Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Dropping!
We are dropping this novel. We have decided as a group this book doesn't seem to be as of much interest to many people. We will be coming up with a new list of books to read. As well as we are expecting some new member's to great books. Get back to you later!
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
12-14
At the beginning of chapter 12, Mr. Dimmesdale is standing in the very spot Hester Prynne got her first (what the book refers to as public ignominy). Mr. Dimmesdale kneels down with all the pain in his heart. And retched torture of keeping his secret he lets it out. All the pain… what the book actually says is this:
And thus, while standing on the scaffold, in this vain show of expiation, Mr. Dimmesdale was overcome with a great horror of mind, as if the universe were gazing at a scarlet token on his naked breast, right over his heart. On that spot, in very truth, there was, and there had long been, the gnawing and poisonous tooth of bodily pain. Without any effort of his will, or power to restrain himself, he shrieked aloud: an outcry that went pealing through the night, and was beaten back from one house to another, and reverberated from the hills in the background; as if a company of devils, detecting so much misery and terror in it, had made a plaything of the sound, and were bandying it to and fro.
Later in the night towards early morning, fellow towns people came over to where Mr. Dimmesdale was laying almost half frozen to death. Pearl and Hester were called by him over to his side. They sat there and held hands. Pearl asked for his presence in the next day to sit with them and hold hands again…Roger Chillingworth helping Reverend Dimmesdale. Mr. Dimmesdale agrees to go home with him and get better…to live for tomorrow to hold hands with Pearl again.
In Chapter 13 Hester Prynne explains to us her thoughts and guilty feelings of how life is treating her differently based on the birth of Pearl. Covering the way she feels about her scarlet letter. Telling us how it affects the way she is. How she isn’t portrayed as a womanly figure. The affect of everyone looking at her as a walking shame. How all she can think about is Pearl and whether her birth was for ill or good. She refers to her feelings for a moment like: A women never overcomes these problems by any exercise of thought.
After we go threw her thoughts on her own decisions in life it leads us straight to chapter 14.
Chapter 14 consists in the begging of Pearl having a grand old time running around playing alone in the water, or lake near town as it sounds. As Hester suits herself to a talking with Roger Chillingworth. Roger proclaims to her that Mr. Dimmesdale whispered to him something about how she was being spoken of in a town meeting, they are debating taking the badge off her “bosom”. Hester’s immediate response to that is she believes that there better judgment of wanting to take the scarlet letter off is not there choice but of her’s. And she chooses to keep her shame upon her body.
As she keeps speaking with Roger Chillingworth. She speaks of not talking to him not 7 years ago about keeping this secret. This uncovers the secret. That Roger Chillingworth is the father of Pearl. Roger Chillingworth keeps talking of how not any man has suffered as much as Mr. Dimmesdale has, as Hester is arguing with him on Chillingworth’s choices of helping Dimmesdale is the wrong decision. I have a feeling as I read this that Hester is thinking to herself she has suffered something of the same feeling.
Roger and her get into talking farther and farther. Speaking of how they avenge each other with how she has caused him pain. And he admits he has caused her the scarlet letter.
This whole conversation they have been having is striking me awkwardly...They sound like they still have feelings for each other. And as I finished the chapter I felt kind of sad. It sounded like they have major lust for each other but they ignore it they wont act upon it!!!. Just because of the towns people and what they will think of them. Why don't they move FAR FAR away...
Because of the time this was written?
Because it doesn't cross there mind?
I Don't know...I'm excited to keep reading!
And thus, while standing on the scaffold, in this vain show of expiation, Mr. Dimmesdale was overcome with a great horror of mind, as if the universe were gazing at a scarlet token on his naked breast, right over his heart. On that spot, in very truth, there was, and there had long been, the gnawing and poisonous tooth of bodily pain. Without any effort of his will, or power to restrain himself, he shrieked aloud: an outcry that went pealing through the night, and was beaten back from one house to another, and reverberated from the hills in the background; as if a company of devils, detecting so much misery and terror in it, had made a plaything of the sound, and were bandying it to and fro.
Later in the night towards early morning, fellow towns people came over to where Mr. Dimmesdale was laying almost half frozen to death. Pearl and Hester were called by him over to his side. They sat there and held hands. Pearl asked for his presence in the next day to sit with them and hold hands again…Roger Chillingworth helping Reverend Dimmesdale. Mr. Dimmesdale agrees to go home with him and get better…to live for tomorrow to hold hands with Pearl again.
In Chapter 13 Hester Prynne explains to us her thoughts and guilty feelings of how life is treating her differently based on the birth of Pearl. Covering the way she feels about her scarlet letter. Telling us how it affects the way she is. How she isn’t portrayed as a womanly figure. The affect of everyone looking at her as a walking shame. How all she can think about is Pearl and whether her birth was for ill or good. She refers to her feelings for a moment like: A women never overcomes these problems by any exercise of thought.
After we go threw her thoughts on her own decisions in life it leads us straight to chapter 14.
Chapter 14 consists in the begging of Pearl having a grand old time running around playing alone in the water, or lake near town as it sounds. As Hester suits herself to a talking with Roger Chillingworth. Roger proclaims to her that Mr. Dimmesdale whispered to him something about how she was being spoken of in a town meeting, they are debating taking the badge off her “bosom”. Hester’s immediate response to that is she believes that there better judgment of wanting to take the scarlet letter off is not there choice but of her’s. And she chooses to keep her shame upon her body.
As she keeps speaking with Roger Chillingworth. She speaks of not talking to him not 7 years ago about keeping this secret. This uncovers the secret. That Roger Chillingworth is the father of Pearl. Roger Chillingworth keeps talking of how not any man has suffered as much as Mr. Dimmesdale has, as Hester is arguing with him on Chillingworth’s choices of helping Dimmesdale is the wrong decision. I have a feeling as I read this that Hester is thinking to herself she has suffered something of the same feeling.
Roger and her get into talking farther and farther. Speaking of how they avenge each other with how she has caused him pain. And he admits he has caused her the scarlet letter.
This whole conversation they have been having is striking me awkwardly...They sound like they still have feelings for each other. And as I finished the chapter I felt kind of sad. It sounded like they have major lust for each other but they ignore it they wont act upon it!!!. Just because of the towns people and what they will think of them. Why don't they move FAR FAR away...
Because of the time this was written?
Because it doesn't cross there mind?
I Don't know...I'm excited to keep reading!
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