a central theme of "young goodman brown" is that it's better to be lucky than good.

a) true
b) false

The correct answer is False

Explanation:

"Young Goodman Brown" is a short story written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published in 1835. In this short story the events take place in New England during the 19th century ruled by Puritans where the main character called Goodman Brown decides to leave his wife to travel for a night and go into the forest, where he meets a strange old man and find himself in a strange ceremony with his wife, as a result he becomes a completely different person as he loses faith not knowing if that happened in the forest was real or not. Thus, this short story does not deal with luck but with the meaning of faith and evilness, due to this the central theme is not it's better to be lucky than good as it was not lucky what influenced Young Goodman behavior but evilness and lack of faith.



question

discuss the two key differences between the prose form of sojourner truth’s speech and the poetic version. use evidence from both texts to support your response.

the correct answer is d. a discussion of specific uses of alliteration

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when you are critiquing or evaluating a poem, you will mostly pay attention to the theme, as well as figures of speech and rhythm. alliteration is a figure of speech where consonants are repeated in neighboring words - and it is important for analysis of sound and rhythm, which is why it might appear in the evaluation of that poem.