Nathaniel Hawthorne included this brief paragraph in his first chapter to create a setting and to bring upon us the readers the possible theme of sin. Nathaniel brings up the word “utopia” which means a perfect world, but how will one live in a perfect world where humans commit sins. So the founders knew that it wouldn't be a perfect world so they needed a cemetery and a jail. In collaboration in the text it stated, “forefathers of Boston had built the first prison-house somewhere in the Vicinity of Cornhill, almost as seasonably as they marked out the first burial-ground”(lines 9-12) In other words the founders had the plans of constructing a utopia but once they saw there might be possible sinners they didn't think twice about building a
