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Do Hester and Pearl go to England?
How will Hester's life be changed without having a husband and the father of her child?
Will Dimmesdale go to heaven because he regretted and repented for what he did or hell because of the fact that he did it?
• Other (connections to modern life or your personal life):
In the the book Jason and Mike Killian read, Swimming to Antarctica, at my points in Lyne Cox's life she could have stopped swimming because of all she accomplished but this would have given her life no more purppose, just like what happened with Chillingworth. Lynne decided to create new challenges so there was always something to strive for unlike Chillingworth who once he completed his goal he did not think of anything else to do with his life.

Other (connections to modern life or your personal life)
Pearl not comfortable around Dimmesdale is similar to when a child’s parent divorces and gets a new parent. In the book, Pearl wipes off Dimmesdale’s kiss off her cheek because she feels uncomfortable around Dimmesdale. It is understandable because Peal doesn’t know that Dimmesdale is her father. Just like Pearl, when a child get a new parent, he or she will feel uncomfortable for first few months because he or she knows that it’s not his or her true parent.
Chapter 22 – 24
Symbolism
The symbol on Dimmesdale’s chest: some people say that they hadn’t seen anything and it was just an emotional pain. It symbolizes the guilt that he kept the secret about the adultery.
Pearl’s kiss to Dimmesdale: it symbolizes her forgiveness of Hester and Dimmesdale.
Character Behavior or psychology
Dimmesdale: he starts to show the real side of him and shows that he loves Hester and Pearl. Because his secrets were all revealed, he could prepare the proper and better sermon, and he could die in peace.
Roger Chillingworth: he wants Dimmesdale to die and he lost the purpose of his life. It shows that he had no life throughout and since he has nothing to do, he dies.
Pearl: she changed. She is not a demon child anymore and she found who her father is. She is no longer considered as the lie and sin of her mom, so that makes her less-demon like child. She can live peacefully like other children.
Hester: After Dimmesdale and Hester reveal the truth, she is finally able to live the town without the pain of scarlet letter.
Interesting Passage
Pg 230: “So Pearl – the elf-child, - the demon offspring, as some people, up to that epoch, persisted in considering her – became the richest heiress of her day, in the New World.” This passage shows that Pearl is not demon child anymore.
Pg 200: “On this eventful day, moreover, there was a certain singular inquietude and excitement in her mood, resembling nothing so much as the shimmer of a diamond, that sparkles and flashes with the varied throbbings of the breast on which it is displayed.” This shows that on this day, Pearl was special, she wasn’t the demon child that she once was, and is now a proud woman, capable of spreading outside of the sphere of childhood.
Questions/Prediction you have:
Will Pearl able to escape the scarlet letter that haunted her life?
Will Hester ever able to escape the scarlet letter?
Will Pearl learn from her mother’s lesson?
Will Pearl able to interact with other children?
Why would Chillingworth devote his life to revenge? Is it worth of the outcome?
Why would Hester return to the village few years later?
Other (connection to modern life or your personal life)
The mob mentality is apparent, especially in the final scenes at the scaffold. When the minister admits his sin of adultery, the crowd labels him automatically. Therefore, when he lifts his shirt, many of the crowd members see a letter “A” on his chest. They could be imagining it, but other people feel like they should be seeing it too and play along. The opposite happens as well with the people who don’t see the letter. These are the good people that don’t label a person based on their sins.

• Interesting Passages (note the page number):
• Questions/ Predictions you have:
Do Hester and Pearl go to England?
How will Hester's life be changed without having a husband and the father of her child?
• Other (connections to modern life or your personal life):
In the the book Jason and Mike Killian read, Swimming to Antarctica, at my points in Lyne Cox's life she could have stopped swimming because of all she accomplished but this would have given her life no more purppose, just like what happened with Chillingworth. Lynne decided to create new challenges so there was always something to strive for unlike Chillingworth who once he completed his goal he did not think of anything else to do with his life.

Character Behavior and Psychology: When Dimmesdale is dying on the scaffold, CHillingworth becomes very remorseful of his death. He went from resenting Dimmesdale to not wanting him to go. Chillingworth, who was previously extremely cold towards Hester and Pearl, left all of his property to Pearl.
Questions/Predictions: Is Pearl going to be a much more forgiving and understanding person because of what she has been through? Will she follow her mother's footsteps and be an adulterer? Pearl will most likely live a fulfilling life surrounded by people who are only worth her time. She will not waste her life away on people that will be judgmental against her. The experience with her mother made her strong, and she will be strong until the day she dies.
Interesting Passage: "According to these highly respectable witnesses, the minister, conscious that he was dying,—conscious, also, that the reverence of the multitude placed him already among saints and angels,—had desired, by yielding up his breath in the arms of that fallen woman, to express to the world how utterly nugatory is the choicest of man’s own righteousness. After exhausting life in his efforts for mankind’s spiritual good, he had made the manner of his death a parable, in order to impress on his admirers the mighty and mournful lesson, that, in the view of Infinite Purity, we are sinners all alike." Chapter 24. This passage is interesting because it describes how the whole situation between Hester and Dimmesdale was a story and things were meant to happen. It shows that this is going to be a story that people are going to use to tell of what they should not do.

