Scarlet Letter D.J. # 24 - Chapter 12: Part 2.

"She silently ascended the steps, and stood on the platform, holding little Pearl by the handThe minister felt for the child’s other hand, and took it. The moment that he did so, there came what seemed a tumultuous rush of new life, other life than his own, pouring like a torrent into his heart, and hurrying through all his veins, as if the mother and the child were communicating their vital warmth to his half-torpid system. The three formed an electric chain." (pg. 134 second paragraph) Being with Pearl and Hester, and holding Pearl's hand makes Dimmesdale automatically feel better. They together make a bond that makes the minister feel better, that no medicine of the time could. The pain that he has been feeling is gone in an instant when he is up there with his "family". Pearl is kind of a symbol of nature a light and her mother is also connected to nature so when he holds them the darkness inside of him disappears. Pearl brings light to his life, and he could keep the light with him if he just confessed to the whole town his sin.