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Sometimes beauty is found in places as unexpected as a rosebush growing
outside of a prison in a puritan colonial village. Pearl Prynne is an
unearthly beautiful child with a wild spirit born under unimaginably sinful
conditions, all of which are somehow related to the ideas, actions, and
views of others on Hester's punishment. In Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet
Letter, Pearl serves as Hester's living, breathing Scarlet letter.
Pearl evokes the same emotion and reactions from the townspeople, as does
the scarlet letter. The people look at the slight sense of pride Hester has
in her letter in the same way they look at the way Hester lets Pearl do
whatever she wants. They feel Hester isn't fit to raise the child. The
extremity of gossip from the females of the village in the beginning of the
book is only matched by the amount that Pearl's wild attitude stirs up later
on. Hester's "A" is the example for all of what sin is. The "A" makes Hester
much avoided......

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