Nathaniel Hawthorne has carefully structured My Kinsman Major Molineux to the point where the reader can find several themes and symbols within the story A major theme in the story that ties in with the setting scenes in the story is the theme of dark innocence to illuminated knowledge The story focuses on Robins passage from child to adult and this is accomplished by the conventional pattern that Robins journey follows He travels away from home to a distant land where he meets strange people a