browns father and grandfather into it and Goodman’s mentors.  

            Faith in the story of Goodman brown plays multiple different roles. In plain sight it seems like she is just his wife but if you pay attention to the clues hidden in the writing it seems she might be something more. Like the fact that he never blatantly states that it’s a name he uses the name in the beginning of sentences so that it has to be capitalized. Goodman brown has to leave his wife “faith” to go into these dark woods to go meet the “devil.” That could mean he has to literally leave his wife or that he has to figuratively leave his faith, his religion to go see the devil, creator of sin.  Seen here "Faith kept me back a while," replied the young man, with a tremor in his voice, caused by the sudden appearance of his companion, though not wholly unexpected.” In the twelfth paragraph of good man brown. Goodman struggled with leaving Faith, this means that he could have been struggling with leaving his wife or that he struggled with leaving his actual faith, his actual religion to go see the devil and to go talk with the thing he was brought up his whole life despising

Goodman brown leaves his wife “faith” for the woods early on in the story and one this that was said multiple times throughout the goodbyes and basically the whole story was the pink ribbons on Faiths head. This ribbon could symbolize a mixture of purity and maybe some “acting out.” It could mean that Goodman brown is usually a faithful and very strict on his religious views but sometimes he could stray from that path and act out with things that might not be seen as very religious or right in the eyes of the puritans. 

The devil is carrying a 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 staff isn’t just a staff it has the appearance of a serpent. Given that this is the devil and he is the creator of sin, this serpent could symbolize the first sin. The sin of Adam and eve in the Garden of Eden when the serpent snuck in and had Adam and eve eat the apple.

Later on in the story Goodman brown begins to doubt that he should be doing this and the devil respond with “I helped your grandfather, the constable, when he lashed the Quaker woman so smartly through the streets of Salem; and it was I that brought your father a pitch-pine knot, kindled at my own hearth, to set fire to an Indian village, in King Philip's war. They were my good friends…”(eighteenth paragraph in)  trying to convince good man brown that he can do it. This says that the devil helps the father and the grandfather commit sins that Goodman didn’t know about. This doesn’t just open Goodman’s eyes to the fact that if his father and grandfather can do it that he can but it is a symbol to show that anyone can commit sin and anytime and that mostly every one commits sin at one point or another in their lifetime.

Throughout the story of Goodman brown we go through this journey with him of weather to commit sin or not and to go with the devil or not. We never really find out if this is all a dream we know that he comes back to the village and finds faith again but we don’t know if he was just dreaming everything that happened. Either way it makes him a very cynical person for the rest of his life all the way up to his death. 

This image shows a part of young good man browns story. It shows him down on the ground hands and knees almost defeated. There are multiple demons in the trees looking over him. This changes the story a little bit because in the story because in the story we really only hear and read about the two demons one being the actual devil and the other being sort of his right hand man. This shows that he is sort of being held down or put down by these demons.

The forest in this picture actually looks like its helping g the demons and becoming part of the story and becoming alive. This wasn’t in the actual story of young Goodman brown but it puts more of a twist on the story. This picture makes it seem like the demons have power over non-living objects to make them come alive to help them. This actually looks like the forest and the demons are closing in on him.

This image is a little more bright and vibrant then the other one. This picture shows young Goodman brown walking out of the forest after, what we can assume, he met the devil. I think it matters a lot that this picture is bright because it shows a different mood then if it was darker. I think that means that everything might not look as gloomy as first portrayed. With the use of more colorful and vibrant paints and colors shows that maybe the world is not as warped as it may seem to be in the story but it is actually the view that young Goodman brown has on the world and how he feels about the world. His views after the encounter with the devil have made him gloomy and sad but that encounter did not actually change the world right then and there.

In this picture he is walking past the pink ribbon and just continues walking with his head sort of down. That shows that he might have given up on faith and that he doesn’t really want to deal with it any more. Symbolically is would seem that he is walking away from his faith or maybe emotionally leaving his wife faith.

The fire in the background could be at the devils congregation. In that case it would mean a lot to see young Goodman brown walking towards it. It would show that he is leading towards the fire and giving in to the devil. In this picture with his head down he seems reluctant to go towards it but he is still walking towards it. He also has a staff it his hand and in the story it never mentions that he has a staff so that leads us to believe that it is the devils staff and maybe its leading him to the congregation.