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"A" is for... -- Anonymous, Wednesday, November 03, 08:50:01am [1]
What emblem does Hester have to wear? Why was she sentenced to wear it? -- Anonymous, Tuesday, November 09, 03:42:27am [1]
27. How does Pearl deal with the Puritan children who make fun of her and her mother? -- Anonymous, Wednesday, November 10, 05:47:55pm [1]
28. Does Governor Bellinghams's house seem to be in keeping with the Puritan simplicity? -- Anonymous, Wednesday, November 10, 05:53:09pm [1]
26. Why does Hester go to see Governor Bellingham? -- Anonymous, Wednesday, November 10, 06:34:36pm [1]
19. Describe Hester's feelings towards Pearl. What behavior of Pearl's concerns Hester and why? -- Anonymous, Wednesday, November 10, 07:40:16pm [1]
20. How is the Puritan society's treatment of Pearl especially unfair? -- Anonymous, Wednesday, November 10, 07:49:12pm [1]
33. How does Hester react to the governor's plan to take her daughter away from her? -- Anonymous, Monday, November 15, 02:27:12pm [1]
34.Who speaks on Hester's behalf? What arguments does he make in supporting of her keeping Pearl? -- Anonymous, Monday, November 15, 02:41:27pm [1]
21. What is the first object of which Pearl becomes aware? -- Anonymous, Tuesday, November 16, 12:39:14pm [1]
22. What do some of the townspeople say regarding Pearl's paternity? -- Anonymous, Tuesday, November 16, 12:47:09pm [1]
53. What does Hester tell Roger Chillingworth when they meet on the peninsula? -- Anonymous, Sunday, November 28, 08:29:47pm [1]
55. What reason does Hester give for not wanting to remove the scarlet letter? -- Anonymous, Sunday, November 28, 08:43:40pm [1]
56. What shocking changes does Hester realize have taken place in Chillingworth? How does she feel about these changes? -- Anonymous, Sunday, November 28, 08:45:30pm [1]
57. Hester asks Pearl if she knows what the scarlet letter means. What is Pearl’s answer? How is it disturbingly perceptive? How does Hester react to Pearl’s response? -- Anonymous, Sunday, November 28, 08:51:33pm [1]
58. What does Hester finally tell Pearl is her reason for wearing the letter? -- Anonymous, Sunday, November 28, 08:52:54pm [1]
59. Why do Hester and Pearl go to the forest? -- Anonymous, Sunday, November 28, 09:03:40pm [1]
60. To what does Hawthorne compare the forest walk? -- Anonymous, Sunday, November 28, 09:08:54pm [1]
62. How does Reverend Dimmesdale look when Hester sees him approaching? -- Anonymous, Sunday, November 28, 09:14:03pm [1]
64. In the forest, Reverend Dimmesdale finds out Roger Chillingworth’s true identity and desire for revenge. How does he react to this news? How does Hester become Dimmesdale’s strength, and what does Hester suggest he do? -- Anonymous, Sunday, November 28, 09:18:24pm [1]
54. What conclusion does Hester reach about her promise to Chillingworth? -- Anonymous, Sunday, November 28, 09:55:54pm [1]
65. What does Dimmesdale say is Chillingworth's sin? -- Anonymous, Monday, November 29, 01:22:11pm [1]
5. How do the Puritan women react to Hester during her public humiliation? Why do they react this way? -- Anonymous, Monday, November 29, 01:25:11pm [1]
70. What is the cause of estrangment between Hester and Pearl? What does Hestor do to rectify the situation? -- Anonymous, Wednesday, December 01, 03:40:11pm [1]
71. Mr. Dimmesdale kisses Pearl. What does she do in response? Why? -- Anonymous, Wednesday, December 01, 03:45:19pm [1]
75. What is Dimmesdale's attitude when he sees Chillingworth? -- Anonymous, Wednesday, December 01, 06:57:46pm [1]
Symbols: The Scaffold -- Anonymous, Thursday, December 02, 04:47:26pm [1]
Symbol Analysis of the ROSEBUSH -- Anonymous, Thursday, December 02, 06:07:50pm [1]
Symbol of Iron -- Anonymous, Thursday, December 02, 06:36:18pm [1]
Character Analysis: Mistress Hibbins -- Anonymous, Friday, December 03, 08:51:15am [1]
Character Analysis of Pearl -- Anonymous, Sunday, December 05, 06:30:12pm [1]
Character Analysis of Hester Prynne -- Anonymous, Sunday, December 05, 07:00:17pm [1]
