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My Morals

In the story, by listening to the different groups opinions, I saw a lot of new ways to look at the perspective of the story. When I first read through the story I thought that the moral of the story was going to be that, all of these people were sinners. Since they knew this preacher was a good man and everything, but still they seemed to judge him as something monsterous because of this black veil. Then when we started going through the groups I saw that people were going deeper with saying how not only was this effecting the minister, but also he was doing this to have an effect on the people of the town. I think after we went through the class discussion and learned the true moral of the story, I think that the minister had a great point. His views on life are the true meaning of life, even though it takes time to see this. People do have secrets that are hidden in themselves, and its almost like having a black veil over your face, because people cant see the true you.  I think that this is problematic, because people don’t understand that this is true, and when it is finally apparent that this is actually the truth, it makes people think.