The rest of this book

Damn anticlimatic and longer than it needed to be.

 After chapter 9 I said this man chillingsworth is super stoop. Someone must have used leeches to remove his sanity. Reminds me of an idealized doctor of Ms. Hill(s.o. to April, Paul, and Brenda).

In Chapter ten I realize what I later found to be the most important piece on information in the book:
 The black man referenced in the book is not

Your's TRU(tm of 2chainz/Pail)ly

but 

THE DEVIL

Handsome Devil

You can stop reading here.

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In the first read of Chapter 10 I thought dimm and chillingsworth had..uh..lit the dark plant and that was what caused them to see Pearl outside. However, that probably wouldn't have fit into the way the story was written and made much sense since as far as I know Puritans weren't lightin any L's. It made more sense that she was actually outside the window but I'm curious as to why she wasn't home.

The high preist..badum..

I think Dimmesdale is awfully horrible at playing down a situation. He makes it obviously visible that he is uncomfortable and leaving the room after/during a conversation is no helper in concealing your feelings on a matter. I would say it was dumb but he's letting some strange fat old man be his nurse so..no surprise. He seemed like this from the start..when Hester was in the town square or whatever.

Dimmesdale preaching in chapter 11 made me want to jump a few pages ahead. Sure something important cold have been said, or like in the book, he could have given an inspired sermon. He won't have much leverage on Pearl in terms of moral integrity and teaching values once she gets older. The reverend's sermon in Chapter 12 and ramblings about Pearl and Armageddon lead me to believe they did actually light that dark plant. Man o man.

Need some IcyHot for that chest pain dimmesdale?

I didn't like the rest of the book, or much of the beginning for that matter. It peaked in chapter 8, and the decline was rapid. Hester's character doesn't develop much and I don't get to read about her as much as I'd like. I disliked how the story started with her and what she was going through and then went on to Dimmesdale's probs and the desires of the probing chillingsworth to approve the assumption's he had. THere's more development of Pearl than there is of hester and the world she knows of that surrounds her. interestingly enough, that could have been intended since Pearl was stressed as a living symbol of the scarlet letter, so the title could be a reference to her. I still think the book is poorly organized in character concentration. It was a bit disjointed to me. I didn't care at all about Pearl as I didn't find her interesting.  I second Sam's comment /comparison of hester to the ol girl from twilight, A bit undeveloped and the only side we see is the one that revolves around this situation of being a baby mama(although we get a glimpse of her embroidery skills early on in the book).

One thing I thought about after finishing this book was that I would much rather had the story line shifted backwards to the points leading up to hester and rev d smanging it. Like I said before I thought this dragged on for quite some time. That is probably due to the wack ending of everything turning out wonderfully!!!11!1

My take away from the book: burn it.

This video describes(loosely) how I see the rev trying to get all preachy(on anything including moral integrity and values, like I stated above) with hester and pearl anytime in the future.

The womans stomach is rev d's wrong doing, and seinfield and larry david(white old man) represent hester and pearl respectively.

Enjoy