The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne - 775 Words

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the main characters of this book are Reverend Author Dimmesdale, Pearl, Roger Chillingworth, Governor Bellingham, Mistress Hibbins, John Wilson, and Hester Prynne. The setting of this book is mid 17th century New England, Boston, Massachusetts, Bay Colony. The forefathers of Boston had built the first prison-house around Vicinity of Cornhill, the old jail showed weather stains which gave it a dark aspect. There was a rose bush as the prisoners arrived. A sluggish band servant or an undutiful child was given over to the civil authority. Old Mistress Hibbins was being accused and went to jail everyone feared as Mistress Prynne stepped into the jail. There was a woman holding a child, she†¦show more content†¦Hester did not speak to name the child’s father. She was led back to the prison. As she got back to the prison she was at a nervous excited state, a practitioner came in to the prison and talked to Hester. The practitioner gave the baby a drink that made her sleep. Hester did not name the fathers name. Hester was then released from prison. She believed she got a understanding knowledge that all have shame and all should have a letter on them. Hester called her child Pearl, she would be with Pearl always, the c hildren would try talking to Pearl, but Pearl would simply keep to her self and stay with her mother. Pearl would always notice the scarlet letter on the mother. Hester would ask Pearl who sent you and are you my child as she was in deep suffering, then Pearl would ask who brought me, the mother simply said your heavenly father. Hester went to governor Bellingham’s mansion to take a pair of embroidered gloves. Pearl and her mother were looked at as sinful and many would try to throw mud at them, as Pearl would defend herself. As they got to the governor’s house there was a bondservant who let them in and did not know of anything of the scarlet letter but saw Hester as a royal lady. The governor asked that Pearl be taken to learn the ways of Christianity. Wilson then talked to Pearl and asked her who made her, Pearl refused to answer and said she was not made but plucked from a rosebush next to a prison door. The governor looked surprised and told Hester that someone