Will Pearl kiss Dimmesdale, and if so, will it have any significance?
Chapter 24
Imagery
The fact that many people saw different things the day that Dimmesdale died casts a little bit of doubt on whether or not he actually bore the Scarlet Letter on his chest. Since Chillingworth's purpose was to destroy Dimmesdale, now that he is dead, Chillingworth no longer has a purpose and he too dies. At the beginning, both Hester and Dimmesdale each had a Scarlet Letter on their chest, one hidden and one known, but at the end, they share a gravestone with a single A on it.
Character Behavior
Chillingworth loses his purpose in life and due to this dies. This leaves Pearl a vast inheritance, but for some reason both she and Hester disappear, most likely to show that they got away from their place of shame as well as the place of death of Dimmesdale.
Interesting Passages
"Leaving this discussion apart, we have a matter of business to communicate to the reader. At old Roger Chillingworth’s decease (which took place within the year), and by his last will and testament, of which Governor Bellingham and the Reverend Mr. Wilson were executors, he bequeathed a very considerable amount of property, both here and in England, to little Pearl, the daughter of Hester Prynne. "

Imagery/Symbolism:
Mistress Hibbins may represent Hester's second thoughts about fleeing overseas with Dimmesdale. As she was already put off by the strength he seemed to show int he marketplace, Mistress Hibbins then proceeds to tell her how the Devil is Pearl's real father.
Interesting Passages:
" 'Now, what mortal imagination could conceive it?' whispered the old lady confidentially to Hester. 'Yonder divine man! That saint on earth, as the people uphold him to be, and as--I must needs say--he really looks! Who, now, that saw him pass in the procession, would think how little while it is since he went forth out of his study--chewing a Hebrew text of Scripture in his mouth, I warrant--to take an airing in the forest! Aha! we know what that means, Hester Prynne! But truly, forsooth, I find it hard to believe him the same man. Many a church member saw I, walking behind the music, that has danced in the same measure with me, when Somebody was fiddler, and, it might be, an Indian powwow or a Lapland wizard changing hands with us! That is but a trifle, when a woman knows the world. But this minister. Couldst thou surely tell, Hester, whether he was the same man that encountered thee on the forest path?'" Page 212-213
Character Behavior or Psychology:
Pearl barely recognizes Dimmesdale int he marketplace, although she had seen him just the other day in the forest. Once she recognizes him, she expresses to Hester that she is compelled to kiss him in return for the kiss on the forehead he had given her int he forest. Hester scolds her and makes it clear that she cannot do that.

Predictions
It is hard to figure out what may happen next, but soon Dimmesdale and Chillingworth will be put face to face over the sin that Hester committed. Next, I think that Chillingworth will further ruin the two's plans by taking away Pearl or telling everyone of the ministers connection with Hester, tearing the two apart and destroying the plans of leaving together that they had.
Chapter 22
Imagery/Symbolism:
Mistress Hibbins may represent Hester's second thoughts about fleeing overseas with Dimmesdale. As she was already put off by the strength he seemed to show int he marketplace, Mistress Hibbins then proceeds to tell her how the Devil is Pearl's real father.
Character Behavior or Psychology:
Pearl barely recognizes Dimmesdale int he marketplace, although she had seen him just the other day in the forest. Once she recognizes him, she expresses to Hester that she is compelled to kiss him in return for the kiss on the forehead he had given her int he forest. Hester scolds her and makes it clear that she cannot do that.
Chillingworth invites Hester and Pearl to board the ship alone, as he will make separate plans to have Dimmesdale board after his sermon.
Predictions/ Questions:
Why would Chillingworth want to have Hester and Pearl board the ship separately from Dimmesdale?
Will Pearl kiss Dimmesdale, and if so, will it have any significance?
Chapter 24

• Imagery/ Symbolism:
Had a scarlet letter actually appeared on Dimmesdale's chest that would mean that he has received the punishment that Hester did because too committed a crime. Also that fact that only some saw a scarlet letter appear on his chest means that not everyone in the town believes that Dimmesdale is guilty of any crime.
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Chillingworth and Dimmesdale die. Dimmesdale cannot bare to live with what he has done and so after Pearl kisses him, something that she has never done before, he dies. Because Chillingworth spent practically all of the recent past trying to torment Dimmesdale he feels that he has no more purpose in life and soon dies.
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• Other (connections your personal life):• Other (connectionslife):
In the the book Jason and Mike Killian read, Swimming to modernAntarctica, at my points in Lyne Cox's life or your personal life):
she could have stopped swimming because of all she accomplished but this would have given her life no more purppose, just like what happened with Chillingworth. Lynne decided to create new challenges so there was always something to strive for unlike Chillingworth who once he completed his goal he did not think of anything else to do with his life.

What are Dimmesdale's and Hester's plans once they get to Europe and how will Chillingworth being their affect what they do?
Other
Chapter 22-24
• Imagery/ Symbolism:
Had a scarlet letter actually appeared on Dimmesdale's chest that would mean that he has received the punishment that Hester did because too committed a crime. Also that fact that only some saw a scarlet letter appear on his chest means that not everyone in the town believes that Dimmesdale is guilty of any crime.
x--• Character Behavior or Psychology:• Character Behavior or Psychology:
Chillingworth and Dimmesdale die. Dimmesdale cannot bare to live with what he has done and so after Pearl kisses him, something that she has never done before, he dies. Because Chillingworth spent practically all of the recent past trying to torment Dimmesdale he feels that he has no more purpose in life and soon dies.
x--• Interesting Passages (note the page number):• Interesting Passages (note the page number):
x--• Questions/ Predictions you have:• Questions/ Predictions you have:
x--• Other (connections to modern life or your personal life):• Other (connections to modern life or your personal life):

Questions/ Predictions
Why did Hester return back to the town many years after?
happened to Pearl; wherePearl-where is she living; isliving-is she married?
Did Dimmesdale and Chillingworth's hatred really turn to love in the spiritual life?
Why was Chillingworth so miserable after Dimmesdale died?