To be honest, I don't even know where to start. At the beginning of the book I would imagine myself burning The Scarlet Letter(although I wouldn't) because it was just completely awful and boring. In my opinion it really matched the romanticism stuff because this showed a lot of drama and it was very cheesy. The Puritans themselves were were of much romanticism in my opinion because they really emphasized all their thoughts and beliefs to put in reason. I actually think that this book has made me learn a very good lesson,and that lesson would be that you should never make anybody pay for the mistakes of others. For example, Pearl has to put up with the nasty eyes and dirty talking of the older women because her mother made the mistake of committing adultery. Pearl had absolutely no fault in what her mother did but yet, she still had so much hate for it. Honestly now that I am typing this, I've realized this is a very sick book. I know I am saying this from a very different perspective that Puritans would because they would think that the things they did were very "holy" or right. This book in which there was adultery, a creepy little girl, old naggy women, two dumb adulterers who couldn't keep it in their pants and an annoying scarlet letter "A", I was actually surprised at how good Hawthorne kept me fished into the book because of the wonder of what would happen next. The Scarlet Letter kept me wondering what would happen next because at one moment you would have hope and in the next you would have devastation. Throughout the book I would literally roll my eyes at how many opportunities the characters had of escaping the Puritans but like I said, they were such dumb people. This book had a fair ending in my opinion because everybody was just so annoying all throughout and well I guess someone(Pearl) seemed to end alright. Other than that it was sort of depressing to see those who would fall to their fate because they could've done better. Pearl could’ve not made such a prideful girl and taken that letter “A” off of her, Dimmesdale could’ve manned up and Chillingworth should’ve just chilled. I mean seriously, that man was way too older for Pearl and he really ditched her for a long time, he should’ve let her go and understood much better. They were all cowards. One of my favorite characters I would say would be Pearl because she was the only wise person in this book even though she would seem weird and haunting. Even though you really couldn't get what might have been going through her head she seemed to know what was up. Overall, I would say that this book gets six happy faces out of ten because it was very engaging but also because it was too cheesy and just very awkward to me. I would recommend this only to people who were fans of romanticism but I would not persuade someone who is walking down the street listening to music and sagging their pants below their knees.
[Maria Perez]
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[Maria Perez]
Final Blog
Link to the picture is here: http://career-city.com/scarlet-letter-cover/scarlet-letter-cover-2