1. Faith's pink ribbons: I think faiths pink ribbons refer to her innocence, and cheerful personality, just recognizing the ribbons themselves makes the reader associate them with someone who is caring, loyal, and an overall good person. Yet, I think the pink ribbons are in a way a use of irony, because when she is seen at the forest and her ribbons are flowing in the air all her innocence is strip from her.
2. The old man's staff: The staff seemed like the devils key to entering the dark side, and the old man used it to tempt Goodman into using it and in the end it got the best out of Goodman. The devil kind of bribes Goodman with the staff, saying that it will help him, and that soon he will get tired and the staff will guide him, but it ends up guiding him in the wrong direction. The way the author described it as resembling a serpent, it automatically connects it to the devil, since the devil is symbolized as a serpent in a religious point of view.
3. The old man: I think the old man was referred to as the devil himself, and he played out the Adam and Eve scene, telling Goodman that it's ok if he follows him to the forest, saying that he wasn't the only one doing it, that all the other holy towns people were in his same position.
4. Dreams: In the beginning of the story Faith mentions how she was scared of having bad dreams because she would have to sleep alone, and that she had a dream that warned her of what was going to happen that night. Then at the end of the story Goodman doesn't know whether to believe what he thinks happened, or if it was a just a dream. I think the dreams symbolized their way of communicating, because it gave the first hint that the night wasn't going to be ok, then in the end, the dream was their only way of finding logic.
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