When Dimmesdale gives his Electon Serman he walks to the scaffold with Hester and Pearl. He tells the community he is a sinner aslo. He then rips off his shirt revealing a scarlet letter on his skin. He falls to his knees and dies. Hester and Pearl leave town.
To pretend it never happened would be denying apart of herself. When she is released form prison, Hester still refuses to leave Boston. Although, the narrator never explains why, it is inferred that her life has been too deeply marked by things for her to leave. She also feels bound to Pearl’s father, Arthur Dimmesdale. This shows that she is brave enough to not run away from her problems in Boston and face them head on, for Pearl.
Ponyboy remembers Bob saying this not even a week before. Both boys are victims of the violence between the Socs and the Greasers, and die before the story is over. They both have violent tendencies, look for fights, and end up losing their lives because of it; more important, both draw ideological lines in the sand. The Outsiders ends with its own opening sentence, as Ponyboy begins to write his assignment for English class, and it becomes clear that the story the reader has just finished is the assignment itself. It is inspired by Johnny's letter to Ponyboy, in which he explains what he meant by his last words: "Stay gold."
She married Roger out of social and economic necessity. When she commits adultrey, she conceals his identity from Dimmesdale. Roger chillingworth visits hester while she is in prison and they both discuss to eachother that their marriage never worked out. Hester says, " I have greatly wronged thee!",(72). Hester is the least sinful because she only committed adultrey and that she never told Arthur chillingworth was her husband.
Watching every day as the people say things to Hester like “At the very least they should put a hot iron on Hester’s head” and “[Hester] ought to die”(88) drives Dimmesdale mad. Dimmesdale begins to “trust no man as his friend. [Dimmesdale was] a man sore sick”(240). They see that at “the health of Mr. Dimmesdale had evidently begun to fail”(212), everyone in the town begins to notice. His physical deterioration is eventually so bad that “the
Scarlet Letter Essay Who would you define as the worst sinner in The Scarlet Letter? The Scarlet Letter is about a young woman named Hester Prynne who came over from Europe with her husband who was supposed to follow after her. Hester Prynne had been waiting for her husband to come over but it had become prolonged. So Hester Prynne ended up committing adultery with the minister of New England named Arthur Dimmesdale. This story is about committing a sin against the Puritan culture that is all about holiness and living right before God.
"The Moonlit Road" Summary This horror story was told by three different narrators: Joel Hetman, Jr., Casper Gattan, and the late Julia Hetman with help from Medium Bayrolles. While Joel Hetman, Jr., was away at college, his father sent him a telegram, urging him to come home right away. When he returned, he discovered that his mother was brutally killed through strangulation. One day, Joel and his father were outside; Joel's father was certain that he saw someone out there, but Joel, Jr., couldn't see anything. A moment later, Joel's father disappeared; he was never heard from again.
Valjean, as a worn-out convict, demonstrates change after he meets the bishop. For instance, when Valjean steals the silver candlesticks from the bishop, the police catch him and bring him back to the bishop. Immediately, the bishop pretends that Valjean didn’t steal from him and, instead, gives the candlesticks as a gift. “Forget not, never forget that you have promised me to use this silver to become an honest man” (26). When the bishop gives Valjean the candlesticks, he is literally passing on light as he tells Valjean he must commit to becoming an honest man.
Although John Proctor receives injustice in the most severe way, justice was still served correctly and accordingly in the situation of the Salem Witchcraft trials. A reason why this is true is because Elizabeth Proctor lied under oath in court and was placed in prison. She gets arrested at her household saying goodbye to John, “John—I think I must go with them. Mary, there is bread enough for the morning…” (1285) still concerned about the family. She lies about John and Abigail having an affair, trying to save John but actually gets him killed later
He is almost completely shunned from the town because he is trying to help a black man accused of rape. Mayella had told Tom, “I said come here, nigger, and bust up this chiffarobe for me, I gotta nickel for you.” (p.241) She had tricked him to coming over to her. Then that’s about the time when she accuses him of rape. He had felt sorry for her, which is why he was falsely accused in the first place. Courthouse segregation was one of the biggest bits of racism I found in this book.