7.)"Her Pearl--for so had Hester called her; not as a name expressive of her aspect, which had nothing of the calm, white, unimpassioned lustre that would be indicated by the comparison. But she named the infant "Pearl," as being of great price--purchased with all she had--her mother's only treasure!"
Pearl is continuously compared to nature, a pearl has been known to be something something very rare, fine, admirable, and valuable. Hester has lost everything she had but gained Pearl. So now Pearl is everything Hester has which makes her valuable and she is much different then normal children more wild which makes her rare and she is extremely beautiful like her mother.
8.)"snatching up stones to fling at them, with shrill, incoherent exclamations that made her mother tremble, because they had so much the sound of witch's anathemas in some unknown tongue."
Again Pearl is being compared to something evil as she chucks rocks at little kids, which is pretty wrong in this town i would say. Whats funny is that it frowned upon to throw rocks but the other kids instigated it by saying mean things to her. Puritans are not supposed to gossip if they do they will be punished but it seems like all this community does is gossip about Hester and Pearl shouldn't they all be facing some kind of punishment.
9.)"nor was Pearl the only child to whom this inauspicious origin was assigned, among the New England Puritans"
Hester is not the only mother or parent who has committed a sin and they think that when kids act wickedly it is because of there mothers sin but she is not alone. I am sure there are many people who have committed sins in the Puritan society who have not been discovered. Puritans are pretty much all prisoners of there own society they aren't allowed to be individual at all they all have to act the same way do the same things have the same morals, so it would be hard not to sin. Hester was caught though so everyone knows about her and Pearl is growing up with this isolated mother but she is different then the other children she is individual and to a non-puritan is a good thing.
Good comments about Pearl. Her being an outsider is a good thing? What is the role of an outsider? To give insight into the society. She is free to rebel because she is not part of it - just like the Indians and the seamen.
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