Lavender's AP Lit Class Blog
Thursday, October 21, 2010
My thoughts on the Scarlet Letter
The Scarlet letter is a pretty good book, Hawthorn likes to write with a lot of description and details that are sometime unnecessary, in my opinion. When you just get to the meat of the story it is very entertaining and a fun read. I don't get why Hester is dressing like a poor person and not living in her high class clothes that she used too.. I think its nice that she helps the poor and still sews but its kinda funny how no one has asked her to make there wedding dress. Its cool how Hawthorn makes the same references through out the book, Sunlight, and the rose bush. I like the sunlight reference that the sunlight is happiness and pearl asks Hester if she has any sunlight for her. I thought its also funny how pearl is a rule breaker and doesn't listen. When the magistrates asked Pearl were she came from and she said she was plucked from the rose bush, that was the perfect answer for a little girl. I hope that at the end of the book everyone confesses and Hester tells Pearl the truth about the letter.
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Yeah, I agree. He writes in a complicated way, and he throws in many unnecessary details. Also, when he writes people talking to each other, it's really cheesy. Like yeah, they talked differently back then, but kids didn't talk that formally.
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ReplyDeleteFor someone who claims that so many of the books 'details' are unnecessary, you've certainly done a good job of showing how some of them (the sunshine, for example) help add to the "meat" of the novel!