“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” by Jonathan Edwards and “The Minister’s Black Veil” by Nathaniel Hawthorne are two very different stories, each with its own theme and style. Both stories have some things and common and other things that contrast. “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” by Jonathan Edwards is a sermon given by the Puritan preacher Jonathan Edwards. “The Minister’s Black Veil” is a parable written by Nathaniel Hawthorne the tells about the effects of a pastor wearing a black veil in a small town of Puritans. Both authors include ideas of death, sin, redemption, and judgement; However, Hawthorne uses a more effective writing style. “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” by Jonathan Edwards is a sermon that includes a preacher reprimanding his congregation about how people who do not publicly devote themselves to Christ will be released into the pits of Hell come judgement day. Edwards includes many different rhetorical devices and uses good style and word choice. Edwards begins his sermon with a terrifying amount of anger. Edwards states, “So that, this it is that natural men are held in the hand of God, over the…show more content… Mr. Hooper, the minister, one day decided to wear a black veil, which represents sin, to express how people need to live their lives with their sins always in front of them, instead of pushing the sins to the side. The veil creates a town full of terrified people. The people fear Mr. Hooper when he begins to wear the veil. One woman states “He has changed himself into something awful, only by hiding his face.” This describes how the townspeople felt about Mr. Hooper wearing the veil. Hawthorne uses an array of word choice and rhetoric, and tells the story in a way that trumps that of Edwards. Hawthorne uses style and tone in a more effective way than that of
