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Both Young Goodman Brown and Rip Van Winkle go on a journey (of sorts). Compare
at least one specific aspect of their journeys that is similar. Compare at least one
specific aspect of their journeys that is different. In each case, explain how each
character is changed by his journey.
Criteria:
 300 words minimum (excluding quotations and citations)
 Include two properly integrated and cited direct quotations (one from each story) to
support your claims. See the Literary Analysis Tools Module from this week's activities for
information about integrating and citing quotations.
Similarities
Some similarities that I found in each one of the passages were that both Rip Van Winkle
and Young Goodman Brown experienced these supernatural events in the woods where they
treaded in a journey of self-reflection. Another similarity is that while in the woods both men
were greeted by men they did not know, who walked with them through the woods. In the
passage about Rip Van Winkle it states “Rip now felt a vague apprehension stealing over him; he
looked anxiously in the same direction, and perceived a strange figure slowly toiling up the rocks