The event: "Whenever that look appeared in her wild, bright, deeply-black eyes, it invested her with a strange remoteness and intangibility; it was as if she were hovering in the air and might vanish, like a glimmering light that comes we know not whence, and goes we know not whither." This event struck me, because it gives an image of a little elf-like girl, hovering in the air, preparing to vanish. I love descriptions such as these, because I love the concepts of magic and myth. I love this especially, because Hester's daughter could be in fact evil. Not necessarily evil, but cunning, mischievous, and intelligent. She is the age of three, and she is still given these descriptions. (Pg. 95)
The quote: "By no means! But that first object of which Pearl seemed to become aware was-shall we say it?-the scarlet letter on Hester's bosom!" This quote struck me, because the brand mark of which your life had been placed so low, was the first object that your daughter saw. To have that letter on your bosom, and to have your child grow up with it knowing your faults. The shame of that scarlet letter would be passed down from generation, to generation. On Hester's grave would be the letter "A." On her descendant's tombstones would be, "Descendant of Hester Prynne, the adulteress" (Pg. 99)
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