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1. Why does Mr. Hooper decide to wear a black veil? -Mr. Hooper wanted to wear a black veil to perhaps help him increase his knowledge on the meaning of life and death.As well as to help himself become a better and somewhat wiser minister. " Know then, this veil is a type and a symbol, and I am bound to wear it ever, both in light and darkness, in solitude and before the gaze of multitudes, and as with strangers, so with my familiar friends. No mortal eye will see it withdrawn. This dismal shade must seperate me from the world."(page 11, paragraph four.) Also, " Among all its bad influences, the black veil had the one desirable effect, of making its wearer a very effective clergyman. By the aid of his mysterous emblem-for there was no other apparent cause-he became a man of awful power over souls that were in agony for sin."(page thirteen, paragraph two.)
2. What kind of person is Mr. Hooper? Be specific about his personality. -Mr. Hooper is an eccentric man who wanted nothing more than to gain more knowledge about life after death. " In this manner Mr. Hooper spent a long life, irreproachable in outward act, yet shrouded in dismal suspicions; kind and loving, though unloved...shunned in their health and joy, but ever summoned to their aid in mortal anguish...As years wore on...they called him Father Hooper."(page thirteen, paragraph three.) (Athena Baker)(not final answer.) September 28, 2010 4:37 PM
1. Why does Mr. Hooper decide to wear a black veil? -Mr. Hooper decided to wear a black veil because he wanted to show everyone not to judge others by how they look. He also wanted to show everyone that we all have something to hide within ourselves (that would be our sins.) “His converts always regarded him with a dread peculiar to themselves, affirming, though but figuratively, that, before he brought them to celestial light, they had been with him behind the black veil. Its gloom, indeed, enabled him to sympathize with all dark affections. Dying sinners cried aloud for Mr. Hooper, and would not yield their breath till he appeared..."(page thirteen, paragraph two.) Also, “‘why do you tremble at me alone?' cried he (Mr. Hooper), turning his veiled face round the circle of pale spectators.’Tremble also at each other! Have men avoided me, and women shown no pity, and children screamed and fled, only for my veil? What, but the mystery which is obscurely typifies, has made this piece of crape so awful?' "(Page fifteen, paragraph eight.)
2. What kind of person is Mr. Hooper? -Mr. Hooper is a kind person. At the same time however he is also like a boundary between life and death/good and evil (with him with the crape on.)"In this manner Mr. Hooper spent a long life, irreproachable in outward act, yet shrouded in dismal suspicions; kind and loving, though unloved, and dimly feared; a man apart from men, shunned in their health and joy, but ever summoned to their aid in mortal anguish. As years wore on...he acquired a name...and they call him Father Hooper."(page 13, paragraph three.) (Athena Baker.)
Above is a link to a picture of what Mr. Hooper's veil may look like. Throughtout the entire story, the black veil is believed to be the antagonist of "The Minister's Black Veil" because it represents the repressed emotions of the protagonist(perhaps Mr. Hooper or the whole town that attends church.) The repressed emotions in the story are the inner sins of people because Mr. Hooper(wearing the veil) tried to teach everyone that everyone all have sins and there will be times when everyone must confess to them(whether if someone wants to or not.)
1. Why does Mr. Hooper decide to wear a black veil 2.What kind of person is Mr. Hooper? AVERY DARGIE ~FIRST~ 1. Mr.Cooper, in fact, actually wore the veil in order to teach the townspeople a lesson. What he wants them to understand is that they begin to change around him because he is under this veil, when really when all the children run in fear; Mr. Hooper is still the same great man that he was but just with a veil. Everyone wanted to take off the mask because such mystery stood under that veil that everyone, even his soon to be wife, wanted to know what lies beneath. Fortunately, when Mr. Hooper was on his death bed, he explained the meaning of the veil to the people around him and what the lesson was, so his message was spread. "Have men avoided me, and women shown no pity, and children screamed and fled, only for my black veil? What, but the mystery which it obscurely typifies, has made this piece of crape so awful? When the friend shows his inmost heart to his friend; the lover to his best beloved; when man does not vainly shrink from the eye of his Creator, loathsomely treasuring up the secret of his sin; then deem me a monster, for the symbol beneath which I have lived, and die! I look around me, and, lo! on every visage a Black Veil!" When he was buried, he was buried with the veil on to keep his lesson living, while he was not.
