Liyannah Almario Class 4
Scarlet Letter
Nathan Hawthorne
Quote & page number Responses
“...It would be greatly for the public behoof,
if we women, being mature of age and
church members in good repute, should
have handling of such malefactresses as this
Hester Prynne. What think ye, gossips? If the
hussy stood up for judgement before us five,
that are now here in knot together, would
she come off with such a sentence…”
Pg.59
These girls have been talking bad about
Hester Prynne with these gossips and it
reminds me of some girls at school who likes
to hear rumors or spread rumors in a gossip.
A lot of them tend to do that here which
creates a lot of drama
“Had a roar of laughter burst from the
multitude-- each man, each woman, each
little, shrill voiced child, contributing their
individual parts-- Hester Prynne might have
repaid them all with a bitter and disdainful
smile”
Pg. 64
If I were in Hester Prynne’s shoes, with all
that humiliation and laughter everyone is
giving me, I would have done the same thing,
that contempted smile, keeping you cooled
down while everyone is shaming you...the
best thing and the most similar thing I would
do is such smile
“Reminisces...intermingled with
recollections of whatever was gravest in her
subsequent life….Possible it was an
instinctive device of her spirit to relieve
itself, by exhibition of these phantasmagoric
forms, from the cruel weight and hardness
of the reality
Pg.65
Perhaps her thoughts is trying to relieve
itself and readying her, or in other words,
replaying itself in the olden days so that
reality won’t seem as harsh since this isn’t
the only weight that have put her down
before
“...the stranger bent his eyes on Hester
Prynne. It was carelessly, at first….Very
soon, writhing horror twisted itself across
his features….His face darkened with some
powerful emotion...he so instantly controlled
by an effort of his will..”
Pg. 67
This person seems to be somehow she knows
or have some kind of important relationship
with in the past. The man seems to recognize
her and is angered somehow as she stands
there in the scaffold. It might be the aged
man she has married in England
“She could no longer borrow from the future
to help her through the present grief”
Pg. 82
This quote speaks to me in a way that it says
she can’t foresee the future anymore and
give herself hope to this day she is now
forced to live by
Quote & page number Responses
“God, as a direct consequence of the sin
which man thus punished, had given her a
lovely child, whose place was on the same
dishonored bosom…”
Pg. 92
Although she was punished by a child which
will forever remind her of her sin, the child
has grew into a intelligent and sweet child
that she will both cherish and look upon to
for her sins..This seems like a mother who
truly loves her ch...
