1-5 The book opens with a jailhouse. The jail and the surroundings are dreary and boring. The only thing saving the bleakness of surroundings was a rosebush. This rosebush was supposedly connected to (who was the martyr, I forget and can’t find my book)
In the first five chapters Hester, the main character, is taken to a place of public shame in the market place. There she is to stand wearing a scarlet letter “A”. This A was to symbolize adulteress. As she was standing on the scaffold she was questioned by reverend Dimsdale and governor Bellingham as to the whereabouts of the man who she had an affair with. After she refuses their inquiry she se’s a man she recognizes entering the crowd. Hester is then taken back to the jail and the man she saw in the crowd comes to her cell to provide medical assistance. Then man we then find is her husband and is going to seek the man she had the affair with and cause him to feel a guilt like no man should ever have to bear. After a few years she is then released from prison and although she could leave Boston she chose not to. Instead she chooses a shack on the edge of town with very infertile land. She picks up sewing and gardening to provide for herself and pearl. Whatever she has extra she uses to give to the poor, homeless, and starving as her penance. Everyone she tries to help insult her though. This paves the way for her and pearls feelings through the rest of the book. Living with the insult and the “A” is what the rest of the book revolves around.
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The book opens with a jailhouse. The jail and the surroundings are dreary and boring. The only thing saving the bleakness of surroundings was a rosebush. This rosebush was supposedly connected to (who was the martyr, I forget and can’t find my book)
In the first five chapters Hester, the main character, is taken to a place of public shame in the market place. There she is to stand wearing a scarlet letter “A”. This A was to symbolize adulteress. As she was standing on the scaffold she was questioned by reverend Dimsdale and governor Bellingham as to the whereabouts of the man who she had an affair with. After she refuses their inquiry she se’s a man she recognizes entering the crowd. Hester is then taken back to the jail and the man she saw in the crowd comes to her cell to provide medical assistance. Then man we then find is her husband and is going to seek the man she had the affair with and cause him to feel a guilt like no man should ever have to bear. After a few years she is then released from prison and although she could leave Boston she chose not to. Instead she chooses a shack on the edge of town with very infertile land. She picks up sewing and gardening to provide for herself and pearl. Whatever she has extra she uses to give to the poor, homeless, and starving as her penance. Everyone she tries to help insult her though. This paves the way for her and pearls feelings through the rest of the book. Living with the insult and the “A” is what the rest of the book revolves around.
Ann Hutchinson was the martyr connected to the rosebush
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