Hester Prynne: the outcast

Hester Prynne in this chapter is shown to us to be outcast-ed by her community except for when someone of high class needs her home made cloth and designs. Because of Puritan Law, the lower class had to wear clothes and accessories that never stood out, but the upper class ignored this, and called for Hester's handiwork with her sewing needle. In this chapter we also find out that Hester stays in the colony in an effort to be cleansed of her sin(adultery), by being punished in the place where she committed her sin. In my opinion I didn't really like this chapter, I felt that the story got almost nowhere besides telling us where Hester was staying, the sex of her child, and that she wants to pay for her sin, not run from it, which could've taken about 5 pages not 30 plus.

The Scarlet Letter

The Scarlet Letter so far in the book seems to paint a very dismal almost evil picture in my mind, the image of the older women condemning Hester, the prison with the bush just out of reach, but in comparison to the movie, the book paints a better picture. Somewhere/sometime you (mr cook) said that Hawthorne had a relative that served as a judge for the Salem Mass. Witch Trials, who you said Hawthorne was not very proud of, to a degree he would change hes name, and I think I can see a compensation of the relative in Mr. Dimmesdale. Mr. Dimmesdale is the young guy who tries to talk Hester into telling of her "partner"; Dimmesdale is said to be well respected in the town, and to me seems very respectable and has a proud appearance, maybe a contrast to the old relative. Rodger Prynne/Chillingworth to me seems psychotic, he talks in an intelligent and sane tone, but his syntax and plans seem totally insane. I feel like Rodger is going to in some way torture the father of Hester's baby, once he finds him. Hester also seems strange to me, in the book it says she holds her baby almost as a shield, not in a maternal way, but in the movie I don't really see that shown. So far the story is ok, getting better in my mind.