Week of September 27th--Gothic Literature!
With your blog group, develop 2 level two questions that reflect your reading of Hawthorne's "The Minister's Black Veil"; you must also respond thoughtfully to these 2 level two questions! Remember, you should post these 2 level two questions, then respond to them. You are expected to refine and inform your blog at least three times throughout the week.
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 No mortal eye will see it withdrawn.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.)
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