Hester exhibits great courage all throughout The Scarlet Letter. The best example of this courage is her willingness to stay in Boston, the town where both the sin and punishment took place. ... answered Hester Prynne, laying her finger on the red token. "Woman, it is thy badge of shame!" ... "It is because of the stain which that letter indicates that we would transfer thy child to other hands. " "Nevertheless," said the mother, calmly, though growing more pale, "this badge hath taught me "it daily teaches me "it is teaching me at this moment "lessons whereof my child may be ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Hester exhibits great courage all throughout The Scarlet Letter. The best example of this courage is her willingness to stay in Boston, the town where both the sin and punishment took place. ... answered Hester Prynne, laying her finger on the red token. "Woman, it is thy badge of shame!" ... "It is because of the stain which that letter indicates that we would transfer thy child to other hands. " "Nevertheless," said the mother, calmly, though growing more pale, "this badge hath taught me "it daily teaches me "it is teaching me at this moment "lessons whereof my child may be ...

• Word Count: 909
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Instead, Hester produces a creation of beauty on fine, red cloth with elaborate embroidery and gold threading. ... The letter, no longer viewed as a badge of shame, became a symbol of courage and power. ...

• Word Count: 1295
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

A marked out in line of dull red light."52 Many other people of the town see it as well, but each interprets it to his own liking, never once suggesting that it may just simply be a meteor.53 With the Age of Reason on the horizon in the late 18th century-early nineteenth century, "the area of the unknown [is] steadily contracting,"54 but "it has always existed, and it will always exist."55 America's first professional writer, Charles Brockden Brown, has a deep attraction...

• Word Count: 3126
• Approx Pages: 13
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• Grade Level: High School