2.What kind of person is Mr. Hooper? Mr.Hooper is a very caring man; he will reach out to people in their most trying periods of their life in order to offer some words of wisdom and encouragement even when he is shunned by the people of his town. Mr.Hooper is also a man who will not give up. Though it is not clearly stated that he is, it is explained in his actions. "It grieved him, to the very depth of his kind heart, to observe how the children fled from his approach, breaking up their merriest sports, while his melancholy figure was yet afar off. Their instinctive dread caused him to feel more strongly than aught else, that a preternatural horror was interwoven with the threads of the black crape." He lives his WHOLE life in this veil in order to teach the people a lesson of not judging people for whats on the outside, but to judge them for who they are as a person. Mr. Hooper gave up a loving wife and friendships in order to do this; he also had to give up the feeling of being liked. That is a hard thing to feel when children run from your very presence. Mr.Hooper is a caring man, who is willing to go to the ends of the earth to teach people a lesson.
1. Why does Mr. Hooper decide to wear a black veil 2.What kind of person is Mr. Hooper?
(ALL GROUP DISCUSSION) 1. Mr. Hooper, I think, wore a black veil to show the repressed feelings of everyone around him. He is showing that everyone has a black veil but it is metophorical, but his is literal. " If it be a sign of mourning,' replied Mr.Hooper, ' I perhaps like most other mortals, have sorrows dark enough to be typified by a black veil." Everyone's repressed feelings meaning that they have sins and sorrows to deal with without anyone knowing. They also believe that Mr.Hooper is some kind of bridge between life and death, "He became a man of awful power over souls that were in agony for sin."Mr. Hooper is attracted to graveyard and he frightens the children when they are playing ball. “Dying sinners cried aloud for Mr. Hooper, and would not yield their breath till he appeared…”(Page 13 paragraph 2). Anyone who is dying around the town is comforted by Mr.Hooper because he offers comfort and forgivness. These people are able to confess their sins to him because they know that he will keep them a secret.
2. What kind of person is Mr.Hooper? Mr. Hooper is a kind person that will go to the end of the earth to teach those people a lesson. Even though, we believe, he went a little overboard on the black veil with trying to scare the kids and people to teach a lesson; it was well worth it because the people understood the lessons he was trying to teach by the end. " Mr. Hooper's face is dust; but awful is still the thought that is mouldered beneath the Black Veil." (Last page). After he is in the veil he is a changed person. Not him himself but the way people percieve him. He is still a loving person, even when he is not loved himself. "IN this manner, Mr. Hooper spend a long life irrapproachable in outward act, yet shrouded in dismal suspicions; kind and loving, though unloved, and dimly feared; a man apart from men, shunned in their health and joy, but ever summoned to their aid in mortal anguish" (WHOLE GROUP DISCUSSION)
1. Why does Mr. Hooper decide to wear a black veil?
He wears the black veil to confront something that everyone is repressing; the fact that everyone has something to hide. He says in the text "I look around me, and, lo! on every visage a Black Veil!" (Page 15 paragraph 6). The black veil could also represent that he is not afraid of death, he knows that everyone has to die or that he is some how in touch with death.
2. What kind of person is Mr. Hooper?
Mr. Hooper seems to be a normal, gentlemanly, quiet preacher, but is separated from everyone else by his black veil. After he begins to wear the veil, his persona switches from that to a mysterious, fear imposing and almost deathly figure.
1. Why does Mr. Hooper decide to wear a black veil?
He wears the black veil to confront something that everyone is repressing; the fact that everyone has something to hide, possibly sin. He says in the text "I look around me, and, lo! on every visage a Black Veil!" (Page 15 paragraph 6). The black veil could also represent that he is not afraid of death, he knows that everyone has to die or that he is some how in touch with death. I also think he wear it to set an example; that everyone should confront their sins, but the parishioners interpret it wrong and see it as him being more than a human being. They could think that he is a sort of bridge between life and death.
2. What kind of person is Mr. Hooper?
Mr. Hooper seems to be a normal, gentlemanly, quiet preacher, but is separated from everyone else by his black veil. After he begins to wear the veil, his persona switches from that to a mysterious, fear imposing and almost deathly figure. The reason I say deathly is because only people who were dying would come in contact with him, younger people and kids would stay clear of him completely. “Dying sinners cried aloud for Mr. Hooper, and would not yield their breath till he appeared…”(Page 13 paragraph 2). Even though he does have a negative presence about him, the book shows that he is just a normal human under the veil. “…kind and loving, though unloved, and dimly feared; a man apart from men, shunned in their health and joy, but ever summoned to their aid in mortal anguish.”(Page 13 paragraph 3)
The link above is supposed to be a sort of picture of a New England church since that was where the story mostly took place. It also gives a sort of reason as to why many of the townspeople in the story were so shocked and frightful of Mr. Hooper's black veil. (Athena Baker.)
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1. Why does Mr. Hooper decide to wear a black veil?
