Scarlet Letter D.J. # 6 - Chapter 3: Part 2.

"Again, at the first instant of perceiving that thin visage, and the slight deformity of the figure, she pressed her infant to her bosom with so convulsive a force that the poor babe uttered another cry of pain. But the mother did not seem to hear it," Hester has now noticed a familiar face in the crowd who we find out later is her husband, who she hasn't seen it years. He is standing with an Indian man, they are similarly dressed meaning that her husband has spent a lot of time with the indians. It makes you wonder about the relationship they had in the past. Later in the book, her husband said, "that whoever her husband may have been must have been foolish to think he could keep a young wife happy". This maybe shows a little regret seeing how when he left she was obviously tempted by another man and he may have thought that he could keep Hester happy and make it so she would not cheat, but as we can tell, he did not.

Scarlet Letter D.J. # 5 - Chapter 3: Part 1.

"A writhing horror twisted itself across his features, like a snake gliding swiftly over them" In the bible a snake makes Eve eat the apple and get her and Adam kicked out of Heaven. The snake tempted Eve to eat from the tree of knowledge and told her, "that it would make her more like God and it wouldn't lead to death". She decided to listen and ate the apple from the tree. The snake was the deceiver in the Garden of Eden, and symbolizes evil and persuasion. The snake in the story is related to the man, hints that he's evil.

Scarlet Letter D.J. # 4 - Chapter 2: Part 2.

"Those who had before known her, and had expected to behold her dimmed and obscured by a disastrous cloud, were astonished, and even startled to perceive how her beauty shone out, and made a halo of the misfortune and ignominy in which she was enveloped." The towns people are expecting her to look horrible, but she is beautiful and the way she is dressed is also extremely beautiful, and nobody understands why. To them, she is a horrible person for the sin she had committed. They think she is a whore who sleeps around with anybody, the standards of how a whore looks is bad, so her beauty shows that she is not a whore, and that she is and pure.

Scarlet Letter D.J. # 3 - Chapter 2: Part 1.

In the second chapter the plot begins. The plot starts with Hester Prynne (Not a dude, sounds like a guys name, but its not!) stepping out of the prison with the whole town staring at her. On her chest she had a big scarlet letter, the letter was an "A". It stands for “adulterer”, this was because of the sin she had committed.

The letter is described as “so artistically done, and with so much fertility and gorgeous luxuriance of fancy, that it had all the effort of a last and fitting decoration to the apparel which she wore” (pg. 50) and that it had “the effect of a spell, taking her out of the ordinary relations with humanity, and enclosing her in a sphere by herself.” (pg. 50)

The letter "A" has the same color as the rose-bush, mentioned in chapter one. It has nearly the same effect as the letter does. It catches everyone’s attention and directs it to the sins of the world.

Scarlet Letter D.J. #2 - Chapter 1: Part 2.

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.

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

In the first chapter of The Scarlet Letter the author, Nathaniel Hawthorne, describes the location of the story. One of the main things he describes is the prison; which is built on, ‘virgin soil’ (pg. 45 Line: 8-10). He calls the prison ‘the black flower of civilized society’ (pg. 45 Line: 27). 

A prison is supposed to be an evil place where prisoners who have broken the law in horrible ways are supposed to go. If you were ask someone to think of these people, I’m sure they would think of them in grey and black prison uniforms that are very depressing, which is how Hawthorne describes them ‘A throng of men, in sad-colored garments…and studded with iron spikes’ (pg. 45 Lines: 1-5). That explains why Hawthorne used the word ‘Black’ in the quote, ‘A black flower of civilized society’, but why did Hawthorne call the jail a flower? I believe he chose this because, the Puritans’ idea of their new colony was a utopia. The prison is like the black sheep of the family (colony), the only place in and around Boston, where the founders couldn’t hide the badness of their creation. A different interpretation might be that Hawthorne chose the flower because it grew because of the society. The society is to blame for the fact that the world needs buildings like this.

1. Several countries participated in the airlift: Italy, Belgium, France, and Luxembourg.

2. "Only one course was open to us, surrender", said the ex-major, "and we did".

3. Judge Carswell--later to be nominated for the Supreme Court--had ruled against civil rights.

4. In last week's New Yorker, one of my favorite magazines, I enjoyed reading Leland's article "How Not to Go Camping".

5. "Yes", Jim said, "I'll be home by ten".