Identify the new characters introduced in chapters 5-9 indicating their importance to the protagonist, Hester Pyrnne:
Pearl
Mistress Hibbins
How is Hester Prynne regarded by the following people?
Clergymen
Young women
Strangers
Children
Pearl
What is your reaction to the punishment imposed on Hester Prynne?
Describe Hester’s home.
Explain Hester’s source of income.
Describe Hester’s character; how does she hold herself among the community?
Explain the significance of each of the following passages indicating what chapter and page number each is found on and how each appears to impact the protagonist’s problem:
1. “The chain that bound her here was of iron links, and galling to her inmost soul, but could never be broken”
2. “Such lost of faith is ever one of the saddest results of sin.”
3. “But the first object of which Pearl seemed to become aware was–shall we say it?–the scarlet letter on Hester’s bosom!”
4. “No, my little Pearl!” Said her mother. “Thous must gather thine own sunshine. I have none to give thee!”
5. “His features–how much uglier they seem,–how his dark complexion seemed to have grown duskier, and his figure more misshapen,–since the days when she had familiarly known him.”
6. “The minister, looked round, laid his hand on the child’s head, hesitated an instant, and then kissed her brow.”
