"So she drew her mother away, skipping, dancing, and frisking fantastically among the hillocks of the dead people, like a creature that had nothing in common with a bygone and buried generation, nor owned herself akin to it." (pg. 118 second paragraph) Pearl earlier in the story called Chillingsworth a "Black Man," but also told her mother that he could catch her and she needed to get away. The story says that she has nothing in common with the dead people buried in the graveyard, but I think this is wrong. Once you die you escape from the society. Pearl had already escaped due to the fact that she was a born outcast because of her mother's sin. She danced, and skipped through the graveyard to show the freedom that she has, which is the freedom the people in the graveyard have.
Nice connection. Yes, you're corrected both the dead and Pearl have escaped this society, through those with sin in their heart, like the "A", have this sin grow out of the grave.
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