Estudiante

Jose Solivan Matta
Prof. El Gammal
English 12 (bl.1)
October 1, 2012
Th Scarlet Letter
There was a woman named Hetser who hadcommited adultery. She has a daughter named Pearl. Hester is told to spell out the name of Pearl’s father. Her husband is from Amsterdam and isfound in prision. He tells her not to reveal anything. Hester moves into a cottage bordering the woods. She and Pearl live there inrelative solitude. Hester earns her money by doing stitch work for local dignitaries, but she often spends her time helping the poor and sick.Pearl grows up to be wild, even refusing to obey her mother. Hester sees Chillingworth picking herbs in the woods. She tells him that sheis going to reveal the fact that he is her husband to Dimmesdale. He tells her that Providence is now in charge of their fates, and shemay do as she sees fit. Hester takes Pearl into the woods, where they wait for Dimmesdale to arrive. He is surprised to see them, but heconfesses to Hester that he is desperate for a friend who knows his secret. Hester and Pearl join Dimmesdale. Dimmesdale then tells thepeople that he is also a sinner like Hester, and then rips open his shirt to reveal a scarlet letter on his flesh. Dimmesdale falls to hisknees and dies on the scaffold. Hester never removes her scarlet letter, and when she passes away she is buried in the site of King's Chapel.