scarlet letter blog

"After putting her finger in her mouth, with many ungracious refusals to answer good Mr. Wilson's question, the child finally announced that she had not been made at all, but plucked by her mother off the bush of wild roses, that grew by the prison-door." Page 99 The first thing I thought of when I read this was how Hawthorn described the rose bush in the very begining of this novel. "...with its delicate gems, which might be imagined to offer thier fragrance and fragile beauty to the prisoner as he went in, and to condemned criminal as he came forth to his doom, in token that deep heart of Nature could pity and be kind to him." I think these two quotes put next to each other show how Pearl could possibly be a delicate gem that offers something to criminals going back and forth from prison. It could also be foreshadowing something about Pearls part in this book. Another way this could be describing pearl is her unquestionable beauty, much like a rose flower. It could also point out how pearl may be beautful like a rose bud, but as the saying goes, every rose has it's thorn. Meaing that Pearl could be twisted and evil on the inside and how she'll always be tied down to the jail, or sin that she was made out of. Or she could just be a smart ass to the magistrates, which probably won't help her stay with Hester during the rest of this book.