Scarlet Letter, Child Perception

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A child's brutal honesty can be a gift or a blessing. Their naive ness to other's perceptions and prejudice has their comments and actions cause them no embarrassment or harm, because as a child they hold certain innocence. Children have the tendency to talk "trash" about their surroundings and the people surrounding them because of their naive ness they seem to have a sense of perception than an adult could ever have. They have the uncanny ability to gossip about everything and nothing at the same time. Perceiving the world around them with no limitations or self-censorship. Pearl's perception of the world around her seems to be a combination of the non self-censored childish and the high maturity of a mature adult.

For a short period in everyone's life you are a child. Your ignorance to the world is your window through which you view the world. At a very young age, not too long after you being to speak you begin to comment on the world around you. A child is usually naive to other's prejudice, which allows for comments to be told openly and without shame, good or bad. The children of Boston seem to have a perception of Hester as an evil woman, a woman that made a pact with the devil. These children's perceptions generally se

" ' Is the worshipful Governor Bellingham within?' inquired Hester.

The children of Boston constantly torment Hester and Pearl. Knowing that something was "not right" about the two. As Pearl is growing up the other children make her the "outcast" in every situation possible. The extremity of the chilldrens hatred torwards the pair reaches a climax when Pearl is age three. Hester had heard rumors around the village that Pearl may be taken away from her and given to a "better" parent. Hester wanted to know if these rumors were true, so on the evening that she was supposed to deliver a pair of gloves she hade made to the Governor she planed on convincing them to let her keep Pearl. As Hester and Pearl were walking into the town they were assaulted with mud by a group of children.

' Yea, forsooth," replied the bondservant, staring with wide-open eyes at the scarlet letter, which, being a newcomer in the country, he had never before seen. "Yea, his honorable worship is within. But he hath a godly minister or two with him, and likewise a leech. Ye may not see his worship now."

These children spoke of Hester as an evil being, but spoke of Pearl with much harsher of a tone and words. Their actions were out of ignorance, tormenting another child because of who her mother is, and what their parents have gossiped about the town, not knowing the true matter or having their own real opinion about the situation. Though their goals were to intimidate the pair, Pearl is not intimidated by the other children's twisted actions, but she is rather aggravated and angered by the other children. When Pearl reacts to the other children's actions, she gestures at them, and then takes flight towards them while yelling with great volume and aggression scaring the other children off. These other children see Pearl as a threat and as a devil child, a child

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Approximate Word count = 1246
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: English