Post your main response and responses to two classmates’ posts, collectively amounting to 400 words minimum (at least 150 for your main post and at least 125 for each reply to classmates) due by Friday — Be sure that your main response answers the prompt thoroughly and that your responses to classmates directly address the ideas discussed in their posts in depth. Please, put as much effort into your replies to classmates as you do your response to the prompt. Your replies are what make this a discussion. Thank you.

The idea that Arnold Friend may be the devil and that Connie may be dreaming evokes striking similarities between the coming-of-age stories “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” and “Young Goodman Brown.” Consider the similar presence of the devil and the dream in these stories and give examples of evidence where you see it in the texts. What common themes and meanings are revealed between the stories? Explain your interpretation.