Lavender's AP Lit Class Blog

Lavender's AP Lit Class Blog

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Pearl (beginning to end)

I was thinking that I would like to write my essay on Pearl. Everyone thinks that she is the devil’s child or a witch child because she is the baby of Hester and Dimmsdale who had sinned and along with that sin came Pearl. Is she really though the example of a new beginning and new way of life. I want to write about how Pearl could be the new Ann Hutchinson, changing how things for women are. Also how through out the book Pearl changes. She goes from being a wild child, running around all the time and in the end she gets married and rich, she ends up with the happy ending. One other thing was how Pearl is always relating to the rose. She had said once that she was picked from the rose bushes, and that is where she had come from. pg. 327 "Then, she might have come down to us in history, hand in hand with Ann Hutchinson, as the foundress of a religious sect." pg.219 "...the child finally announced that she had not been made at all, but had been plucked by her mother off the bush of wild roses that grew by the prison door." pg. 523 Talks about where Pearl might have ended up and what her future was like or might have turned out to be like.

2 comments:

  1. Sierra,

    Pearl has the makings of a great topic--one about which you could carve out a thesis regarding how she is the lone hypocrite (who is one with Nature) or about how she fulfills the promise of feminism begun with Hester. Because I am pressed for time, please check out the comments I have made on some of your classmates' posts that also address Pearl.

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  2. I think you have a great idea, but i you dont tell us much about the detail on Pearl picking the rose from the bush. I feel that idea is off track from your main idea....

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