The Devil And Tom Walker Constructed Re
Summer Alabsa
Mrs. Tanguis
English III-3
1 December 2014
“The Devil and Tom Walker”
1) The narrator uses specific details to explain how Tom Walker and his wife “were so miserly that they even conspired to cheat each other.” The narrator notes that “many and fierce were the conflicts that took place about what ought to have been common property.” The narrator describes Tom Walker’s wife as “a tall termagant, fierce of temper, loud of tongue, and strong of arm. Her voice was often heard in wordy warfare with her husband; and his face sometimes showed signs that their conflicts were not confined to words.” The narrator also presents details about the couple’s house to justify the despicable reputation that Tom Walker and his wife earned.
2) The stranger that Tom Walker encounters is “a great black man” who appeared “neither negro nor Indian,” but rather possessed a face “begrimed with soot, as if he had been accustomed to toil among fires and forges.” “Dressed in a rude, half Indian garb,” the man
“bore an axe on his shoulder.” The man even “scowled for a moment at Tom with a pair of great red eyes.” The man insists that he possesses “the right of prior claim” to the woodland since it belonged to him long before one of the “white faced race put foot upon the soil." In addition, the man notes that he has “various names...the Wild Huntsman in some countries; the
Black Miner in others.” The man also proclaims himself “the great patron and prompter of slave dealers, and the grand master of the Salem witches”, all of which lead Tom Walker to conclude that this “great black man” is actually the devil.
3) The devil, convinced that Deacon Peabody should “look more to his own sins and less to his neighbor's” explains that Deacon Peabody, like the tree bearing his name seemed “fair and flourishing without, but rotten at the core.” Henceforth, the devil claims the right to demolish
Deacon Peabody’s tree.
4) In the German legend, Faust, a scholar, secures an arrangement with the
Mrs. Tanguis
English III-3
1 December 2014
“The Devil and Tom Walker”
1) The narrator uses specific details to explain how Tom Walker and his wife “were so miserly that they even conspired to cheat each other.” The narrator notes that “many and fierce were the conflicts that took place about what ought to have been common property.” The narrator describes Tom Walker’s wife as “a tall termagant, fierce of temper, loud of tongue, and strong of arm. Her voice was often heard in wordy warfare with her husband; and his face sometimes showed signs that their conflicts were not confined to words.” The narrator also presents details about the couple’s house to justify the despicable reputation that Tom Walker and his wife earned.
2) The stranger that Tom Walker encounters is “a great black man” who appeared “neither negro nor Indian,” but rather possessed a face “begrimed with soot, as if he had been accustomed to toil among fires and forges.” “Dressed in a rude, half Indian garb,” the man
“bore an axe on his shoulder.” The man even “scowled for a moment at Tom with a pair of great red eyes.” The man insists that he possesses “the right of prior claim” to the woodland since it belonged to him long before one of the “white faced race put foot upon the soil." In addition, the man notes that he has “various names...the Wild Huntsman in some countries; the
Black Miner in others.” The man also proclaims himself “the great patron and prompter of slave dealers, and the grand master of the Salem witches”, all of which lead Tom Walker to conclude that this “great black man” is actually the devil.
3) The devil, convinced that Deacon Peabody should “look more to his own sins and less to his neighbor's” explains that Deacon Peabody, like the tree bearing his name seemed “fair and flourishing without, but rotten at the core.” Henceforth, the devil claims the right to demolish
Deacon Peabody’s tree.
4) In the German legend, Faust, a scholar, secures an arrangement with the