Ok wow that was a lot, like a lot a lot, but hey at least we’re finally getting somewhere, so like let's just get righttt into it, this is going to be a long one and sorry for some spelling errors…
We start off these chapters with Hester finally getting into her marriage with Chillingworth, love a good trauma dump. She opens up about how he manipulated her to be “happy” with him and how she finally realizes the hatred that has been burning inside her, saying “He has done worse wrong than I did him!”, which I completely agree with, like who can blame her for what she did after he ABANDONED her. After Chillingsworth finally disappears into the night, we are touched with some beautiful imagery of Pearl being the fairy she is prancing around the woods. However, as cute as she seems, Pearl during her little adventures, makes her own A and places it on her chest imitating her mother. Pearl’s obsession with this A is getting a little strange to say the least, do we have another Chillingsworth on our hands. After Hester spots Pearl’s creation, she asks Pearl what she believes this A to be. Pearl responds saying “It is for the same reason that the minister keeps his hand over his heart!” While this is true, Pearl does not know the true reasons behind it, so she continues to pester Hester (lol) asking what it means again and again. (the obsession is really freaking me out idk about yall). This chapter ends when her mother has finally had enough and snaps at Pearl telling her to please shut up. (real)
We continue their little forest adventure in the next chapter and Pearl starts to get more and more frustrating, maybe that’s just me. She tells her mother that sunlight is afraid of her because of the A she bears. (like she is so rude) Hester finally decides to try and tell Pearl what the A truly means, but Pearl beats her to it, sharing the story of the “Black Man.” Pearl had overheard this story told by a woman in the village. It shares a hooded man who haunts the forest and gives Hester the red A on her chest. Hester plays along saying that she did once meet this myth. Continuing this hike??, Pearl, like always, is prancing in nature, admiring the imagery and personifying the objects around her like the brooke, she is beginning to reallllyyy creep me out. She stops in place though as she spots a man approaching, she believes it to be the “Black Man”, but it turns out to be the minister. Hester tells Pearl to leave and Pearl being the strange child she is just prances off singing into the forest… After she leaves, Hester reveals herself to Dimmesdale.
After startling Dimmesdale by appearing out of the darkness, his hand reaches for her and begins to share the “themes that were brooding deepest in their hearts” which sounds super romantic….. For sure… Through their chatting, they continue to lock eyes with each other and stare into each other's souls. Hester gets Dimmesmdale to open up about his situation.. revealing to her the contrasting voices in his head about the hypocritical life he seems to be living and the pain it's causing him inside. After yet another trauma dump (there seems to be lots of secrets being shared in these chapters), Hester decides to tell the minister the biggest secret she has been hiding from everyone, she reveals the identity of her husband as ROGER CHILLINGWORTH (i know we already knew that but to the poor minister this was some news for sure) He sank into the floor utterly appalled and kindaa freaking out, but then he came to terms and forgives Hester for not telling him sooner. During this conversation the nature once again was reflecting their emotions of the sad couple. (kinda reminds me of Jane….) This conversation gets even crazier when Hester suggests that Dimmesdale should run away and change his identities to begin a new true life. (wow again Jane is that you???) This chapter ends abruptly with some crazy last statement that Hester would actually join him. Wow. OK then!
Continuing on, this last statement turns Dimmesdale’s stressed emotions to ones of pure joy as he begins to discover what this feeling of a free life would give to him. “Do I feel joy again? … Methought the germ of it was dead in me!” (that's depressing, but hey at least he’s healing) This scene was actually quite adorable because it truly confirmed the love that Dimmesdale and Hester shared before everything came crumbling down, this little future they began to craft started to seem like a reality especially when Hester took the A off her breast and through it into the brooke!!!! WOWWWWWW!!! FINALLLLYY!!! Ok was anyone else wondering where little freaky Pearl went?? I was!!! We learn that she was just being her elfish self and running around the woods like a furry:)
Ok final chapter, this was a long one, I apologize. As pearl finally returns, she seems very off, not jumping over the brooke and coming to join her mother. Instead, she stands over her reflection staring at them like the twins from the shining. Eeeekk. We find out that she isn’t listening to her mother because Hester took the A off. I told you this obsession is really starting to get bad. Once Hester puts the A back on her chest, Pearl becomes her peppy self once again and returns to her mother, but still is a little cold to Dimmesdale….mhhhhh well i don't really know what this means (I DO KNOW), but I guess we will have to keep reading:) BYE!!!!!!
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