The Devil and Tom Walker !

Tom Walker: Man full of misery, he mistreats his horse and hates his wife. Tom Walker is careless and does things without thinking of the consequences it may have. He is not a kind person, and argues alot with his wife. One can see on Tom’s clothes and body that he is miserable and his house too. When reading about this character the colors you may see turns grey and, light covered with darkness.

The Wife: She is tall and strong; she is very much a bad person. She will cheat her husband just as much as he would cheat her. She cares only for material goods and not for her husband’s health or welfare. She is overall greedy, and personally going to make a deal with the Devil as Tom Walker declines the Devil’s offer.

The story contains symbolism. One example is the trees in the wood. The trees symbolize the people in this world. One can look like a good person in the surface, but this may not be the truth about someone, and therefore many of the trees were rotten on the inside .

The story takes place some miles away from Boston, Massachusetts, in year 1727. The dark gloomy woods.

Tom Walker was a miserable man that cared more for money than his own wife. His horse was miserable, and so skinny that the naked eye could see the ribs clear as bars in an iron grid. Tom Walker and his wife were constantly arguing. One day Tom Walker found himself in the distant part of the neighborhood. And on his way home, he decided to take what he thought was a shortcut. He went through the gloomy woods, and quagmires. 

As he came to one area that looked to have been an Indian stronghold, some years back. He stumbled over an old skull, with a tomahawk under it. Without thinking he gave the skull a kick. Suddenly a dark figure appears, it has red eyes staring at Tom Walker. Fearlessly he walked up to the dark figure. The man pointed at some trees, the one great tree there had a name on it; Deacon Peabody. It was rotten on the inside but neat looking on the outside, representing a person that seems like a good person on the outside but is truly rotten on the inside.It becomes clear to Tom Walker that this figure is the devil, or “Old Scratch”, The Devil offers a deal to Tom Walker, he would be rich all his life in exchange for his soul after death. 

Now Tom Walker was not sure if this was a good idea or not so he went home to talk to his wife about it. She advised Tom to say yes and take the deal. But Tom Walker was not sure about it. The wife headed out to search for the devil and make the deal herself.Tom Walker sat out after his wife when he realized that she brought all their valuables. He found only her guts in a bag, instead of what he went out for. Soon after he found the Devil and made the deal with him. He got richer than he ever imagined, but he ran business the rest of his life in an unmoral way. Until the Devil one day stand at his doorstep ready 

to take Tom Walker with him.

Signed : Jazzmine Perry 
Ms.Ellison 5th prd 
02/10/13