The Scarlet Letter Chapters IV-VI Reading Tags
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Analyze the tags for Chapters IV - VI in this blog. Use the following format in your analysis of each tag:
1. Tag and page number where the tag can be found
A. Author/Facts (does not have to be in complete sentences)
oFacts from the novel according to the tag
oWho?, What?, When?, Where?
oDefine new words
oParaphrase/Summary
B. Reader/Response (SHOULD BE IN COMPLETE SENTENCES)
oHow? Why?
oApplication
oWhat do you think about the situation surrounding the tag?
oRespond to the quote.
oPredictions/Questions
DON'T FORGET TO BRING A HARD COPY TO CLASS ON THE DAY THE TAGS ARE DUE IN ORDER TO GET YOUR POINTS!
Analyze the tags for Chapters IV - VI in this blog. Use the following format in your analysis of each tag:
1. Tag and page number where the tag can be found
A. Author/Facts (does not have to be in complete sentences)
oFacts from the novel according to the tag
oWho?, What?, When?, Where?
oDefine new words
oParaphrase/Summary
B. Reader/Response (SHOULD BE IN COMPLETE SENTENCES)
oHow? Why?
oApplication
oWhat do you think about the situation surrounding the tag?
oRespond to the quote.
oPredictions/Questions
DON'T FORGET TO BRING A HARD COPY TO CLASS ON THE DAY THE TAGS ARE DUE IN ORDER TO GET YOUR POINTS!
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3. "I have greatly wronged thee"(62)
A. Author/Facts
-Hester is put into prison.
-The stranger stays at the prison awaiting questioning and he is called Roger Chillingworth.
-The stranger starts talking to Hester and it is soon revealed that it is her husband.
-He was old and she was young when they married and she did not love him.
-The quote refers to Hester apologizing for what she has done to him.
-He apologizes for making her marry him and wants to know who the adulterer is.
-She won't tell him.
B. Reader/Response
-It is surprising to me that they revealed who her husband is so early on in the book. I expected it to be indicated but not put out in the open. Obviously Hawthorne intends this fact to have some big purpose later in the book.
-I think that it's a shame that the old man is smart and nice but no one wanted to marry him. At the same time, he shouldn't have forced her to marry him.
-I'm not sure why Hester is protecting this other man so much. She must really love him
5. "The chain that bound her here..."(66)
A. Author/Facts
-Hester lived by herself in a little cottage.
-She had a lot of time to herself so she got very good at knitting.
-She knitted things for very important people but she never sewed anything to do with a bridal gown.
-She was basically banished because no one in the town wanted to talk to her.
-She had no friends and was insulted by many.
-The quote refers to her considering going back to England.
-She decides against this because she believes she should serve out her punishment in the colony.
-She also believes staying will make her a better person.
B. Reader/Response
-The decision to stay in the colonies is typical of what we've seen of her character so far. She has shown that she is a strong-willed woman and this decision is consistant with that.
-I think that it is interesting that the people still wanted to buy clothes from her but didn't even want to talk to her. This seems a little hypocritical to me.
-It's also a little wierd how they wouldn't let her sew any wedding dresses. It is pretty consistant with their beliefs though.
6. "A lovely and immortal flower out of the rank and luxuriance of a guilty passion"(73)
A. Author/Facts
-The quote is found in the first paragraph of the chapter. It means that a beautiful baby came out of a selfish desire that was against God's will.
-Pearl was called this because she cost her mother everything to have just like the bible story about the pearl.
-Pearl was a very beautiful baby and looked like an angel according to her mother.
-Pearl never had any friends but played by herself and had a great imagination.
-The mother always brought Pearl her when she went into town.
B. Reader/Response
-Of course Pearl has to be this intelligent baby who is amazing because that's what happens in stories like this.
-I think that it is almost cruel of the mom to take the child wherever Hester goes. That assures that she will always be associated with Hester's sin.
-It is interesting how well that even the other children have connected the mom's sin to the child.