73. How does Dimmsdale's attitude change after he decides to leave Boston with Hester? What disturbing this does the minister fell like doing, and what do these wicked impulses make him fear? Of what "sin" is he now guilty? -- Anonymous, Sunday, December 05, 08:19:57pm [1]
Symbol Analysis: Sunshine & Light -- Anonymous, Monday, December 06, 04:38:01am [1]
70. What is the cause of estrangement between Pearl and Hester? what does Hester do to rectify the situation? -- Anonymous, Monday, December 06, 04:41:05am [1]
The symbol of the forest -- Anonymous, Thursday, December 02, 05:18:52pm [1]
61. What stories has Pearl heard about the Black Man? To whom is she referring? -- Anonymous, Sunday, November 28, 09:11:28pm [1]
25. How does Pearl’s appearance shock people on the day she and her mother go to visit the governor? -- Anonymous, Wednesday, November 10, 06:31:05pm [1]

Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter student guide -- Anonymous, Wednesday, November 03, 08:49:07am [36]

11. What apology does Chillingworth make? -- Anonymous, Monday, November 08, 03:43:48pm [1]
- ADD-ON to "11. What does Chillingworth ask Hester to promise? Why?" -- Anonymous, Monday, November 08, 10:56:51pm [1]
12. What does Chillingworth ask Hester to promise? Why? -- Anonymous, Monday, November 08, 03:47:22pm [1]
- ADD-ON to "12. What does Chillingworth ask Hester to promise? Why?" -- Anonymous, Monday, November 08, 10:52:21pm [1]
8. Who does Hester recognize in the crowd during her public humiliation? What is her relationship to him? Where has he been until now? -- Anonymous, Monday, November 08, 11:03:27pm [1]
9. Who does the jailer summon to help little Pearl? Why does the jailer send for him, and how does Hester react to his presence? -- Anonymous, Monday, November 08, 11:11:56pm [1]
4. What emblem does Hester have to wear? Why was she sentenced to wear it? -- Anonymous, Tuesday, November 09, 12:45:51pm [1]
10. Why is Hester afraid to drink what Chillingworth gives her? -- Anonymous, Tuesday, November 09, 12:47:59pm [1]
3. What does the narrator say the rosebush symbolizes? -- Anonymous, Tuesday, November 09, 12:49:32pm [1]
6. What information does Hester refuse to tell the officials and Reverend Dimmesdale? -- Anonymous, Tuesday, November 09, 12:52:07pm [1]
15. How do people view Hester immediately after her release from prison? how is she treated in town? -- Anonymous, Wednesday, November 10, 05:56:47pm [1]
16. Where does hester live after she is released from prison -- Anonymous, Wednesday, November 10, 06:00:38pm [1]
14. Why does not Hester run away to a different settlement when she is released from prison? -- Anonymous, Thursday, November 11, 07:25:51am [1]
18. How does Hester dress? How does she dress Pearl? -- Anonymous, Thursday, November 11, 07:27:32am [1]
17. How does Hester support herself and Pearl? -- Anonymous, Thursday, November 11, 07:29:07am [1]
27. How does Pearl deal with the Puritan children who make fun of her and her mother? -- Anonymous, Thursday, November 11, 07:45:25am [1]
43. How has Chillingworth's original wish to see justice changed? -- Anonymous, Wednesday, November 17, 03:45:16pm [1]
44. How is Dimmesdale now at the mercy of Chillingworth? -- Anonymous, Wednesday, November 17, 03:51:04pm [1]
49. What “sign” does the meteor make in the sky? What are the various interpretations of it? -- Anonymous, Friday, November 19, 07:04:15am [1]
50. Where had Mr. Wilson, Pearl, and Roger Chillingworth been that night that they would all be walking by the scaffolding at midnight? -- Anonymous, Friday, November 19, 07:06:18am [1]
51. How has public opinion of Hester changed since she was publicly humiliated for her sin? -- Anonymous, Friday, November 19, 07:07:21am [1]
52. Why is Hester able to "think for herself" more than other women in the town? -- Anonymous, Friday, November 19, 07:09:13am [1]
37. How does Roger Chillingworth become Dimmesdale’s medical advisor? -- Anonymous, Friday, November 19, 07:10:02am [1]
