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//The Scarlet Letter Reading Assignments //

//Pre-reading assignment //

//Section One // //Chapters 1-8 //

//See packet for questions and activity //

//*Extra Credit Option* // //Read, summarize, and comment on The Custom House. // //Section Two // //Chapters 9-16 //

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//Section Three – // //Chapters 17-24 //

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//Take Home Final – //

//The Scarlet Letter //

Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Hawthorne was born July 4th, 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts. He began to add the w to his last name when he published his books. He is a direct descendant of the original Puritans and Judge Hathorne – original judge at the witch trials. It is believed that the family has a curse because of all the unjustified killings. He wrote Scarlet Letter in 1850 and it was an immediate success. He was the first American writer to gain international fame. His other most famous book, //The House of Seven Gables//, is about a curse that destroys a family. He died on May 19, 1864.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Scarlet Letter – Written in 1850 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Genre: Historical Fiction <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Setting: Mid-17th Century Boston Massachusetts <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Narrator: Omniscient subjective – gives his opinion on characters <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Themes: Sin, Human Condition, Evil, Society, Identity <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Motifs: Civilization vs. Wilderness, Night vs. Day <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Symbols, Scarlet Letter, Scaffold, Pearl, Rosebush

//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Characters: // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Hester Prynne - She is married to Chillingworth, but she never loved him. He sends her from England to the new colonies to set up a home and wait for him. She has an affair with the local reverend and becomes pregnant. She will not reveal the father and is shunned from society. She is forced to wear the letter A on her chest as a reminder of her sin.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Roger Chillingworth - He is a very cold man. He is referred to as a leech. Walks hunched over and deformed. He represents true evil. When he finally comes to town he pretends not to know Hester. When he realizes the Reverend is the father, he begins to torture him.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Arthur Dimmesdale - The scholar and Reverend who had the affair with Hester. Does not share in her public guilt, instead he suffers alone and at the hands of Chillingworth.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Pearl - The love child of Hester and Dimmesdale. She is another symbol of the sin. She is fixated on her mother’s scarlet letter. She is a devilish, troublesome child.

//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Vocabulary: // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Utopia - An ideally perfect place, especially in its social, political, and moral aspects. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Physiognomy - The art of judging human character from facial features. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Tribunal - A committee or board appointed to adjudicate in a particular matter. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Venerable - Commanding respect by virtue of age, dignity, character, or position. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Ignominy - Great personal dishonor or humiliation. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Mien - An appearance or aspect. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Preternatural - Out of or being beyond the normal course of nature; differing from the natural <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Iniquity - A grossly immoral act; a sin <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Sage - One venerated for experience, judgment, and wisdom. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Exhort - To urge by strong, often stirring argument, admonition, advice, or appeal. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Lurid - Causing shock or horror; gruesome. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Paramour - A lover, especially one in an adulterous relationship. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Infamy -Evil fame or reputation. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Progenitor - A direct ancestor. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Plebeian - A vulgar or coarse person. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Alchemy - A seemingly magical power or process of transmuting. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Martyr - One who makes a great show of suffering in order to arouse sympathy. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Talisman - Something that apparently has magic power. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Aver - To justify or prove. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Mutable - Capable of or subject to change or alteration. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Caprice - An impulsive change of mind. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Enmity - Deep-seated, often mutual hatred. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Dearth - A scarce supply. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Imp - A mischievous child. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Panoply - A splendid or striking array. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Latent - Present or potential but not evident or active: latent talent. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Antipathy - A strong feeling of aversion or repugnance. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Presentiment - A sense that something is about to occur; a premonition. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Dissemble - To disguise or conceal behind a false appearance. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Somnambulism – sleepwalking. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Zenith - The point on the celestial sphere that is directly above the observer. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Erudite - Characterized by erudition; learned. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Bane - Fatal injury or ruin. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Sportive - Playful; frolicsome. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Recompense - To award compensation to: recompensed the victims of the accident. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Necromancy - The practice of communicating with the spirits of the dead in order to predict the future. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Apotheosis - Exaltation to divine rank or stature; deification. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Stigma - A mark or token of infamy, disgrace, or reproach.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Theme: Alienation <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Discuss a time when you have felt lonely or left out.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Pre-Reading Activity ****<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">- **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">answer on a separate sheet of paper.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Theme: Appearance vs. Reality <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Discuss a time when someone or something you thought you knew was not really what it seemed to be.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Theme: Breaking Society’s Rules <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Discuss historical events in which groups of people have broken society’s rules. What was the outcome?

