"The Ghost in the Cap'n Brown House"

Harriet Beecher Stowe brings up the idea that people are effected differently from believing and non-believing events that they did not have credible evidence provided for or did not witness first hand. Sam states that people who are more willing to believe often absorb more from stories, especially when it comes to the supernatural, and that those who do not believe often refuse to learn from the morals or mistakes that are depicted in these stories. After the quote he also says that "We hain't ben there, and can't say that there ain't no ghosts and sich; can we, now?". By saying this he provides an argument for both sides of the spectrum, non-believers and believers. This relates to the previous quote because Sam reveals that all people have the choice to believe, which really means that they have the choice to either disregard events without physical evidence, or take them into consideration and learn from them.

I agree with Harriet Beecher Stowe's idea about the believability of unexplained stories. I think that even the most fantastical stories can offer up wisdom in some form. The truth of a story becomes such a small factor when the events of the story affect most people that hear it, especially in "The Ghost in the Cap'n Brown House" because almost all of the townspeople interact with Cap'n Brown at some point or another, and the events of the story will certainly completely change their relations with him depending on whether or not they choose to believe the story.