My Life Is Your Life - 1531 Words

Your life is your life, end of discussion. Every day you wake up, take shower, put on clothes and go to school or work. After a long days’ work you come home, put your jacket down on the dining room table chair, walk into the kitchen, open the fridge, take out something, eat it, then most likely kick back and relax on the couch and drown out in television for the next few hours. Now let’s rewind back to the beginning of the day. Everything you did this morning is something that you learned to do previously, all of the decisions you made during the day were made based off of things that you learned. It’s something that was taught to you or something that you learned. Nevertheless, making decisions, doing everyday tasks and most importantly†¦show more content†¦Let start off with the story of Young Goodman Brown. Goodman Brown says goodbye to his wife, Faith, outside of his house in Salem Village. Faith, who is wearing pink ribbons in her hat, asks him not to leave but instead to stay with her. Brown tells her that he must travel for one night, insists that this trip will make him a better man and tells her to go to bed and to make sure she says her prayers. Brown sets off on a road and into a gloomy forest. He looks around, afraid of what might be behind each tree, thinking, but hoping that there is no sign of Indians or the devil himself lurking there. As he walks through the forest, he sees a man and this man looks normal except his walking stick which has a serpent on it that looks so real it almost moves. The man tells Brown that this stick will make him walk faster. He then sees a woman who he recognizes as a very well respected woman from the village and is shocked to watch as the man revels himself to be the devil and the woman to be a witch. After he is in the forest for a while, a large column of flame arises and as Brown grabs onto the serpent craved walking stick the man had left for him, it pulls him quickly into the vil lage where he sees a figure and eventually realizes that it is Faith and that evil has gotten to her. The next morning when Brown returns to the village he refuses to trust anyone and says he can’t believe the words of the