The Scarlet Letter-Ch.1 The prison-Door

On the first day of the school after Christmas break, in American Lit. class, we started to discuss the book"The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne. We also watched a short ten minute video tape of "The Scarlet Letter."

In the first chapter of the book, it makes me feel so depressing in a negative way. In the class, Mr. Cook told us that Hawthorne liked to use symbols. The prison symbolizes sin, and the cemetery gives us a feeling of death. The interesting part is in front of the prison door, grows a bush of roses. It gives us hope. The introduction sounds so desperate, but the emergence of roses gives us hope. It makes me think that the main character, Hester Prynne, has hope.