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Hester's husband sent her to America, she had an affair and has had a child. She will not tell anyone who the father is. Hester is being punished for adultery. She is put in the town prison with her daughter, Pearl and the scarlet letter “A” on her chest. She also is being punished by public shame. - vs

Hester is forced to stand on a scaffold for 3 hours and the townspeople were all crowded around. They keep asking her to reveal who the father is but she refuses. She also sees her husband in the crowd, and he later disguises himself as Dr. Chillingworth. The governor tells Hester that they are considering taking Pearl from her in order to raise her properly. The townspeople think that Pearl is a devil child,and Hester insists that she could teach Pearl better than they could because she has learned from her mistakes of committing adultery. - gp

__15-17__ Pearl is starting to wonder what the A really means. Hester tries to make up a story but Pearl is too smart and knows that she is lying. She doesn't leave her mother alone until she tells her what the scarlet A stands for. - GC

Pearl and Hester are in the forest waiting for Dimmesdale and pearl wants to hear a story about a "black man." Then pearl repeats a story that she has heard and Hester agrees with it. VC

Hester and Dimmesdale meet and Dimmesdale tells Hester about his ongoing moral battle within himself. Dimmesdale believes that Chillingworth has committed the greatest crime because he is seeking revenge when the lovers had not done anything. CG

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 * – Dimmesdale goes up on the scaffold to try to reduce some of his guilt within him. He falls from pain and can’t get up. Pearl comes along with Hester and Dimmesdale asks them to join him on the scaffold. As they’re holding hands, a meteor fall and shines “A” in the sky. This light shows their identity to Chillingworth who now seems to understand everything.**


 * – This chapter shows how much Hester has changed since she has given birth to Pearl 7 years ago. She accepts public insults and poor living conditions offered to her. She has earned people’s respect for her charity and now interpret the “A” as “Able.” Inside, she is very judgmental. She doesn’t accept guilt that the “A” was intended to have on her. She also decides to tell Chillingworth to stop harassing Dimmesdale.**

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 * – Hester tells Chillingworth that he should stop harassing him. Dimmesdale admits that he has become a fiend who just wants revenge. Hester alludes that she will tell Dimmesdale of Chillingworth’s identity. Chillingworth doesn’t want to forgive Dimmesdale.**

18-20 Hester and Dimsdale decide to move to Europe. Pearl sees that Hester ripped the A off of her chest and would not go with Hester until she put the letter back on her chest. Peal joins Hester and Dimsdale and they plan to leave in 4 days. Dimsdale is still upset with himself as he is walking back from the forest.

9- Chillingworth chooses Dimmsdale as his spiritual advisor. Dimmsdale has been fasteing alot and the townspeople think hes very religious but it is because he has sinned. Dimmsdale sees chillingworth about his medical condition and Chillingworth and Dimmsdale mve in together so he has someone to take care of him.people in town have a different opinion on him moving in others say that chillingworth has conjuerer 10- chillingworth and dimmsdale are talking and he is trying to get secrets out of dimmsdale 11- chillingworth is sure that dimmsdale is hester's lover and chillingworth decides to torture dimmsdale emotionally.

21- Hester and Pearl plan to leave 22- Hester is surrounded by strangers who are obsessed with the scarlet "A" - CB