The Hunger Artist/ Young Goodman Brown

The Hunger Artist
I thought that this was a good story. Its about a man that lies in a cage where he does not eat. In the begining he had many spectators. Many of which did not believe he was really not eating. But many people were still fasinated. After a while he joined the circus and not as many people really found interest in the hunger artist. No one kept track of how long he had not eaten for and neither did he. One day a spectator noticed that there was no hungar artist in the cage. He was hidden under the straw and had died. He was then barried and replaced with a panther. I thought that the symbolism in this story was that the crowd thought that this man the hunger artist was doing this to prove a point that there was great meaning behind what he was doing but really there wasn't any meaning at all for why he was starving himself. He just couldn't find anything that he liked to eat.

Young Goodman Brown
This story starts out when Young Goodman Brown leaves his wife Faith to do an overnight errand but Faith does not want him to go. But he does and along the way he runs in to an old man that he felt he was supposed to meet up with. This man to me I think is supposed to be a symbol of the dark side. Which he would be going in to. He loses all good.