Honors Writing 2

I picked the scarlet letter, my first impressions of this book were dull because i thought this book was going to just be about some letter. Instead i get a book that talks about adultery. This surprised and almost shocked me because i had never read a book that talked about someone committing the act of adultery. This obviously is not a conventional way to write a book. Most books will never go into talking about adultery, they will usually just avoid anything that will sound familiar to it.

The book talks about A young woman, named Hester Prynne who has been led from her town prison with her infant daughter in her arms and on the breast of her gown a rag of scarlet cloth which assumed the shape of a letter. It was the uppercase letter of an A. The Scarlet Letter A represents the act of adultery that she has committed and it is a symbol of her sin. a badge of shame for all to see and know the crime that she had committed. Most books would just talk about a young woman being led from the prison to maybe a boat or to her house but, it would never talk about the fact that she had committed the act of adultery and had a child because of it.

Hester meets a man named Dimmesdale who appears to be wasting away and suffers from mysterious heart trouble, seemingly caused by psychological distress. What hester doesn't know about him is that he has the letter A burned into his chest. Meaning that he has also committed the act of adultery. Most books won't talk about someone who has committed adultery let alone two people that have committed the foul sin.