https://padlet.com/rj3king22/m1gvm2mrw3gd By Maribelle Taylor, Brandt Burns, and RJ Ibe en-us 2017-10-31 20:07:35 UTC 2026-01-28 17:53:48 UTC hello@padlet.com rj3king22 https://padlet.com/rj3king22/m1gvm2mrw3gd/wish/202322345       The initial usage of Sunlight in The Scarlet Letter symbolizes the way Hester and Pearl are implicated upon innocence and happiness as it can represent their freedom of sin as light as a hopeful truth and grace. The way sunlight is used can consciously show how purity is represented in Pearl and since Hester has committed adultery, she must be able to find her own sense of innocence or purity (sunlight). "No, my little Pearl! Thou must gather thine own sunshine. I have none to give thee" (pg. 104). This quote shows how Hester believes how she cannot be a prime example of innocence to Pearl. Therefore, Hester having no kind of innocence, which is a representation of sunlight, emphasizes the fact that Pearl must bring purity upon herself. Sunlight can also initiate self worth in the search of happiness and purity that Hester believes she doesn't have. "All at once, as with a sudden smile of heaven, forth burst the sunshine..." (pg. 197). This quote shows that once Hester takes the scarlet letter "A" off of her chest, she feels a burst of heavenly relief and "sunshine". This can also show how sunshine is a symbol of relief of heaviness within a person, and in this case it had to do with Hester and adultery as it tolled the way people judged her in life. ]]> 2017-10-31 20:22:50 UTC https://padlet.com/rj3king22/m1gvm2mrw3gd/wish/202322345 burnsbrandt40 https://padlet.com/rj3king22/m1gvm2mrw3gd/wish/202324109  

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]]> 2017-10-31 20:39:21 UTC https://padlet.com/rj3king22/m1gvm2mrw3gd/wish/202325791 burnsbrandt40 https://padlet.com/rj3king22/m1gvm2mrw3gd/wish/202326307 The scarlet letter represented the sin that Hester had committed, and causes her to believe that she is not worthy of God's love. Pearl notices how her mother shies away because of the letter and teases her mother by   joking that the sunlight (God's love) was afraid of the scarlet letter on her chest, rather than Hester herself. (pg. 105)]]> 2017-10-31 20:42:04 UTC https://padlet.com/rj3king22/m1gvm2mrw3gd/wish/202326307 maribell_304615 https://padlet.com/rj3king22/m1gvm2mrw3gd/wish/202328316 "All at once, as with a sudden smile of heaven, forth burst the sunshine..." (Chapter 18, Page 197)
after hester removes the scarlet letter, the sun shines down on her like heavens light. this shows how hester has found her self worth, and her own purity]]> 2017-10-31 20:53:00 UTC https://padlet.com/rj3king22/m1gvm2mrw3gd/wish/202328316 maribell_304615 https://padlet.com/rj3king22/m1gvm2mrw3gd/wish/203559304       In late 2001, many countries started a war with the Taliban that had overrun Afghanistan. This may have been the start of a war, but it was also the countries first experience of freedom. In a commentary entitled "Human Quality of Joy" given by Scott Simon, he addresses the newest pictures of the people in Afghanistan. For the first time in years, these people had freedom! They were no longer held by strict laws to wear burqas or have beards, "...once again, Afghan men and women could see and be seen. Once again, they could feel the sunlight." This podcast goes on to explain the harsh rules put in place by the Taliban, and the even harsher punishments. However, with this new freedom, they felt a joy that they had not been able to feel before. This article uses sunlight to emphasize the joy these people had after they were freed from the strict Taliban. This relates to sunlight in The Scarlet Letter because when Hester removes the scarlet letter, she feels this joy she could not feel while she wore this burdensome stigma. "She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom!" (pg. 199). In both of these instances, sunlight represented a joy that they had not known they could feel; a freedom they did not know they could have. ]]> 2017-11-04 18:15:12 UTC https://padlet.com/rj3king22/m1gvm2mrw3gd/wish/203559304 maribell_304615 https://padlet.com/rj3king22/m1gvm2mrw3gd/wish/203559698 Pearl represents the innocence and purity she brings into Hester's life. When Hester calls to Pearl, she comments on how she is enveloped in the sunlight (pg. 192), representing how Hester know's she cannot enter into the sunlight but can still watch her daughter bathe in its light. She see's Pearl as her example, as her goal of what she longs to return to; she wants to be able to feel the sun again.]]> 2017-11-04 18:20:46 UTC https://padlet.com/rj3king22/m1gvm2mrw3gd/wish/203559698 maribell_304615 https://padlet.com/rj3king22/m1gvm2mrw3gd/wish/204196006 Simon, Scott. “Commentary: Human Quality of Joy.” EBSCO Host, Newspaper Source Plus, 8 Dec. 2017, web.b.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail/detail?vid=3&sid=b58b770a-4aff-4dbb-a80d-d097219805a1%40sessionmgr104&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#AN=6XN200112081302&db=n5h.


Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Elf-Child and the Minister. The Scarlet Letter, Ticknor and Fields, 1850, pp. 104–105.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. A Flood of Sunshine. The Scarlet Letter, Ticknor and Fields, 1850, pp. 197–199.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Pastor and His Parishioner. The Scarlet Letter, Ticknor and Fields, 1850, pp. 192–192.]]> 2017-11-07 03:40:59 UTC https://padlet.com/rj3king22/m1gvm2mrw3gd/wish/204196006