A Roller Coaster Ride through Sins in The Scarlet Letter

A Roller Coaster Ride through Sins in The Scarlet Letter

Through Hawthorn's discrimination toward Puritans,he makes a plot

with a series of events that leads you through sins and torments of the three

main characters.

The setting is the colonial time period, in the Puritan town of Boston,

Massachusetts. The story starts with a group of puritans standing outside a

prison door. Hester Prynne leaves the prison to go to the scaffold to stand

with her newly born daughter Pearl. Hester is standing on the scaffold for

punishment of adultery, which there is also a scarlet "A" on her breast

symbolizing the sin and crime. She is known to have sinned because she came

to the new world without her husband and gave birth to Pearl.

While standing on the scaffold, she notices a gentleman standing next to

an Indian. This gentleman is who we know as Roger Chillingworth. Roger

Chillingworth is the husband of Hester. With Hester still on the scaffold, he

acts why she is standing there with the child. He is told that she has

committed adultery .

Hester returns to prison and Roger Chillingworth visits her. He gives

Pearl a drink to make her stop crying and talks to Hester about her sin. She

tells him she won't tell him who she slept with and he asks her not to tell

anyone that he is her husband. Hester agrees to this.

Hester is released from prison. She makes a living by her amazing sewing

abilities. As Peal gets a little older, Hester tries to discipline her.

However, Pearl seems to love to be rebellious. This brings Hester and Pearl

to governor Bellingham's. Hester is there to deliver some gloves she made,

but is truly there because she has heard that they might take Pearl away from

her. She dresses Pearl up and talks to Bellingham, who is in company of

Dimmesdale, Wilson,and Chillingsworth.

These men are in a meeting to determine weather or not Pearl will stay

with her. The four men see Pearl first and ask her were she comes from.