Assignment
Part I
A. What words choices (diction) does the narrator use to convey the sternness and seriousness of the Puritan people? Some word choices were a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery in sad colored garments.
B. What is growing on either side of the Prison door? What does each symbolize it was a rose bush with gems offering fragrance and beauty to prisoners showing hope, other side is a grass plot that's overgrown with burdock, pig weed apple pern, and bad vegetation showing how bad the prison was.
C. Why does the narrator allude to Ann Hutchinson the narrator alluded to her because she's the main character.
D. What does the final paragraph of the chapter foreshadow? It foreshadows the life of Ann and how she may live it.
E. What possible themes does this first chapter set in place for the reader?The possible themes are sadness,sorrow and pain.
Part II
A. Why does Hawthorne provide various examples of public punishment?
B. Why does Hawthorne allow us to hear the conversation of the women at the scaffold motivated by jealousy and hatred rather than Christian ideas.
C. What does Hester do when the town beadle puts his hand on her shoulder? What does this symbolize she rejects it.
D. What other ways does Hester show rebellion in this chapter makes the letter A beautiful, she looks at everyone in a non bash way
E. What does Hester think about while standing before the crowd, and what details do we find out from her thoughts she's married to a older deformed man
Part III
A. Who is the man on the outskirts of town that Hester notices? How does she know who it is? What does she do when she sees him?hester recognized roger chillingworth tells him to be quiet?
B. Where has this man been, according to what he tells the townsman bonds among heaven folk?
C. What does this man want to know after he finds out why Hester is on the scaffold her true identity?
D. What does Hester's pastor (Rev. Dimmesdale) say about why she should tell who the father is? (Two reasons) because she should not hide her identity and the paster should know who her husband is).
E. What does Hester say when called upon to confess who the father is tells to dimmensdale chilling worth is her husband?