Pearl.

The passage on page 117 mid page, "In reply to her mother's command and entreaty that she would behave decorously little Pearl paused to gather the prickly burrs from a tall burdock, which grew beside a tomb. Taking a handful of these, she arranged them along the lines of the scarlet letter that decorated the maternal bosom, to which the burrs, as their nature was, tenaciously adhered. Hester did not pluck them off. " I like this quote because not only does Pearls way of acting makes me laugh, but it really shows that Pearl has no respect for her mother, and marches to the beat of her own drum. Even though she is young she knows that something has happened to her mother to make her have to wear the scarlet letter. So with this she knows she can disrespect her mother, by not only not listening and doing the exact opposite of what she is told, but also reminding her mother that she has this thing on her clothes that make her a pariah, by putting burrs around it. And Hester just lets her do it, cause she feels guilty for bringing her into this world in the way she does. Not only does Pearl have no respect or rules with her mother, but she behaves this way with everyone and thing she encounters. " There is no law, nor reverence for authority, no regard for human ordinances or opinions, right or wrong, mixed up with that child's composition. I saw, her the other day, bespatter the Governor himself with water, at the cattle-trough in Spring Lane. What, in Heavens name, is she? Is the imp altogether evil? Hath she affections? Hath she any discoverable principle of being?" Roger Chillingworth states. Then Dimmesdale states " None,- save the freedom of a broken law." Pearl automatically doesn't need to fallow the rules in law, cause she was made in an act of sin against the laws and principles of life. She is an outcast by birth, so her mother and everyone else treats her like one, and lets her not fallow rules. Will she be like this forever? Or will she change for the better, and be an amazing person?