Book Review : The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Summary: The Scarlet Letter tells the story about Hester Prynne has a child out of wedlock when her husband isn't in town. When the society discovers this, she is branded with a scarlet A and she has to undergo public shaming. She refuses to tell anyone who the father of the child is. But then Roger Chillingworth arrives who the reader later discovers is Hester's husband, and he makes it his life goal to find out who the father of her child his. Background: Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in 1804 in Salem, Massuchusetts (so cool, right?). One of his ancestors, John Hathorne actually a lead judge in the Salem Witch Trials and that is why Nathaniel turned his surname from Hathorne to Hawthorne - so he could distance himself from that ancestor. After he graduated from Bowdoin College, he returned to Salem and that is where he wrote The Scarlet Letter in 1804. After the book was published, protests broke out in Salem as many of the inhabitants believed that the book portrayed t...