Scarlet Letter D.J. # 15 - Chapter 8: Part 1.

"The child finally announced that she had not been made at all, but had been plucked by her mother off the bush of wild roses, that grew by the prison door." (pg. 99 paragraph 2) She refused to answer Mr. Wilson's question many times. She knew who had made her, who her heavenly father was, but instead decided to be stubborn, this is like Hester when she was first put on the scaffolding and didn't tell the town who the father was. Then she told him that her mother had plucked her from a rose bush by the jail. I believe that the author is trying to say that the rose bush is like the town and the roses are like the people of the town. If you get plucked from the bush then you are free from the town and the other people in it and you are free to do what you want, like Pearl.