As well in the first chapter the author brings up a wild rose bush "But, on the other side of the portal, and rooted almost at the threshold, was a wild rose bush... their fragrance and fragile beauty to the prisoner as he went in... came forth to his doom, in token that the deep heart of nature could pity and be kind to him"(pg. 45-46 Lines 28-34). The rose bush is a symbol for many things in this chapter. One of them is hope, this beautiful rose bush out side of an old and nasty looking jail. The people who are in the jail see it and it makes them think of all the beautiful things that they will never see again. It makes them think of all the good things in the world.
Another thing the rose bush symbolizes is that through all the destruction of nature by the people, this beautiful rose bush survived. I think the author, calling the rose bush “wild” makes the prisoners look at it in envy, because according to the puritans all things in nature are pure, and the fact that they are going to jail means that they aren’t pure anymore.
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