Mari’s ideas

               Many ideas come from people remembering their most fearful dreams however, when it comes down to their most loving and peaceful ones no one really seems to remember them. In the short story “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, he gives us the reader to imagine whether this story was just a dream or reality. The poem “Dream Within a Dream” by Edgar Allen Poe talks about how a dream can make you wish your dreams don’t become reality, and create  fantasy into your life. The story gives you examples on how a dream that seems real can change your way of seen things. In the poem it shows how people would rather dream and hold on to them longer. Although, this short story and poem seems to have things in common they also have great differences.              The short story of “Young Goodman Brown” was written to show that everyone isn’t always who they seem to be. In the beginning young Goo...

What I understand from the poem “Dream Within a Dream” is that it seems hard to understand what is a dream and what it real life. It is also really hard to remember what your dream was about even after you just woke up. No matter how had you try to remember it the less you seem to know what you were dreaming about and even the most basic details about it. The author also want to show how he would like to hold on to them for a long period of time so he can remember at least the good things in life, even if that comes from just a dream.

What I learned from the story “Young Goodman Brown” was that it gave us a good example about how some people lose their trust to certain types of people, by the actions they do. Young Goodman Brown had complete trust towards the minister,  Goody Cloyse,  Deacon  Gookin, and his wife. His faith/trust disappeared when he found out each one of those people he once admired were not the people they seemed to be. 

From the story “Young Goodman Brown” what came to my understanding from the story so far, was that at first Goodman Brown was going to leave his “Faith” at home and walk into the woods. While he was walking a man that looked like his father was caring a staff. While they were both walking Goodman Brown was hesitant to continue walking through the woods. When they were walking Goodman Brown saw the minister, Deacon Gookin and Goody Cloyse, he trusted all three of them because, they were all Christians. However, when he continued walking he saw that all three of them had a dark side and that they had betrayed his trust. At this time Goodman Brown has afraid, until he heard the voice of his “Faith” he wanted to know there it was coming from, until it faded. From the sky a pink ribbon fell onto the floor, when that happens Goodman Brown lost his faith completely. At that moment Goodman Brown belived that there was nothing good on earth, so he decided to become evil.

As an independent learner I believe that it makes me understand a topic more. I can take as much time I want on a specific topic, without anyone telling me to rush my learning process. I feel like I can gather important information when I do my own research. When I become a independent learner it feels like it makes me more motivated and responsible as a person. It motivates me because I know what I need to improve on and I find ways to get better. It also makes me responsible because I know what I need to understand and how to increase my learning in anyway.

Today I learned what the meaning of “Dinner with the Devil” meant in history class. I learned that is was a gathering to discuss the issues of the government, that included Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison. Hamilton needed to change Madison’s mind because he needed the House of Representatives to support his idea. Hamilton believed that the debts were a blessing, which makes the country come together.

Literature is the collecting writings of a group of people. In the beginning most people told story’s by word of mouth. The Colonial literature was written by the government or church, they would threaten  people by showing them what the wrongs were, and to make sure people didn’t do them.