According to father hooper’s explanation at the end of “the minister’s black veil,” what point is he trying to make by wearing the veil for most of his life?
he means to show that everyone, not just he, has experienced sin and sorrow and should therefore try not to hide it from others or from god.
he has always meant the veil to be a showpiece for his ministry that would get people talking about his sermons and increase church attendance.
though he has always been considered a good preacher, his sermons are mild, not powerful, so he has put on the veil when he preaches in order to instill the fear of god in his listeners.
he has not wanted to damage the reputation of the church and of his ministry by revealing the terrible thing he has done before he entered the ministry.

Wi n t e r acrostic poem worth 10 points but giving 30

Read this passage from “the fall of the house of usher.” which element of gothic literature is not obvious in this passage? as if in the superhuman energy of his utterance there had been found the potency of a spell, the huge antique panels to which the speaker pointed threw slowly back, upon the instant, their ponderous and ebony jaws. it was the work of the rushing gust—but then without those doors there did stand the lofty and enshrouded figure of the lady madeline of usher. there was blood upon her white robes, and the evidence of some bitter struggle upon every portion of her emaciated frame. for a moment she remained trembling and reeling to and fro upon the threshold—then, with a low moaning cry, fell heavily inward upon the person of her brother, and in her violent and now final death agonies, bore him to the floor a corpse, and a victim to the terrors he had anticipated. bleak or remote settings supernatural or otherworldly elements macabre or violent incidents strong language full of dangerous meaning

People really be on here lying to people about the right answer, dang