Pearl

At the beginning of chapter 14, page 147, the narrator tells the world hoe Pearl plays, "Forth peeped at her, out of th epool, with dark, glistening curlsaround her head, and an elf-smile in her eyes, the image of a little maid, whom Pearl, having no other playmate, invited to take her hand and run a race with her." I feel really bad for Pearl. She was born an unpure child, the offspring of one of the most outcast woman in the town and to a father unknown to the town. Pearl was an outcast from the start because of her mother and the fact she was a fatherless child, so she had no chance of making friends in the start. She had to be her own best friend, and I feel bad for her because no child should grow up with no friends. If you have a bad social life as a child, then the chances of you growing up to become alone are so much more likely. Also, many people think she is evil, with the looks of an angel. But I don't think that she is extremley evil, only to people who have wronged her. On page 155 the narrator says what Pearl has been doing while Hester was arguing with Roger, "the naughty child picked up her apron full of pebles, and, creeping from rock to rock after these small birds, displayed remarkable dixterity in pelting them. One little gray bird, Pearl was almost sure, had been hit by a pebble, and fluttered away with a broken wing. But then the elf-child sighed, and gave up her sport;because it grieved her to have done harm to a little being that was as wild as the sea-breeze, or as wild as Pearl herself." This proves that Pearl does have a good side to her.