Chapter 1
2. The significance of the rosebush is that it stands for Ann Hutchinson a prominent citizen who got accused of witchcraft and killed. This is related to The scarllet letter because out of all the weeds in this area their is one good thing, and in this story Hester is that one good thing.
Chapter 2
4.She walks out of the prison. She is like a holy person. She looks like an angel, and her hair is flawless and she is so beautiful unlike the other women of this time.
5. The greatest outrage is to go against God, Yes I think that if we go against God we are giving up our souls. It will show that if we go against God that we are giving up our soul if we repent from our sins we will live happier lives and have freedom from the oppression of sin. This story will tell how my last statement will be true through this story.
5. The greatest outrage is to go against God, Yes I think that if we go against God we are giving up our souls. It will show that if we go against God that we are giving up our soul if we repent from our sins we will live happier lives and have freedom from the oppression of sin. This story will tell how my last statement will be true through this story.
Chapter 3
7. He is a ragged old man, who has a deformity in his shoulder which makes one part of his back arch up. He is old skinny, and wearing half Indian clothes half English clothes.
9. He is a young man in his thirties, he has good confidence,but is not boastful. He is handsome and well put together, but you can see dark rings around his eyes showing that he stays up late many a night. He is a minister of high standing,but might have a dark past.
10. That if she loves God that she will confess and become free from sin, and that her bady should know her father. She replies saying that her baby will know no earthly father only a heavenly one. It starts to cry.
11. Because only God can remove it no human can lift away a sin only God.
9. He is a young man in his thirties, he has good confidence,but is not boastful. He is handsome and well put together, but you can see dark rings around his eyes showing that he stays up late many a night. He is a minister of high standing,but might have a dark past.
10. That if she loves God that she will confess and become free from sin, and that her bady should know her father. She replies saying that her baby will know no earthly father only a heavenly one. It starts to cry.
11. Because only God can remove it no human can lift away a sin only God.
Chapter 4
13. He is saying that he left her here in America and she committed adultery. This is how they hurt each other.
Chapter 5
16. She can not survive the wild lands of America, and that her husband will come back. This shows that she is in need of a man and that she thinks she loves her husband.
17. The cabin out in the woods, it is far away from all people in the town.
20. She can see other people who haves sinned, she uses it to see other sinners in their sin.
17. The cabin out in the woods, it is far away from all people in the town.
20. She can see other people who haves sinned, she uses it to see other sinners in their sin.
Chapter 6
22. He shows instances where she asks her mother about the "A" on her chest over and over again even when Hester says stop.
24. It will show how sin in one person will be passes down into the next generations because sin is like a virus it spreads.
24. It will show how sin in one person will be passes down into the next generations because sin is like a virus it spreads.
Chapter 7
26. Hester dresses her daughter in “a crimson velvet tunic of a peculiar cut, abundantly embroidered with fantasies and flourishes of gold thread.” Pearl and the embroidered letter are both beautiful in a rich, sensuous way that stands in contrast to the stiffness of Puritan society. this dress makes Pearl Stand out of the community just like Hester's letter "A"
27. It is like the days of old England with portraits and suits of armor in the hallways. It feels stuffy and drab. That puritan cultures don't try to stand out they all try to look the same. They can not take pride in their workings.
27. It is like the days of old England with portraits and suits of armor in the hallways. It feels stuffy and drab. That puritan cultures don't try to stand out they all try to look the same. They can not take pride in their workings.
Chapter 8
29. To see how good a job Hester is doing in raising her the right way. He asks her to tell him the 10 commandments, to see if she knows anything about religion She stand s there mute not saying a word.
30. So that she will not sin, if they take her child she will have committed this sin and nothing good will have come out of it. Dimmesdale because he thinks that it is God's purpose to give her the child to remind her of her sin.
30. So that she will not sin, if they take her child she will have committed this sin and nothing good will have come out of it. Dimmesdale because he thinks that it is God's purpose to give her the child to remind her of her sin.
Chapter 9
33. He becomes the doctor. He seems evil and he moves in with Dimmesdale. Because the narrator is like the people at the time unknowing of how weird this looks.
36. The story of how Adulterous people are punished, the themes include sin and punishment.
36. The story of how Adulterous people are punished, the themes include sin and punishment.
Chapter 10
40. Dimmesdale thinks that if someone dies with sin nothing really happens, but Chilligworth thinks that a plant grow out of your dead and sinfulness heart. Because he start s to feel faint. It shows that Chillignworth has some questionable motives in being a doctor to Dimmesdale he is their for some other reason.
42. He see a red A on his chest. He dances around like a giddy child, this is like the devil and how he celebrates when he wins a soul.
42. He see a red A on his chest. He dances around like a giddy child, this is like the devil and how he celebrates when he wins a soul.
Chapter 11
44. He actually has really good sermons. A great sadness but people feel like they are equal which makes them feel better. Its a tone of anger and dismay because this is how the people would have felt when he said this to them.
Chapter 12
46. He is going crazy and he thinks that one way to keep him from hurting himself is to go on the platform in front of God and show him his sin openly.
