... but when true love found her, her life changed for the better (even if she had to go through so much pain in the beginning). Jimmy Eat World's two lines summarize The Scarlet Letter and all the characters, "Someone's gonna ask you what it's all about. Whatcha gonna have to say for yourself?- These two lines ask all the questions about the book. What does Hester have to say for herself ... for committing adultery, what does Dimmesdale have to say for himself for not telling people he sinned and letting Hester take all the punishment. What does ... ...

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... punishment will thereby be made more effectual to Salvation, I charge the to speak out the name of thy fellow-sinner and fellow sufferer!" (pg.63) Dimmesdale, while asking these questions to Hester, allows them to conceal their secret relationship from the townspeople and as well the strangers in the community. While being secluded on the scaffold, Hester comes across what seems to be familiar face in ... the crowd. She presents him as being a stranger in the novel, but yet when is placed in the prison for her crime, she comes in ... ones secret lover and father. Dimmesdale struggles th...

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... jail for committing adultery, Chillingworth confronts her and lets her know that he's out to get revenge on whomever she is having an affair with. He asks different kinds of questions to try to find out the truth about her affair, however, nothing works. During this meeting with Chillingworth, Hester is scared for herself and Dimmesdale because ... . Chillingworth now has nothing to live for because he was infatuated on seeking revenge on Dimmesdale that one year later, he dies as well. Revenge plays a big role in the strory of the scarlet letter. After of Chillingworths time and effort ...

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... they tell the reader about the prison, the scaffold, and how Hester is being publicly condemned for adultery. These chapters also show the reader that the society is depicting the political reality of Hester's World, the Puritan society. The Puritans intended to create a "Utopian" society, but it can be seen in these chapters that this world already knows sin. The women of the town criticize her for embroidering the scarlet letter, the symbol of ... her shame, with such care and in such a flashy manner. This seems to declare that Hester is proud, rather than ashamed, of her sin. In real...

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... wear the scarlet letter A on her clothing. She if forced to stand on the scaffold while everyone stares at her with shame. She is referred to as a hussy by many of the other women. She is very pretty and seems like a moral person. People get more angry when she looks like she is proud of the letter and show no shame towards it. Her minister, Dimmesdale repeatedly questions ... her and tells her to confess the name of her lover because hiding it does no good. She ... mad when Hester takes off the scarlet letter in the forest because the scarlet letter is what makes her mother stand out ...

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... ; he swims in it, goes to sleep in it, and wakes to the new days to find it still about him. He belongs to it" it nourishes or starves him, or poisons him; it gives him the substance of his life." Community plays a large role in everyone's life; Pearl and Hester of The Scarlet Letter, LeAlan Jones, Lloyd Newman, Eric Morse and his killers, of Ghetto ... things. Public displays of a person's crime were common. Some may think that the simple task of wearing a scarlet letter is no big deal, but try to raise a child who questions almost everything while wearing the letter. Her town branded H...

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• Grade Level: High School