Scarlet Letter D.J. # 20 - Chapter 10: Part 2.

“This man,” said he, at one such moment, to himself, “pure as they deem him,—all spiritual as he seems,—hath inherited a strong animal nature from his father or his mother. Let us dig a little farther in the direction of this vein!” (pg. 113 paragraph 3) The book repeatedly mention that children are the way they are because of there parents. (Pearl is a demon because of the wrong her parents committed. Chillingworth is saying that Dimmesdale has inherited an animal like nature from one of his parents.) This relates to present times, because people are the way they are because of there parents in the present as well. The difference is now people are the way they are because of the way there parents raised them, rather then back then where children are supposedly the way they are just from the way there parents were or because of the bad things there parents did.

Scarlet Letter D.J. # 19 - Chapter 10: Part 1.

"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.

vocab 10/24/11

1) Dearth - N - an inadequate supply; scarcity; lacking - the dearth of money made the hobo sad.

2) Magnate - N - a person of great influence, importance - the president is a magnate in the eyes of the congress.

3) Veneration - N - the act of showing respect - the veneration towards tupac at his funeral was great. 


4) Opaque - ADJ - not transparent or translucent; impenetrable to light; notallowing light to pass through.
a natural inclination or tendency - the brick wall was opaque because the brick house with no windows or lights was pitch black

5) Florid - ADJ - reddish; ruddy; rosy - The rose was florid, it was like the Scarlet Letter on Hester's bosom

6) Esoteric - ADJ - understood by or meant for only the select few who havespecial knowledge or interest - Some things that K.C. say are esoteric.

7) Malleable - ADJ - adaptable or tractable.

8) Evanescent - ADJ - vanishing; fading away.

9) Vitiated - to impair or weaken the effectiveness of. - to impair or weaken the effectiveness of.

10) Propensity - N - a natural inclination or tendency.

Scarlet Letter D.J. # 18 - Chapter 9: Part 2.

"His first entry on the scene, few people could tell whence, dropping down, as it were, out of the sky, or starting from the nether earth, had an aspect of mystery, which was easily heightened to the miraculous" (pg. 106 2nd paragraph) If you were to fall from heaven, that is like what happened to Lucifer (the devil), but to arise from the ground you would be coming from hell. Every one in the town is thinking that he is a good person because he is a skilled doctor, so they are not asking to many question of his origin. His medicine is from nature which in unlike the normal puritan medicine, but he knows what he is doing so again, they do not ask questions. It is obvious to a reader, but not to the towns people that he is evil.

Scarlet Letter D.J. # 17 - Chapter 9: Part 1.

"He chose to withdraw his name from the roll of mankind, and, as regarded his former ties and interests, to vanish out of life as completely as if he indeed lay at the bottom of the ocean." (pg. 104 3/4 down the page) The bottom of the ocean has shadows and that means that it is dark and scary and very few things can live down there. I believe the author is talking about hell when he talks about the bottom ofthe ocean.

Scarlet Letter D.J. # 16 - Chapter 8: Part 2.

"the physician as well as friend of the young minister, whose health had severely suffered, of late, by his too unreserved self-sacrifice to the labors and duties of the pastoral relation." (second paragraph on pg. 96 but continues on page 97) Dimmesdale is obviously loves his job as the Reverend, so you would think that someone who is so devoted to what they do would never do anything to lose it. Sadly peoples emotions can sometimes control them, and he must have loved Hester because I don't think he would do something like this without being in love. Whats ironic is that him and Roger are friends. They are unaware of whom each other are. What Roger does not know is that the man standing next to him is the person he has been searching for from that day in the prison, and the man that he is going to "not get revenge on".

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.