one is ashamed‚ has committed a sin or is crazy. Puritans establish these norms as a way of acknowledging that they are pure but because Hopper wears a veil he is no longer seen as pure but is looked as someone who has gone against puritan norms. Hooper is a minister who decides to wear a black veil because he wants everyone to realize that they all have secret sins like himself‚ but instead‚ the community views the veil as a “horrible black veil …. portend[ing] nothing but evil” (413). This suggests
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A DOG NAMED DUKE Q1 In 1953‚ Hooper was a favoured young man. Explain. Q2 They said that they would create a desk job for Hooper at headquarters. (i) Who are ’they’? (ii) Why did they decide to do this? Q3 Duke was an extraordinary dog. What special qualities did he exhibit to justify this? Discuss. Q4 What problems did Chuck present when he returned to the company headquarters? Q5 Why do you think Charles Hooper’s appointment as Assistant National Sales Manager is considered
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Black veil? That’s the meaning of secret sin and how terrible human nature can be. This could represent the secret sin that all people carry in their hearts… Sounds like someone I know in "The Ministers black veil". He goes by the name of Mr. Hooper. Mr. Hooper is blatantly seen to wear the veil to show he has caused personal sin that he bears to keep inside. He is closed from the outside world of positivity and shows no warrants to the people he socializes with. Even his fiancée . With that being
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life of all the characters. The short story "the minister’s black veil’‚ is about the minister Reverend Hooper and sins. The Minister’s Black Veil is about the pastor‚ Mister Hooper and the instant‚ unexplainable‚ and dramatic change of his appearance. Reverend Hooper placed a black veil‚ "swathed about his forehead‚ and hanging down over his face‚ so low as to be shaken by his breath‚ Mr. Hooper had on a black veil. Though the minister’s actions do not change‚ people’s reactions to him do‚ including
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far away from the beaches. Spielberg used gothic elements in his movie Jaws. The way he used them scared and still scares people today. The scene I chose is where Hooper finds Ben Gardner’s sunken boat. Leading up to this scene Hooper and Brody are on Hooper’s boat and Hooper is going to dive into the water to
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bell when the Reverend Mr. Hooper comes into sight. However‚ the congregation is met with an unusual sight: Mr. Hooper is wearing a black semi-transparent veil that obscures all of his face but his mouth and chin from view. This creates a stir among the townspeople‚ who begin to speculate about his veil and its significance. As he takes the pulpit‚ Mr. Hooper ’s sermon is on secret sin and is "tinged‚ rather more darkly than usual‚ with the gentle gloom of Mr. Hooper ’s temperament". This topic
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named Mr. Hooper. He attends a funeral of a woman he had a dalliance with. He astonishes the mourners with a black veil streaked across his face. What made this story more intriguing is the fact that he had a fiancé. Now‚ Mr. Hooper‚ who was once a sagacious man in the eyes of his churchgoers‚ is now a man shrouded with a black cloth and dark secrets. I find that it is fairly reasonable of him to hide his eyes from the others for many rational reasons. To begin‚ the premise of Mr. Hooper of wearing
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People judge others for showing their true self even though they’re not true to themselves. This is evident in the “Minister’s Black Veil” when all of the people judge Mr. Hooper for wearing the veil. “I don’t like it‚” muttered an old woman‚ as she hobbled into the meeting house. “He has changed himself into something awful‚ only by hiding his face” (267). This theme is also clear when Mr. Hooper’s wife tries to force him to take the veil off. “Lift the veil but once‚ and look me in the face‚” she
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Parson Hooper got upon his face?” (pg.1). This the first peak we get of the black veil that obscures the minister’s face; through the sexton‚ in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Minister’s Black Veil”. We can also determine what kind of man the minister was by his own actions‚ his words‚ and what others say of him. Hawthorne tells the story of good Parson Hooper‚ a minister who one day decides to cover his face with a black veil for unknown reasons. No one seems to understand why good Parson Hooper‚ a beloved
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their time judging others by their actions rather than by their own. Reverend Hooper chooses to never remove the black veil. It conveys this feeling of secret sin and is only confirmed when at his deathbed‚ he says that everyone has a secret sin that is hidden from all others. There are several settings in this story that show what the black veil symbolizes. The first setting of the story begins at the church where Hooper wears the black veil symbolizing sin. It is evident during Hooper’s Sermon that
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