ReplyDelete-Mr. Hooper wanted to wear a black veil to perhaps help him increase his knowledge on the meaning of life and death.As well as to help himself become a better and somewhat wiser minister. " Know then, this veil is a type and a symbol, and I am bound to wear it ever, both in light and darkness, in solitude and before the gaze of multitudes, and as with strangers, so with my familiar friends. No mortal eye will see it withdrawn. This dismal shade must seperate me from the world."(page 11, paragraph four.) Also, " Among all its bad influences, the black veil had the one desirable effect, of making its wearer a very effective clergyman. By the aid of his mysterous emblem-for there was no other apparent cause-he became a man of awful power over souls that were in agony for sin."(page thirteen, paragraph two.)
2. What kind of person is Mr. Hooper? Be specific about his personality.
-Mr. Hooper is an eccentric man who wanted nothing more than to gain more knowledge about life after death. " In this manner Mr. Hooper spent a long life, irreproachable in outward act, yet shrouded in dismal suspicions; kind and loving, though unloved...shunned in their health and joy, but ever summoned to their aid in mortal anguish...As years wore on...they called him Father Hooper."(page thirteen, paragraph three.) (Athena Baker)(not final answer.) September 28, 2010 4:37 PM
1. Why does Mr. Hooper decide to wear a black veil?
ReplyDelete-Mr. Hooper decided to wear a black veil because he wanted to show everyone not to judge others by how they look. He also wanted to show everyone that we all have something to hide within ourselves (that would be our sins.) “His converts always regarded him with a dread peculiar to themselves, affirming, though but figuratively, that, before he brought them to celestial light, they had been with him behind the black veil. Its gloom, indeed, enabled him to sympathize with all dark affections. Dying sinners cried aloud for Mr. Hooper, and would not yield their breath till he appeared..."(page thirteen, paragraph two.) Also, “‘why do you tremble at me alone?' cried he (Mr. Hooper), turning his veiled face round the circle of pale spectators.’Tremble also at each other! Have men avoided me, and women shown no pity, and children screamed and fled, only for my veil? What, but the mystery which is obscurely typifies, has made this piece of crape so awful?' "(Page fifteen, paragraph eight.)
2. What kind of person is Mr. Hooper?
-Mr. Hooper is a kind person. At the same time however he is also like a boundary between life and death/good and evil (with him with the crape on.)"In this manner Mr. Hooper spent a long life, irreproachable in outward act, yet shrouded in dismal suspicions; kind and loving, though unloved, and dimly feared; a man apart from men, shunned in their health and joy, but ever summoned to their aid in mortal anguish. As years wore on...he acquired a name...and they call him Father Hooper."(page 13, paragraph three.) (Athena Baker.)
http://bendingoaksenglish3.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/black-veil.jpg
ReplyDeleteAbove is a link to a picture of what Mr. Hooper's veil may look like. Throughtout the entire story, the black veil is believed to be the antagonist of "The Minister's Black Veil" because it represents the repressed emotions of the protagonist(perhaps Mr. Hooper or the whole town that attends church.) The repressed emotions in the story are the inner sins of people because Mr. Hooper(wearing the veil) tried to teach everyone that everyone all have sins and there will be times when everyone must confess to them(whether if someone wants to or not.)
1. Why does Mr. Hooper decide to wear a black veil
ReplyDelete2.What kind of person is Mr. Hooper?
AVERY DARGIE ~FIRST~
1. Mr.Cooper, in fact, actually wore the veil in order to teach the townspeople a lesson. What he wants them to understand is that they begin to change around him because he is under this veil, when really when all the children run in fear; Mr. Hooper is still the same great man that he was but just with a veil. Everyone wanted to take off the mask because such mystery stood under that veil that everyone, even his soon to be wife, wanted to know what lies beneath. Fortunately, when Mr. Hooper was on his death bed, he explained the meaning of the veil to the people around him and what the lesson was, so his message was spread. "Have men avoided me, and women shown no pity, and children screamed and fled, only for my black veil? What, but the mystery which it obscurely typifies, has made this piece of crape so awful? When the friend shows his inmost heart to his friend; the lover to his best beloved; when man does not vainly shrink from the eye of his Creator, loathsomely treasuring up the secret of his sin; then deem me a monster, for the symbol beneath which I have lived, and die! I look around me, and, lo! on every visage a Black Veil!" When he was buried, he was buried with the veil on to keep his lesson living, while he was not.
2.What kind of person is Mr. Hooper?
