Could you picture around 6 million people? Now how would you feel if all of them were killed right now? All of them being killed because they were African American or they were Mexican. The Holocaust was when the Nazi’s led by Adolf Hitler persecuted, tortured, and killed people just because they were Jewish. People were separated from their families and gassed or burned just to keep up with how many people were coming into the camp, or just to amuse themselves.
Washington Irving was the author of “The Devil and Tom Walker”, in his early life he began to study to be a lawyer, but soon falling away from that finding he had more interest in traveling and writing. Irving’s work including, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and “Rip Van Winkle”, became known as an important part of American heritage today. The setting was in New England, the year 1727, just at the time that earthquakes were prevaled. Around the area of where Tom Walker had lived with his wife, Tom had found an old Indian fort which he chose to rest at on his way homeward. The main characters in “The Devil and Tom Walker” are obviously the Devil, “a great black man...neither Negro nor Indian” and Tom Walker who was a “miserly fellow”.
In both “The Devil and Daniel Webster and “The Devil and Tom Walker, they both came face to face with the devil. They had different strategies on how to confront the devil. In the two short stories, the resolution, the depictions of the devil, and the role of religion or the saving grace are the similar and different things. The main idea of both stories is the resolution of what had happened to Daniel and Tom.
In conclusion these are the influence in the decision making process of the couple in The Box, and The Devil and Tom Walker. The conclusion of the story ‘’The Devil and Tom Walker, is that the devil wins and Tom is forced to pay his debt to the devil. He got rid out of it by becoming religious, but in the end he had to own up to what he had done. The devil rode back into the dark woods, to symbolize sending Tom to hell.
Similarly, in “The Men in the Black Suit” the devil disappears after chasing and threatening to attack Gary. These events make the readers speculate whether Goodman Brown and Gary actually saw the devil or had a
In addition, the magic flight in “The Demon Lover” comes when Mrs. Drover takes her boon--her life--and attempts to run away. She tries to escape with her life from this unknown force and since she does not know what she runs from, she becomes forced to continue running with the ultimate boon. This serves as one of the more dangerous journeys as the one she takes when crossing the first threshold which remains not as dangerous. Although Mrs. Drover does not intentionally begin the journey with the knowledge of what she must do once she retrieves, or acknowledges, the boon, she unknowingly completes Joseph Campbell’s hero’s journey.
Witches authenticated this person as the Devil, because he would say that she belonged to him now. Meaning that by having
At first glance, one may think the resolutions of the stories would be exactly the same, but they actually are not. In “The Devil and Tom Walker”, the main character, Tom Walker, makes a deal with the devil in order to become wealthy. The devil comes to Tom Walker when their deal comes to a close, and Tom runs away from all of his wealthy gains and problems, losing everything. In “The Devil and Daniel Webster”, the main character, Jabez Stone, also makes a deal with the devil in order to become prosperous and lucky, but his luck eventually runs out and the devil comes for him. Jabez Stone, however, does not get taken by the devil and is saved by his neighbor, Daniel Webster, who makes sure the devil
Here are their similarities. The witch kills people who insult here, and Hitler does the same, who spies on everyone, eager to find threats. They are both rulers of countries, though they both slithered their way into the authority over the subordinates of Narnia and Germany. The witch always has her army at hand to serve her, and Hitler never leaves his unless in ship-shape.
Troy calls a man the Devil who tried to sell Troy furniture in exchange for monthly payments by mail. Again, providing the logical version of the story, Rose explains why Troy invents stories about the Devil. " Anything you don't understand, you call the Devil." Troy examines door-to-door salesmen and the process of layaway for the first time and in his dumbness, turns a present-day instance into a fabled
“You said you would sell your soul to them for this plan. Your plan worked, and the devils may have you.” In the beginning of the book, Connor indeed said he would sell his soul for this plan, to the “devils” and not the “devil”. This implies there is multiple devils, which goes against what the bible says in being that there is only one devil. The thought of selling or binding one’s soul to the devil is a horrid enough sin, but to add the fact of their being multiple devils would push it over and beyond the bounds of what the puritans would let in their literature.
Representation of fiendish creatures in the novel Dracula sets the presence of monsters that affect the lives of the characters. Nonetheless, each character responds differently to the monsters to portray their positions and roles in the society. Two characters, Van Helsing and Gregor’s father completely fit in this comparison. The former does not hesitate to express the level of disturbance caused by the creatures. Van Helsing expresses discomfort caused by the monsters.
All these events can be interpreted as a pact made with the devil while in their fortress of
As written by Arthur Miller, “the Devil [works] again (...) just as he [works] within the Slav who is shocked at (...) a woman’s disrobing herself in a burlesque show. Our opposites are always robed in sexual sin, and it is from this unconscious conviction that demonology”. The Devil “gains both its attractive sensuality and its capacity to infuriate and frighten,” which displays the control he holds over the society in that he can lure in a pure soul, but frighten one as well
In the Stephen King short story, The Man in The Black Suit, the narrator Gary recounts an experience from his childhood that scared him permanently. When he was nine, Gary was tormented and stalked though the woods by the devil, who manifested himself after Gary wandered into the woods. During their interaction, the Devil lies to Gary and says that his mother just died at home. The Devil claimed that Gary’s mother was killed in a similar way that his brother, Dan, was also killed not too long ago, as she was apparently stung by a bee and is dead in his kitchen. Gary knows the Devil is a liar but finds it difficult to resist believing him.
