Taylor Jagat
Mr. Williams
Honors American Literature
12 May 2015
The Scarlett Letter Chapter Notes
Chapter 1
 A group of men and women are waiting outside of a prison
 There’s a rosebush next to the prison door, it’s kind of like something to
bright the moody on a gloomy day
Chapter 2
 A lady named Hester Prynne comes out of the prison with a baby
 Hester is wearing a red ‘A’ on her clothes which is what adulterers have to
wear, the baby is illegitimate
 A ton of people are in the crowd judging her
 She has a flash black of her life in England and she sees her parents and her
husband
 She squeezed her baby so tight that it started to cry
Chapter 3
 Hester sees her husband in the crowd and he signals to her to keep is cover
safe
 Hester’s husband starts talking to other people in the crowd and asks why
Hester is up there
 The people in the crown tell Hester’s husband that she has committed
adultery. Hester’s husband asks with whom, but the people in the crowd said
Hester won’t tell
 Hester’s punishment is being on the scaffold for three hours and she has to
wear the scarlet letter ‘A’ on her chest for the rest of her life.
 Reverend Dimmesdale tries to convince Hester to say who the babies father
is
 Hester says her child will only know a Heavenly Father
 After Reverend Wilson delivered the sermon, Hester is taken back into the
prison
Chapter 4
 Hester got to speak to her husband, Roger in the prison because her husband
was a physician and there was medical assistance needed
 Roger tries to give Hester a potion, but she is hesitant because she thinks he
might poison her
 Roger doesn’t want to hurt Hester, he wants to get revenge on the babies
father
 He tries and tries to get Hester to confess her lover, but she won’t
 Roger makes her promise to not tell anyone his real identity
 Roger gave Hester a creepy smile and she feared for her life, but Roger
reassured her that he is after the baby’s father
Chapter 5
 Hester was set free from prison

She stepped outside and the sun was shinning right on the scarlet letter, like
it was on purpose
 Hester moved into a cabin and kept her distance
 She has a job doing needlework, she kind of becomes the hot new fashion
designer
 She begins to feel lonely and starts donating her time to helping out in the
community
 Even the people she’s helping make fun of her
Chapter 6
 Hester’s baby was a girl named Pearl
 Pearl has her mother’s personality which worries Hester
 Pearl is excluded from hanging with the other kids
 Hester tries to tell Pearl about her Heavenly Father, but Pearl says she has no
Heavenly Father
 Pearl kind of mocks her mother with the scarlet letter
Chapter 7
 Hester makes a stop the governor’s place to drop off some gloves and to see if
Pearl will be taken from her
 The town thinks Pearl is a demon child
 If Pearl isn’t a demon child then she will be given to another family
 A group of kids start throwing mud and Pearl and Hester. Little Pearl gets
mad and starts fight them all off
 Pearl sees a flower from the rosebush an starts begging for it
Chapter 8
 The governor and his squad walk up to Pearl and Hester.
 They want to see if Pearl really is a little demon so Reverend Willson asks her
some questions but she refuses to give the correct answers
 Hester is begging the governor to keep Pearl
 Reverend Dimmesdale and Pearl share a cute moment together
 Hester is invited to party worshipping the devil and she declinces
Chapter 9
 Roger is just chilling in Boston
 The community is thankful for him because he is a doctor
 Everyone called doctors leeches because they used leeches to get blood from
patients
 Dimmesdale clutches his heart a lot
 Dimmesdale refuses to marry and needs someone to live with them because
of his medical conditions, so Roger moves in
 The townspeople believe Roger is the devil
Chapter 10
 Roger is a really great doctor, he devoted to it
 Dimmesdale starts asking Roger about this plant when suddenly they hear a
noise

