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Scarlet Letter - Coggle Diagram

- - - - After the meeting had concluded Hester was allowed to take her child home with her
  - - - as he kept trying to figure out what was wrong with him he became fascinated
  - - - before she had seen her husband he saw her.
- - - - "two years, or less, that the woman has been a dweller here in Boston, no tidings have come of this learned gentleman"
        
        Less than 2 years after moving to the U.S she had a baby with another man.
    - - Pearl is Hesters child who is referred to as a devil child by the townspeople.
        
        "poor little Pearl was a demon
        offspring" (Scarlet Letter)
        
        Everyone believed that Pearl was a demon child because she was birthed because of a sin.
    - - Chillingsworth was Hester's husband which had been captured by Indians and had gone missing for 6-7 years.
        
        "I have met with grievous mishaps by sea and land, and have
        been long held in bonds among the heathen-folk to the southward" (Scarlet Letter)
        
        While Chillingsworth was captured by the Indians he had no clue that his wife had a baby with another man.
    - - Dimmesdale is the man that Hester committed adultery with. He is also the Reverend.
        
        "that the Reverend Master Dimmesdale" (Scarlet Letter)
        
        It is kind of ironic that the Reverend committed adultery.
- - - - This shows that no one in the town had respect for her after what she had done. They all showed shame towards her. This made Hester's life very tough.
- - - - The text shows that it was set at a later period in new England suggesting that it was set during the 1600's