Alternate ending rough draft portfolio: chosen story: "young goodman brown" by nathaniel hawthorne for this unit's portfolio item, you will choose one story and write a totally different ending that remains true to the characters and conflict. it should also model the original author's style. compose a one- to two-page alternate ending to your selected short story, following mla format. begin your alternate ending with a sentence that appears on the last page of the original short story to transition from the original author's voice to your own. can someone me? like advice, ideas, explain to me how in the world i am supposed to change a whole story's ending and still stay in the author's original style. this just doesn't make any sense. has anyone ever done something like this before?

[1] nothing that comes from the desert expresses its extremes better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas. tormented, thin forests of it stalk drearily in the high mesas, particularly in that triangular slip that fans out eastward from the meeting of the sierras and coastwise hills. the yucca bristles with bayonet-pointed leaves, dull green, growing shaggy with age like an old [5] man's tangled gray beard, tipped with panicles of foul, greenish blooms. after its death, which is slow, the ghostly hollow network of its woody skeleton, with hardly power to rot, makes even the moonlight fearful. but it isn't always this way. before the yucca has come to flower, while yet its bloom is a luxurious, creamy, cone-shaped bud of the size of a small cabbage, full of sugary sap. the indians twist it deftly out of its fence of daggers and roast the prize for their [10] own delectation why does the author use the words "bayonet-pointed" (line 4) and "fence of daggers" (line 9) to describe the leaves of the yucca tree? . to create an image of the sharp edges of the plant to emphasize how beautiful the plant's leaves are to explain when and where the plant grows to show how afraid the author is of the plant