The Minister's Black Veil Summary

Parson Hooper was a Reverend from Nathaniel Hawthorne's parable The Minister’s Black veil. A parable is a simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson, as told by Jesus in the Gospels. Nathaniel was exceptional with the way he wrote keeping every detail discreet with the meaning of his parable possibly why it's hard to until the meaning of the parable without paying attention to the keywords.Nathaniel Hawthorne knew how to work the real world into his story and make it be expressed in a parabolic way.He was able to keep his readers encouraged in their reading and hooked onto the message behind a veil. I noticed some of the characteristics involved in this American Romanticism is there are regular citizens sticking to their …show more content…
Another theme is that just how you have the courage to commit sin you must have the courage to be around people just like Mr.Hooper had the courage to go to the wedding with the whole village, staring at him with a very curious and mysterious look(Hawthorne, 7).Lastly thinking of others was a theme to interpret off the reading. Mr. Hooper wore the black veil for his secret sin and also for the sins of the people of his village. I thought he was a daring man since he thought of the people from his village since he was the minister and wanted to seek for forgiveness for all the sinners (Hawthorne, …show more content…
of this story where the rising action after rising action . Nathaniel was very good with the structure of the parable. The rising action was able to keep the reader engaged in what would happen next in the parable.”By persons who claimed a superiority to popular prejudice, it was reckoned merely an eccentric whim, such as often mingles with the sober actions of men otherwise rational, and tinges them all with its own semblance of insanity. But with the multitude, good Mr. Hooper was irreparably a bugbear. “(Hawthorne, 12). In this part of the parable, Nathaniel was explaining that the for the people of the village it was strange to see Mr. Hooper in black ,especially not knowing the reason to why he wears it, but underneath the veil is still the same nice minister of the village. The people of the village would judge the minister , even though they are very close with him, wouldn’t even bother or have the courage in asking the minister why he wears the black veil (Hawthorne, 15). This was very rude and disrespectful towards the minister since the minister knows the sins of the village and he doesn't go around talking behind their backs talking about their

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