In Young Goodman Brown, it starts out seeming like a story of a man who will end up being a hero while on his quest out into the forest as we see so many times in literature. The beginning seems very cliche in the way he says goodbye to his wife and tells her everything is going to be okay which I should have known better than to assume such a thing while reading Hawthorne. I noticed a couple of different plot twists throughout the story. When Mr. Goodman encounters the man with the staff, it seems as if it is following the same pattern of most stories of a hero conquering a quest. When I read more about this man's staff how it resembled a serpent, and alarm went off in my mind due to the nine years I have spent in Catholic school. It seems as if this part of the story was an allusion to the Bible story of Jesus being tempted in the desert. I don't know, maybe I'm the only one who thinks that. The theme of the store really lies in the topic of the corruptibility of Puritan ideals and religious values and how susceptible the are to giving into the the evil in the world. Goodman Brown is an example of Hawthorne's idea that morals in a society based off of religious belief is weak and corruptible because nobody holds true to their own values. Rather, they follow what they see everyone else doing. Another fascinating plot twist is when he sees Goody Cloyse, the minister, Deacon Gookin, and his wife Faith have all done their deal with the devil so to speak, and he decides to do the same because he is following their example. Hawthorne structured the plot of this story in such a way that it sets up the reader to be surprised for the changing events and descriptions of the characters and setting. I see the tone as satirical in the way that it makes a mockery of the whole Puritan society and their dedication to morals based off their religion. It shows that that this time period did not encourage much independent thinking at all. When reading this story I am confused for a good portion of it during the middle parts. The diction is very complex to me because, well, I am not a reader from the 1800s. After really thinking about what I have read, however, I understood more and more which lead to surprises in the story. The ending was the biggest surprise for me because I did not see Goodman Brown's wife Faith turning out to be evil. I thought of her as a picture of innocence in this story.