30.)“Mother, the sunshine does not love you. It runs away and hides itself because it is afraid of something on your chest. See! There it is, playing in the distance. Stay here and let me run and catch it. I am only a child. It will not flee from me, for I wear nothing on my chest yet!”
This quote represents pearls innocence, even though she is the symbol of her mothers sin she does not have any sins herself that would make it so the sun(lightness/representing good) does not hide from her. Pearl claims that she does not wear anything on her chest yet meaning that she has nothing to be ashamed of, nothing to hide.
Anna - good, much better job. You connect the quote with the interpretation. It also relates to a theme. Continue this. So the light = not having to be ashamed? Is this different than sin?
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