The magistrate asks Pearl a simple question, “Canst thou tell me, my child, who made thee?” –(107). Pearl replies that she had not been made at all, but that she had been plucked off the wild rosebush that grew by the prison door. Hester tries to cover Pearl’s mistake, but the clergy wouldn’t hear of it. Pearl almost got taken away from Hester to be raised by the church. Pearl would not have fit in, and Dimmesdale came to the rescue with a push from Hester to speak on her behalf. The whirlwind of a little pixie girl would have been yet again misplaced in the world if she were to have been raised in the church. Pearl has always been an outcast or a misfit, and the Puritan church would have been another place for her to not fit in, because she had no father.

Pearl had always subconsciously knew who her earthly father was. “…Pearl, that wild and flighty little elf, stole softly towards him, and taking his hand

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