38. Who is the leech? Why is he called that in the title of the chapter? -- Anonymous, Friday, November 19, 07:10:30am [1]
41. Summarize the conversation between Chillingworth and Dimmesdale about “secret sins.” Why does Mr. Dimmesdale rush from the room to end the conversation he has with Roger Chillingworth? -- Anonymous, Friday, November 19, 07:11:11am [1]
42. What does the narrator want the reader to think Chillingworth sees when he looks under the sleeping Dimmesdale’s shirt? -- Anonymous, Friday, November 19, 07:11:45am [1]
47. Where does Reverend Dimmesdale go at midnight? Why? -- Anonymous, Friday, November 19, 07:12:18am [1]
48. What does Pearl ask Mr. Dimmesdale while they are on the scaffold? -- Anonymous, Friday, November 19, 07:12:49am [1]
39. What do some of the townspeople believe about Chillingworth? -- Anonymous, Friday, November 19, 07:13:20am [1]
40. Rather than a physical ailment, what does Chillingworth decide is the source of Dimmesdale’s problems? -- Anonymous, Friday, November 19, 07:13:53am [1]
62. How does Reverend Dimmesdale look when Hester sees him approaching? -- Anonymous, Sunday, November 28, 12:38:45pm [1]
63. What does Dimmesdale say about penance and penitence? What does he mean? -- Anonymous, Sunday, November 28, 12:48:09pm [1]
Character Analysis - Governor Bellingham -- Anonymous, Thursday, December 02, 11:17:14am [1]
87. Hawthorne specifically states the moral of the story. What is it? -- Anonymous, Monday, December 06, 08:00:24am [1]
86. What purpose does the final chapter serve? -- Anonymous, Monday, December 06, 08:02:43am [1]
69. What is there about Pearl that has caused Dimmesdale “many an alarm”? -- Anonymous, Monday, December 06, 08:07:46am [1]
68. Why is it important to Hester that Pearl have a father? -- Anonymous, Monday, December 06, 08:08:24am [1]
90. Who, in Hawthorne’s view, is guilty of the worst sin? Why? -- Anonymous, Monday, December 06, 08:09:47am [1]
88. What does Hawthorne say about hatred and love? -- Anonymous, Monday, December 06, 08:11:58am [1]
Character Analysis: The Narrator -- Anonymous, Monday, December 06, 08:14:49am [1]
66. Once the decision is made, how does Dimmesdale feel? How does Hester change when the decision is made? How does the forest itself change once the decision is made? -- Anonymous, Monday, December 06, 08:46:03am [1]
67. Why does the scene between Hester and Dimmesdale seem different than any other in the novel so far? -- Anonymous, Monday, December 06, 08:46:58am [1]
Symbol Analysis: the meteor -- Anonymous, Thursday, December 09, 08:14:02am [1]
66. Once the decision is made, how does Dimmesdale feel? How does Hester change when the decision is made? How does the forest itself change once the decision is made? -- Anonymous, Thursday, December 09, 08:15:53am [1]
67. Why does the scene between Hester and Dimmesdale seem different than any other in the novel so far? -- Anonymous, Thursday, December 09, 08:16:48am [1]
81. What is Dimmesdale finally driven to do? -- Anonymous, Thursday, December 09, 08:18:29am [1]
83. In what way does Dimmesdale's action defeat Chillingworth? -- Anonymous, Thursday, December 09, 08:19:21am [1]
89. What happens to Hester, Pearl, and Roger Chillingworth? -- Anonymous, Thursday, December 09, 08:21:00am [1]
79. What does Mistress Hibbins say about Dimmesdale? -- Anonymous, Thursday, December 09, 08:22:51am [1]
80. What is ironic about the scene in the square as Dimmesdale gives the Election Day speech? -- Anonymous, Thursday, December 09, 08:25:08am [1]
84. What do the people see when Reverend Dimmesdale takes off his ministerial band? -- Anonymous, Thursday, December 09, 03:10:57pm [1]
85. How are Pearl's actions towards Dimmesdale when he dies especially significant? -- Anonymous, Thursday, December 09, 03:12:16pm [1]
82. Describe Dimmesdale's dying words and actions. -- Anonymous, Thursday, December 09, 03:14:03pm [1]
Character Analysis: Reverend Wilson -- Anonymous, Friday, December 10, 10:25:26am [1]