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">When are rules good for society?

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">When can they be bad for society?

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Discuss times when women take more blame than men.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Discuss times when men take more blame than women.

//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Chapter One: The Prison Door // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Describe the surrounding of the building.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Questions Part One - **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">answer on a separate sheet of paper.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">What does the rosebush represent?

//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Chapter Two: The Market Place // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Who among the crowd seemed to take the most interest in what was about to happen?

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">What was thought to be a better way to punish than what the magistrate had determined?

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">What went through Hester’s mind as she stood before the people?

//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Chapter Three: The Recognition // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Who attracted Hester’s attention on the outskirts of the crowd?

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">What kind of signal did he give her and what did it mean?

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">What prophecy did the stranger make as to the father of the baby?

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Describe Master Dimmesdale.

//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Chapter Four: The Interview // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Why has the stranger been brought to see Hester in jail?

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">What is his name and why is he being lodged in the prison?

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Does she reveal to him the name of the child’s father?

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">What command did he give Hester? Why?

//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Chapter Five: Hester and her Needle // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">When several possibilities arose for going somewhere else to live, why does she choose to remain in Boston?

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Describe the place where Hester established herself and the baby.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">How does she support herself and the baby?

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">How was she looked upon?

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">What did Hester do with any extra money she had?

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">What story did the vulgar make up about the symbolic letter?

//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Chapter Six: Pearl // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Why did Hester name her child Pearl?

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Describe Pearl.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">How did Pearl react to the other children? Why did she act that way?

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">How did she spend her playtime? //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Chapter Seven: The Governor’s Hall // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Why did Hester go to Governor Bellingham’s mansion?

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">What did Pearl see in the governor’s garden that interested her?

//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Chapter Eight: The Elf-child and the Minister // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">How does Pearl respond to Mr. Wilson’s question as to who made her?

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">What was the governor about to do because of her answer?

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Who interceded for her? What was his plea?


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Activities for Part One **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">– Choose one activity to complete

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">How do religious beliefs and colonial laws intermingle in this story? To what extent do religion and law mix in OUR society? Explain your answer in well thought out paragraphs.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Illustrate what you imagine the scarlet letter to look like.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Research crime and punishment during the Puritan times and explain how the punishments fit the crimes. Do you think the punishments were appropriate? Were they too strict or is our legal system too lenient? Explain your answers in well thought out paragraphs.

//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Chapter Nine: The Leech // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">What is a leech? How does this describe Roger Chillingworth?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Questions Part Two - **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">answer on a separate sheet of paper.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">How was Dimmesdale enduring the ordeal of his troubled conscience?

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">What became noticeable in the physician’s face after he begun to live with Dimmesdale?

//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Chapter Ten: The Leech and his Patient // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">What does Dimmesdale say to keep some from making a confession?

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">When Pearl saw Chillingworth, what did she say?

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">What did Chillingworth do one afternoon while the minister was sounding asleep?

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">What was his reaction to what he saw?

//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Chapter Eleven: The Interior of a Heart // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">How does the minister now regard the physician?

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">What was Dimmesdale’s relation now with his congregation and office?

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">How does Dimmesdale look upon himself?

//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Chapter Twelve: The Minister’s Vigil // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">What did Dimmesdale do in the middle of the night?

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">What did he do to wake the townspeople? What did they think the noise was? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">What did Pearl ask him?

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">What appeared in the heavens and what shape did his guilty imagination give it?

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">What did the sexton give to Dimmesdale the next morning? Where was it found and whom did the sexton say put it there?

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">How did the sexton interpret the letter A?

//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Chapter Thirteen: Another View of Hester // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">How much time has passed since the beginning of the book? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">How had the people come to look upon the letter A?

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">What did Hester plan to do about the effect Chillingworth was having on Dimmesdale?

