In Hawthorne's novel the Scarlet Letter the character Pearl is the product of sin. Everyone in town thought of pearl as abnormal, unnatural, a demon child, and a symbol of adultery committed by her mother Hester Prynne and Father Dimmsdale (which people did not know of yet). This is Pearl and she is the outcast child.
Pearl is never going to be able to be seen as normal child, since birth she was always thought to be different, abnormal, and as a demonic child. "Pearl was a born outcast of the infantile world. An imp of evil, emblem and product of sin she had no right among christened infants" (95).Pearl was different from other children because she was born by a sin of adultery and without a father. It's said that some children like pearl were demon offspring from their mother's sin. Growing up she did not get along with the other children. She would speak in a "witch's anathemas in some unknown tongue"(96) when kids would gather around her, she would also use violence toward them unlike puritan children, which kept things inside. Pearl is a constant reminder of sin to her mother. For example when the government tried taking little Pearl from Hester one reason she was able to stay because every time Hester looked at her she was reminded of her sin. Pearl also isn't as religious or as serious about religion as other puritans in the colony. An example of this from first the first chapter when Hester said that the heavenly father sent us pearl says she has no heavenly father.
