The Scarlet Letter is a framed story. The Narrator works at a customhouse in Salem Massachusetts, one day he discovers an uncompleted manuscript in the attic and a patch of cloth in the shape of an A. When he picks up the piece of cloth he feels as though he has been burned. The manuscript is a log describing events that happened around two hundred years ago. The narrator decides to finish the story and so he writes The Scarlet Letter. The story is set in 1600’s and depicts the life of Hester Prynne. In the beginning of the story, Hester comes out of the jail clutching a baby in her arms. She is then lead to a scaffold, a raised platform, and publicly shamed for hours. The townspeople make fun of the scarlet A embroidered on Hester’s chest. Event the children make fun
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Dimmesdale will spend hours awake praying, whipping himself and denying himself food. One night Dimmesdale cannot sleep her he climbs the scaffold where Hester once was forced to stand. Dimmesdale all of a sudden feels a sharp pain in his chest and lets out a loud cry; this alerts the attention of Hester and Pearl who happen to be returning home after visiting the dead governor. Hester and Pearl climb up and join Dimmesdale on the scaffold once they are all standing up they link arms a meteor shoots across the sky making the letter A. Dimmesdale and Hester view it as A for adulterer but the rest of the town sees it as A for angel because of the governors death. Seven years passed since Pearl’s birth and Hester has become the town saint, helping and feeding those in need. The townspeople no longer interpret the A on her chest as adulterer rather they see it as A stands for able. Hester wants to tell Dimmesdale about Roger and so Hester plans to meet Roger in the woods and tell him her decision. They meet in the woods and Hester tells him that she is going to tell Dimmesdale about their pervious marriage to each
Dimmesdale will spend hours awake praying, whipping himself and denying himself food. One night Dimmesdale cannot sleep her he climbs the scaffold where Hester once was forced to stand. Dimmesdale all of a sudden feels a sharp pain in his chest and lets out a loud cry; this alerts the attention of Hester and Pearl who happen to be returning home after visiting the dead governor. Hester and Pearl climb up and join Dimmesdale on the scaffold once they are all standing up they link arms a meteor shoots across the sky making the letter A. Dimmesdale and Hester view it as A for adulterer but the rest of the town sees it as A for angel because of the governors death. Seven years passed since Pearl’s birth and Hester has become the town saint, helping and feeding those in need. The townspeople no longer interpret the A on her chest as adulterer rather they see it as A stands for able. Hester wants to tell Dimmesdale about Roger and so Hester plans to meet Roger in the woods and tell him her decision. They meet in the woods and Hester tells him that she is going to tell Dimmesdale about their pervious marriage to each