the malform'd limbs are tied to the surgeons table, what is removed drops horribly in a pail; the quadroon girl is sold at the auction-stand..... the opium eater reclines with rigid head and just opened lips, the prostitute daggles her shawl, her bonnet bobs on her tipsy and pimpled neck.....

it stroke me as awfull that the writter throws these images inbetween the normal every day stuff he was jst talking about, but i think that is kind of the point, that as horrilbe as this may sound it is every day stuff.



i bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass i love, if you want me again look for me under your boot-soles

i think that this reading is supposed to be about the earth and how it is always a part of our lives....

alone far in the wilds and mountains I hunt, wandering at my own lightness and glee...
this quote told me that he was a transcendentalist right away because emmerson wrote that in tho woods your inner child comes out and gives you energy, now this is oviously and old guy so the woods bringing enrgy to him makes him a transcendentalism.

for every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you....
i interpreted this quote as the author telling us that we are all the same, and by being parts of each other we need each other to survive.

the black veil, though it covers only our pastor's face, throws its influence over his whole person, and makes him ghostlike from head to foot.

this quote kinda means to me anyways that when we cant see a persons face its like theyre someone else, every time we are talking to someone were looking at their face and if you take that away its like you cant really communicate in the same way...

young goodman brown

"there might be a devilish indian behind every tree"
this states that this author simply doesnt like nature nearly as much as transcendentalists.

"faith kept me back a while"

this seemed normal untill i realize that the guy that was waiting was the devil. then i read it again and i realized what it meant, and its that faith is better than evil.

this story was about a men walking through the woods with the devil, didnt really understand so by the part that the devil kills the old lady that used to teach cathequism to goodman i coulnt keep up with the reading.