Now that the book is over and done with I feel that a great burden has been lifted. I'm not saying that the book was a bad book, its just that I'm just really happy that we don't have to read any more. Now the book was okay and I did not just want to throw it at the wall while reading it, so as long as throwing of books does not happen then the book was okay, both in that it was a good book and that it was not damaged. Form what I understand the book was partly to show how societies rules can sometimes go to far and end up ruining a persons's life, or in this case four people's lives. It can be seen how the book can relate to modern day and gives me something to think about for a few minutes, and then afterwards forget completely. But in all seriousness the message that a person can take from a book like The Scarlet Letter can be in some ways deep in meaning to the reader and it would be interesting to hear some of the messages that people have taken from this story. It is weird to think that the way that this book is written in, in it's own weird and specially odd way, was the common way of writing in the time period of Romanticism writing. Through out the majority of the book it has continually made me say that why can this be modernized and be in actual English that people can understand. But even how frustrating the language of the book was, without it I would say that the book just would not have the same feeling and the same sort of impact on the reader. Even so, that doesn't mean i have to like it even if I understand why. Now the people in the story, some are not the smartest for a lack of better terms. Hester Could have just moved away from the town and no long would have to deal with the problems. But then again there would be no story is she simply did that, and the fact that Hester felt that she should pay the price for her crime and for that I would have to say that I respect her choice to stay even if it meant that she would suffer. Chillingworth, I could understand that he is upset because of what happened to him, I really do but he really had to let it make him go crazy. Why not separate from Hester and start a new life away from Hester and Dimmesdale instead of siting around wasting his time torturing Dimesdale when Diemmesdale is obviously torturing himself and is going to die sooner or latter, he just needed to move on instead of going crazy and withering away and dieing. In the end the book was an okay read even when some of the story seemed kinda dumb and I would that I didn't hate the book, which is a good thing I guess.
-Lazaro Lopez
-Lazaro Lopez