When trying to get a point across, authors might take different routes from one another. Nathaniel Hawthorne and Jonathan Edwards, two famous writers, both had ties to the Puritan community through their works. While Hawthorne’s short story “The Minister’s Black Veil” was written many years after the actual Puritan times, Edward’s sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” is directed towards the Puritans of that time. There are not only numerous differences, such as when the works were written, the way certain literary devices are used, and the tone of the passages, within the two works but also some similarities like who the works are addressing, how they both speak of the spiritual world, and how they urge bettering one’s self. Both works