The scarlet letter
Chapter 1: The Prison-Door: The first chapter in the ScarletLetter the setting is Boston in the 17th century in front of the prison. The prison was plain colored and the surroundings were very ordinary except for the rosebush that is outside of the prison. All the Puritans dressed in drab, Chapter 2: The Market Place: Outside of the Prison the ugly puritan women discuss the adultery of Hester Prynne. Hester is the beautiful woman wearing a bright A on her bosom. She carries her baby (Pearl) in her arms. While standing on the scaffold she has flash backs of her old life, and the childhood school days, and her mother and father, also the Chapter 3: The Recognition: While standing upon the Scaffold she recognizes a small disformed "native" man in the background. While no one in the rest of the town knows him Hester is in shock that he is here. The man (Roger Chillingworth) asks why this woman is standing on the scaffold and what she did to get there. He learns of her crime (adultery) and her punishment to stand on the scaffold for three hours and to wear the letter A on her chest for the rest of her life. Chillingworth also learns that she
and lets her h air down, and sunshine bursts through. "dropped" into the town just as things were starting to fall begs for his forgiveness for her silence. His reaction Chapter 19: The Child at the Brook-Side: scaffold where Hester stood wearing her scarlet A, and him will soon be revealed to the world. Pearl will then know immoral feelings in the other towns people. townspeople like her clothing, and buy it for almost every how much people love him, that just makes him feel even more
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Approximate Pages = 14 (250 words per page double spaced)
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