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4. “I have greatly wronged thee” (62)
a. Author/Facts
• This chapter describes Hester’s trip to the doctor’s office, in which whom the doctor happens to be her long lost husband. When this fact is discovered by the reader, Hester makes the statement, “I have greatly wronged thee,” regarding her acts of adultery.
• Hester is respectable by acting strong when with her husband and apologizing to him. With him being so sarcastic about the child not being his, it must have been hard to do so.
• It is ironic that the man who asks what she has done at the scaffold, and who is her doctor treating both her and her baby is her husband. He is very sarcastic though about the fact that the kid he is checking out is not his.
• It is kind of freaky and stalkerish what Chillingworth says about finding out who had an affair with his wife. He says that, like Hester, the brand of adultery exists on him as well. It is also strange but not so unbelievable that he would make her promise to never tell anyone that “she had ever called him husband.”
b. Reader Response
Chillingworth reminds me of the scary old men you se in the library that just stare you down like you are doing something wrong. This is an interesting chapter because it introduces Hester’s husband, an important role in this story. It also reveals that Hester will still not give a name, not even to her husband who deserves it, and that Chillingworth is planning on finding him and probably won’t treating him the best. I was frustrated at his sarcasm, however, because it wasn’t enough for her to be discriminated against, he had to rub it in that the baby was not his child. Those Puritans are irrationally crazy.
5. “The chain that bound her here…” (66)
a. Author/Facts
• Hester is bound by a chain because, after committing this horrible sin, she is forever branded as an adulterer, and is chained to her sin. It can never be broken because the people of the town unforgiving and very scornful.
• Hester is also described as a seamstress, explaining the elaborate embroidery around the ‘A’. She is an elaborate seamstress whose work ‘has appeared on the governor.’ I am not sure, however, how much work she will find now that she is a criminal.
• Hester has to provide both food and clothing for her and Pearl, working in the small garden and sowing. Children of the town treat her home almost life it is haunted and talk about her, which is sad.
• The village will continue to harass Hester for the rest of her life; there is no escape from this punishment. But it does bring in to question just how hypocritical the townspeople are being, not forgiving a sin and claiming to be delivered sinners.
b. Reader Response
it is sad how Hester has no friends, no more jobs, and still has to feed and clothe a growing baby while worrying about her husband now being in town and looking for her fellow adulterer, along with the malicious behavior of the village and feelings that she is completely alone in her pain. The Puritans took sinning so seriously, that anyone seen with her might have the tainted nature of Hester rub off on them. It is also frustrating how the children of the village have begun to poke Hester with a stick as well as the adults. They say things about her only adding to her pain and exile. Would she even be able to get married?
6. “A lovely and immortal flower out of the rank and luxuriance of a guilty passion” (73)
a. Author/Facts
• Pearl is a freak of nature, and one of the most complex and understanding three year olds I have ever heard of. She is also one of the most complex characters in the book. She is beautiful, a lovely flower that was a product of her mother’s sin.
• Pearl haunts her mother constantly by showing all of her mother’s character traits and claiming she has no Heavenly Father and playing with the scarlet letter. Hester comes to believe that Pearl is a possessed demon child.
• Pearl and her mother are both alone in the village, except for the occasional group of children that Pearl throws rocks at. Therefore, Pearl makes up imaginary enemies and tortures them, the characters being plants and weeds.
• Known as a Pearl to her mother because of its great value, Hester bought her daughter at a great price. Never again having a life outside her home and scorn and malice thrown at her for the rest of her life. Because of her mother’s sin, Pearl is also an outcast, yet understands that.
b. Reader Response
This is a complex little child. I can see how Hester believes that she is possessed. She has so much to her for a three year old, throwing rocks at children and torturing Puritan enemies in the form of plants and weeds. After reading this chapter, I fell even sorrier for Hester. On top of everything else, she has a demon child that constantly harasses her, throwing her problems right back into her face and even having an enchantment with the embroidered ‘A.’ Just the way she moves around, the look in her eye, and her convulsions of rage make the child seem more supernatural than she really is.
Katherine Leigh Miller
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