49. She ask him if he will stand with them at midday. It shows that Pearl likes him and wants him to be apart of her and Hester's lives.
50. A meteor in the shape of a letter A, a flaming red a that lights up the entire sky. Dimmesdale thinks it stands for adultery and other people who saw it thought it stood for angel.
49. She ask him if he will stand with them at midday. It shows that Pearl likes him and wants him to be apart of her and Hester's lives.
50. A meteor in the shape of a letter A, a flaming red a that lights up the entire sky. Dimmesdale thinks it stands for adultery and other people who saw it thought it stood for angel.
Chapter 13
53. She once was known as a adulterer that stayed away from everybody into a caregiver that helps all the poor sick and hungry. They once saw the letter as adulterous and now they see it as able. This quote means that it has done its job and is now no longer needed.
54. She becomes pail, ugly,and her hair is tucked into her hat she has lost her angel like appearance. She once though it was about love, but now it is about helping others and not caring about yourself.
54. She becomes pail, ugly,and her hair is tucked into her hat she has lost her angel like appearance. She once though it was about love, but now it is about helping others and not caring about yourself.
Chapter 14
56. A sinner who is in the wrong job. Because he wants his revenge. Because he feeds off revenge and so it seems that Dimmesdale is always doing something that will make Chillingworth want to hurt him more.
Chapter 15
59. She will need a loving father that can teach her wrong from right.
Chapter 16
60. Because she is scared of Roger overhearing them and shaming them. That it is a secret sinful one because they are meeting in the dark forest where spirits are conjured.
63. What does the scarlet a mean? That she knows when Hester is lying and she knows that it means something else than what her mother is telling her.
63. What does the scarlet a mean? That she knows when Hester is lying and she knows that it means something else than what her mother is telling her.
Chapter 17
66. Dimmesdale views repentance as hurting yourself, and Hester sees it as asking God for help. Dimmesdale sees redemption as going to heaven and Hester see is as doing good for others.
67. Because she can not see him suffer any longer, he blames her for his sadness and starts to sob. I think that he is a wimpy man that needs to stand up and take it like a man not some sissy girl.
68. Dimmesdale need her because she sees him as who he is, and she needs him because she has never loved anybody else.
67. Because she can not see him suffer any longer, he blames her for his sadness and starts to sob. I think that he is a wimpy man that needs to stand up and take it like a man not some sissy girl.
68. Dimmesdale need her because she sees him as who he is, and she needs him because she has never loved anybody else.
Chapter 18
69. The life of a christian because it seems like a moral wilderness and it is hard to find oneself through it without God.
70. It loves her. It shows that when she has the letter on nature hates her, but when she takes it off it is natural and nature loves her. Love cures all things.
70. It loves her. It shows that when she has the letter on nature hates her, but when she takes it off it is natural and nature loves her. Love cures all things.
Chapter 19
71. She has only grown up with Hester with the scarlet letter now she looks like an entire new person and this scares Pearl. Because she is used to it being there and foreign things are frightening. Because again he will not join them openly he is too scared.
Chapter 20
73. The old lady, the young lady, the sailor, and Mistress Hibbons. The new found energy from Hester. God is doing it, that he has changed a lot and this is why is seems weird
74. That he is a worshiper of the devil like her. That Dimmesdale was a wimp while Hester was strong and didn't give in.
74. That he is a worshiper of the devil like her. That Dimmesdale was a wimp while Hester was strong and didn't give in.
Chapter 21
76. She is completely isolated, she covers Pearl with disobedience to keep her mind off the other things.
78. That chillingworth will be joining them on the the passage. Because she has found out that she cannot escape from Chillingworth.
78. That chillingworth will be joining them on the the passage. Because she has found out that she cannot escape from Chillingworth.
Chapter 22
80.Healthier and more energetic than he has in some time. He looks alive and happy, but all the others seem dreary and sad. That he will die because he is the odd-man-out.
Chapter 23
83. That finally he is repenting his sin upon the platform like he wanted to many years ago.
85. Chillingworth yells that he has escpaed him, Hester looks sad and Pearl kisses him.
86. God will decide whether they will receive any further punishment for breaking His sacred law. That as soon as he says this he dies showing that God answered by killing him.
85. Chillingworth yells that he has escpaed him, Hester looks sad and Pearl kisses him.
86. God will decide whether they will receive any further punishment for breaking His sacred law. That as soon as he says this he dies showing that God answered by killing him.
Chapter 24
Many different stories are told of how the "A" got on Dimmesdales chest and many have their own stories. The most popular idea that comes from this is that even the best of us sin. Hester and Pearls leave to Europe, Chillingworth disappears never to be seen again. Hester return many years later and reapplies the a to her chest. Pearl is about to get married and Hester makes her baby clothes. She grows old and dies but her name stands for comfort and peace to the uncomfortable and nervous. When she dies they bury her next to Dimmesdale and they share a tombstone which has a RED LETTER A ON IT. The narrator believes that this sums up the entire story a bright beautiful letter a with a background of blackness.