Mr.Hooper is a very caring man; he will reach out to people in their most trying periods of their life in order to offer some words of wisdom and encouragement even when he is shunned by the people of his town. Mr.Hooper is also a man who will not give up. Though it is not clearly stated that he is, it is explained in his actions. "It grieved him, to the very depth of his kind heart, to observe how the children fled from his approach, breaking up their merriest sports, while his melancholy figure was yet afar off. Their instinctive dread caused him to feel more strongly than aught else, that a preternatural horror was interwoven with the threads of the black crape." He lives his WHOLE life in this veil in order to teach the people a lesson of not judging people for whats on the outside, but to judge them for who they are as a person. Mr. Hooper gave up a loving wife and friendships in order to do this; he also had to give up the feeling of being liked. That is a hard thing to feel when children run from your very presence. Mr.Hooper is a caring man, who is willing to go to the ends of the earth to teach people a lesson.
1. Why does Mr. Hooper decide to wear a black veil
ReplyDelete2.What kind of person is Mr. Hooper?
(ALL GROUP DISCUSSION)
1. Mr. Hooper, I think, wore a black veil to show the repressed feelings of everyone around him. He is showing that everyone has a black veil but it is metophorical, but his is literal. " If it be a sign of mourning,' replied Mr.Hooper, ' I perhaps like most other mortals, have sorrows dark enough to be typified by a black veil." Everyone's repressed feelings meaning that they have sins and sorrows to deal with without anyone knowing. They also believe that Mr.Hooper is some kind of bridge between life and death, "He became a man of awful power over souls that were in agony for sin."Mr. Hooper is attracted to graveyard and he frightens the children when they are playing ball. “Dying sinners cried aloud for Mr. Hooper, and would not yield their breath till he appeared…”(Page 13 paragraph 2). Anyone who is dying around the town is comforted by Mr.Hooper because he offers comfort and forgivness. These people are able to confess their sins to him because they know that he will keep them a secret.
2. What kind of person is Mr.Hooper?
Mr. Hooper is a kind person that will go to the end of the earth to teach those people a lesson. Even though, we believe, he went a little overboard on the black veil with trying to scare the kids and people to teach a lesson; it was well worth it because the people understood the lessons he was trying to teach by the end. " Mr. Hooper's face is dust; but awful is still the thought that is mouldered beneath the Black Veil." (Last page). After he is in the veil he is a changed person. Not him himself but the way people percieve him. He is still a loving person, even when he is not loved himself. "IN this manner, Mr. Hooper spend a long life irrapproachable in outward act, yet shrouded in dismal suspicions; kind and loving, though unloved, and dimly feared; a man apart from men, shunned in their health and joy, but ever summoned to their aid in mortal anguish"
(WHOLE GROUP DISCUSSION)
CYPRESS AUSTIN -FIRST
ReplyDelete1. Why does Mr. Hooper decide to wear a black veil?
He wears the black veil to confront something that everyone is repressing; the fact that everyone has something to hide. He says in the text "I look around me, and, lo! on every visage a Black Veil!" (Page 15 paragraph 6). The black veil could also represent that he is not afraid of death, he knows that everyone has to die or that he is some how in touch with death.
2. What kind of person is Mr. Hooper?
Mr. Hooper seems to be a normal, gentlemanly, quiet preacher, but is separated from everyone else by his black veil. After he begins to wear the veil, his persona switches from that to a mysterious, fear imposing and almost deathly figure.
CYPRESS AUSTIN -SECOND TIME
ReplyDelete1. Why does Mr. Hooper decide to wear a black veil?
He wears the black veil to confront something that everyone is repressing; the fact that everyone has something to hide, possibly sin. He says in the text "I look around me, and, lo! on every visage a Black Veil!" (Page 15 paragraph 6). The black veil could also represent that he is not afraid of death, he knows that everyone has to die or that he is some how in touch with death. I also think he wear it to set an example; that everyone should confront their sins, but the parishioners interpret it wrong and see it as him being more than a human being. They could think that he is a sort of bridge between life and death.
2. What kind of person is Mr. Hooper?
Mr. Hooper seems to be a normal, gentlemanly, quiet preacher, but is separated from everyone else by his black veil. After he begins to wear the veil, his persona switches from that to a mysterious, fear imposing and almost deathly figure. The reason I say deathly is because only people who were dying would come in contact with him, younger people and kids would stay clear of him completely. “Dying sinners cried aloud for Mr. Hooper, and would not yield their breath till he appeared…”(Page 13 paragraph 2). Even though he does have a negative presence about him, the book shows that he is just a normal human under the veil. “…kind and loving, though unloved, and dimly feared; a man apart from men, shunned in their health and joy, but ever summoned to their aid in mortal anguish.”(Page 13 paragraph 3)
http://www.townsendbooks.com/graphics/tb22836.jpg
ReplyDeleteThe link above is supposed to be a sort of picture of a New England church since that was where the story mostly took place. It also gives a sort of reason as to why many of the townspeople in the story were so shocked and frightful of Mr. Hooper's black veil. (Athena Baker.)