The narrator then goes into his book which takes place in 17th century Boston which was a Puritan settlement. A young woman is guided out of a prison with a child in her arms and the letter "A" patched against her breast. An elderly onlooker asks of what is going on and a man in the crowd explains that the lady is Hester Prynne who carries the child, Pearl, of an adulterer and is being charged for illicit sexual intercourse. The man explains to the elder that Hester was sent ahead to Boston by her husband, who is a scholar much older than she, but he never arrived afterward. It was said that he was lost at sea. Apparently, while waiting, Hester had an affair with a

nother since she had given birth to the adulterer’s child and she refuses to identify who he is. The scarlet letter publicly displayed across her chest is a punishment for her sin of fornication and her secrecy. On this day, Hester was being led to town and lectured by the town’s priests, but she still refuses to reveal the identity.

The book additionally keeps you on your toes with peculiarity. Through a lot of the book, I was very curious as to what that mark was on Dimmesdale’s chest that made Chillingsworth believe it was him who was the father, since it was kept from us. It was a real shocker that Ms. Hawthorne had Arthur Dimmesdale fall dead when his daughter is kissing him at the end also. I mean I knew he was really ill and everything, but I was hoping it was all just psychologically and that he would feel better after releasing he was the father to the public. I thought it was him keeping it in that was really killing him. I thought there would be a happy ending and that most certainly didn’t happen. Instead it was Hester and Arthur put together on the same tombstone with a scarlet "A" on it. I mean it makes sense, but I really didn’t want Arthur Dimmesdale to die.

At times there was also a bit too much detail, like in the beginning where they really didn’t get to the point until much later in the story, but besides that, and being a bit on the boring side through parts of the book, the book was an overall success.

This is known as a classic story by many. I found the story to be most definitely very interesting. It has an excellent plot and it’s a story that really makes you think, not just of how it was back then, but how people were back then. Everything then was so much more different then it is now. It’s not uncommon now to hear that a person has committed adultery, but then, they would be hanged if something like that was revealed. I really didn’t understand why Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale couldn’t "be together" after Hester’s husband was said to be lost at sea. They said in the book that until a body was found, she would have to wait 7 years until she could love another. That’s a long period of time and since they loved each other from

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