Winston Churchill once pronounced, “If you're going through hell, keep going.” The former prime minister of England tries to push across the point of how you handle your hardships, directly reflects your rewards at the end of the road. Many of the characters, in The Other Wes Moore learned this lesson with difficulty since they chose the wrong path. The path to money and dark power often leads behind bars or to a grave. The Scarlet Letter exemplifies how mistakes can lead to a dark grave. Many of the personas in the story took the wrong path and paid for their decisions in the end of the novel. Throughout The Scarlet Letter and The Other Wes Moore, the use of indirect characterization and imagery highlights the many characters who succumb
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In the middle of the novel, Chillingworth slowly creeps into the mind of Dimmesdale which institutes him to feel guilty about his actions. To help Dimmesdale’s guilty thoughts, he uses, “A bloody scourge . . . [Dimmesdale] had plied it on his own shoulders” (Hawthorne 132). The horrid imagery of pain and suffering causes the reader to wonder why Dimmesdale will not confess his sins openly to the public. Instead of receiving public humiliation, he decides that physical pain will suffice, and spare him the emotional remorse. At the end of the story, after Dimmesdale and Chillingworth dies, the narrator states that, “In no long time after the physician’s death, the wearer of the scarlet letter disappeared”(Hawthorne 233). A year after Dimmesdale rehashes the events that transpired between him and Hester, she leaves the town due to the reappearing scrutiny. Hester overcomes the constant threats originally in the story. However, her sudden leave helps us to indirectly characterize her as not wanting to endure the mental tortures again. By taking the easy way out, she loses the life that took her years to cultivate. Hester and Dimmesdale suffice it to say succumbed to the hardships that appeared constantly in their …show more content…
Throughout The Other Wes Moore, the “other” Wes faces crossroads where he can decide between the easy way with the risk of prison and the hard way with the risk of becoming unemployed. His constant choice of the easy way indirectly displays to the reader much of his personality. For the duration of The Scarlet Letter, both Dimmesdale and Hester resolve to walking away and suffering instead completing their public humiliation. The use of indirect characterization and imagery accentuates the many characters in The Other Wes Moore and The Scarlet Letter who surrender to their difficulties. Instead of persevering through hell, they decided to avoid the hardships of
In the middle of the novel, Chillingworth slowly creeps into the mind of Dimmesdale which institutes him to feel guilty about his actions. To help Dimmesdale’s guilty thoughts, he uses, “A bloody scourge . . . [Dimmesdale] had plied it on his own shoulders” (Hawthorne 132). The horrid imagery of pain and suffering causes the reader to wonder why Dimmesdale will not confess his sins openly to the public. Instead of receiving public humiliation, he decides that physical pain will suffice, and spare him the emotional remorse. At the end of the story, after Dimmesdale and Chillingworth dies, the narrator states that, “In no long time after the physician’s death, the wearer of the scarlet letter disappeared”(Hawthorne 233). A year after Dimmesdale rehashes the events that transpired between him and Hester, she leaves the town due to the reappearing scrutiny. Hester overcomes the constant threats originally in the story. However, her sudden leave helps us to indirectly characterize her as not wanting to endure the mental tortures again. By taking the easy way out, she loses the life that took her years to cultivate. Hester and Dimmesdale suffice it to say succumbed to the hardships that appeared constantly in their …show more content…
Throughout The Other Wes Moore, the “other” Wes faces crossroads where he can decide between the easy way with the risk of prison and the hard way with the risk of becoming unemployed. His constant choice of the easy way indirectly displays to the reader much of his personality. For the duration of The Scarlet Letter, both Dimmesdale and Hester resolve to walking away and suffering instead completing their public humiliation. The use of indirect characterization and imagery accentuates the many characters in The Other Wes Moore and The Scarlet Letter who surrender to their difficulties. Instead of persevering through hell, they decided to avoid the hardships of