Pearl was outside dancing on a grave the she put burrs on her mom’s scarlet
letter
 Pearly heard Reverend Dimmesdale talk about her so she threw one of the
burrs at him and she began to do a happy clap
 Pearl then told her mother to go with her before the Black Man (Roger)
would get her
 Pearl then continued to skip over people’s graves
 Roger thinks Dimmesdale is Pearl’s father
 Dimmesdale and Roger get in an argument but they patch it out
 Dimmesdale falls asleep and Roger opens up his shirt and finds something
his chest
Chapter 11
 Roger continues to get revenge on Reverend Dimmesdale
 Dimmesdale knows not to trust Roger but he does it anyways because he has
committed more sins than Roger
 Dimmesdale wants to confess but doesn’t
 Dimmesdale has a vision of Hester pointing her finger to a her stomach and
then the scarlet letter on her chest
Chapter 12
 Dimmesdale goes to the scaffold and stands there angry. He gets so mad at
himself that he scream out
 Hester and Pearl see Dimmesdale at the scaffold and hold his hand. They
plan to meet back up the next day
 A scarlet ‘A’ comes over the sky and Roger is standing there smiling
 Dimmesdale asks Hester who Roger really is but she remains silent
 The townspeople thought it was an ‘A’ for angel
Chapter 13
 Hester thought someone was “controlling” Dimmesdale
 It’s been 7 years since Hester was up on the scaffold and had played a huge
role in the community
 Eveyone started see Hesters ‘A’ as able
 She was self ordained a sister or mercy
 Hester thought of her old self and began to worry about Pearl
Chapter 14 (All takes place at the beach)
 Hester asked Roger to leave Dimmesdale alone
 Hester told Roger she’s going to tell Dimmesdale the truth about them
 Hester knows Roger knows that Dimmesdale is Pearl’s dad
 Roger has changed; he’s obsessed with getting revenge. He’s evil now
 Hester takes them blame for Roger becoming evil
 Roger believes it’s his fate to get back at Dimmesdale
Chapter 15
 Roger has grey beard that almost touches the ground
 Hester reflected on how she could marry Roger, she thinks he’s gross now

Pearl was playing with everything she could find near the ocean. She began
to feel remorse for hurting a creature.
 She grabbed some seaweed and because to dress her self up like a mermaid.
She had her mom’s gift of costume. She even put an ‘A’ on her chest made out
of seagrass
 Pearl and Hester begin to talk about what the ‘A’ meant
 Pearl makes the connection to why Dimmesdale always clutches his heart
 Hester realizes that Pearl is too young to understand the whole situation so
she falls back from telling her everything
 Of course Pearl still tries her best to get it out of her mom
Chapter 16
 Hester plans on telling Dimmesdale the truth about Roger in the woods, Pearl
comes along
 Pearl asks her mother to tell her about Black Man
 Pearl overheard an old lady talk about how the scarlet letter was the Black
Man’s mark on Hester
Chapter 17
 Hester is finally alone with Dimmesdale and she confesses the Roger is her
husband
 Dimmesdale becomes upset and starts putting all the blame in Hester for his
hardship
 He then calms down a realizes that Hester chose him over Roger, but now he
worries if Hester will spill his secret
 Hester and Dimmesdale plan to steal a ship and sail the Europe
Chapter 18
 Since Dimmesdale and Hester decided to runway to Europe, they were both
super pumped
 Hester throws off her scarlet letter and let her hair down
 Hester calls Pearl over and walks towards them with caution
Chapter 19
 Pearl sees her parents super happy from across the way
 She stops walking towards them and just stares. Pearl won’t go towards her
mother because she is no longer wearing the scarlet letter
 Hester puts the scarlet letter back on and Pearl goes to her
 Pearl kisses her mom and the scarlet letter
 Dimmesdale gives Pearl a kiss on the forehead
 Pearl want to go back home hand in hand with her parents, but Dimmensdale
refuses to so Pearl runs to the water to try and wipe off her father’s kiss
Chapter 20
 Hester and Dimmesdale decided to go to Bristol, England because it’s better
for his health
 Hester has gotten close with the ship crew, so they got the hookup
 Dimmesdale says he’s a new man, he left his past self in the woods
Chapter 21
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
The town celebrates a new governor and festivities are taking place
Pearl asks her mother why Dimmesdale does not want to be seen with them
in public
 As Hester is thinking about how free she will be without Roger there, she
then gets news that Roger will be on board because they need a doctor
 Hester looks up to Roger smiling at her super creepy
Chapter 22
 Hester takes note of everything happening and realizes what Pearl said about
Dimmesdale is true. He acts as if Hester does not exist in public
 Misstress Hibbins stands next to Hester and notices she is not wearing the
scarlet letter
 Everyone in the market place is eyeballing Hester
Chapter 23
 Dimmesdale finished his sermon and the crowd is moved
 As everyone is leaving Dimmesdale walks over to Hester and Pearl
 Dimmesdale takes off his shirt showing his chest, to show the mark
 Roger yells out because his plan for revenge was ruined
 Pearl finally get to embrace her father in public
 Dimmesdale dies
Chapter 24
 All the witnesses say they saw the mark on Dimmesdale’s chest
 Some people believed Dimmesdale’s death was cause by Roger poisoning
him
 Everyone saw Dimmesdale’s confession as one of the greatest things of all
time