//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Chapter Fourteen: Hester and the Physician // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">What changes can Hester see in Chillingworth’s face?

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">What does Hester threaten Chillingworth with? How does he respond?

//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Chapter Fifteen: Hester and Pearl // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">What did Pearl make out of eelgrass?

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Why does Pearl think Hester wears the A?

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Why does Hester tell her she wears it? How does Pearl respond to this?

//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Chapter Sixteen: A Forest Walk // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Why does Hester want to meet with Dimmesdale?

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">How does she get to see him?

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">What does Pearl say about the sunshine?

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">How does Dimmesdale look?

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Respond to the following quote from the book: "No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true."
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Activities for Part Two **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">– Choose one activity to complete

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">After so many years, Hester has difficulty finding the courage to speak to Chillingworth. Put yourself in Hester’s place, and write a letter to Chillingworth. Before you begin, identify three or four specific statements you want to make. Then build the letter around them. Remember, you and Chillingworth share a secret, but you have not communicated with the man in seven long years. Be sure to use the time period language. //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Chapter Seventeen: The Pastor and his Parishioners // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">What did Dimmesdale ask Hester?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Questions Part Three - **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">answer on a separate sheet of paper.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">How does he compare their conditions?

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">How did nature seem to sympathize with their moods?

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">What does Dimmesdale fear?

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">What does Hester suggest he do?

//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Chapter Eighteen: A Flood of Sunshine // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">What did Dimmesdale do? What effect did the decision have?

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">What did Hester do with the scarlet letter? How did she feel?

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">How does nature react?

//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Chapter Nineteen: The Child at the Brookside // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Why was Dimmesdale afraid of Pearl?

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">How does Dimmesdale view Pearl and the brook?

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">What did Hester do with the scarlet letter? What else did she have to do before Pearl would go to her?

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">After Pearl kissed Hester what else did she do?

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">What did Pearl do when Dimmesdale kissed her?

//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Chapter Twenty: The Minister in a Maze // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">What had Dimmesdale thought had really happened in the forest?

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">What were the physical effects on Dimmesdale after the meeting with Hester?

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">When Dimmesdale heard a knock on his door, what did he expect to see?

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">What was Dimmesdale busy with the entire night?

//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Chapter Twenty-One: The New England Holiday // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">What does Peal think of Dimmesdale’s conduct towards her?

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">What does the commander tell Hester? Who told him this?

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">How did Chillingworth look upon her?

//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Chapter Twenty-Two: The Procession // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">What did the townspeople think when they saw Dimmesdale?

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">What kind of sermon did Dimmesdale give?

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">What message did the seaman tell Pearl to give to Hester?

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">What was Hester’s reaction?

//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Chapter Twenty-Three: The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">What did Dimmesdale do as the people were moving from church?

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">What was the effect of the scene upon the crowd?

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">What did Dimmesdale say to Hester?

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">What did he do with his minstrel gown?

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">What was the effect on Chillingworth?

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">What did Pearl do?

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">How did Dimmesdale feel God had shown his mercy on him?

//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Chapter Twenty-Four: Conclusion // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Afterward, what opinions were expressed regarding the scarlet letter above the minister’s heart?

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">What became of Chillingworth?

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Where did Hester and Pearl go?

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">What was the attitude of people towards her?

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">What became of Pearl?

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Is Arthur Dimmesdale a remarkably strong character to have carried his burden of guilt for so many years? Or was he weak for not having the courage to confess? Given what we know about him, would he have been able to run away with Hester and Pearl and start a new life? Cite evidence from the text to support your opinions.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Activities for Part Three - **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Choose one activity to complete

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Although the “A” is the most prominent symbol in The Scarlet Letter Hawthorne uses many other symbols throughout the novel. Research the following symbols and explain its meaning within the context of the story: <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">The color black, the forest, the brook, the roses, Indians, Hester’s clothing, Pearl’s clothing, Pearl’s name the meteor, golden embroidery on the “A”

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Explore parallel situations between the Reverend Dimmesdale and contemporary political or religious leaders you may have read about in the news. Discuss this in well thought out paragraphs.