• Group 1
Darius Reed
Bailee Mackey
Rachel Rayburn
Alex Foust
• Group 2
Noah Wagenman
Slade Harrell
Anita Bracamontes
Miranda Watson
Channing Burleson
Marlin Foy
Forrest
Caitlyn Terebessy
Seating Chart
• Group 3
Brandon Sanchez
Isaac Venegas
Tony Gonzalez
Chandler Berry
Isai Bracamontes
Araceli Bocanegra
Grace Holland
Caleigh Anuszkiewicz
Bailey Estes
Cassidy Crockett
Aaron Vanderburg
The
Scarlet Letter
Chapter 13 & 14
Shelby Neatherlin & Brandon Rolston
• Hester is beginning to be more active in her community
and is helping out in every way she possibly can to be
accepted and make her and Pearl’s life easier as time
goes on. Not much has changed, they still talk about her
as a “what not to do” or the example of “who you don’t
want to be but since she is doing more and more
volunteering, people start to associate with her more.
Even though she is showing love and compassion to her
community, she is starting to change. In this chapter you
can see that she has changed from a sweet woman to a
more strict and mean woman.
Summary: Chapter 13
• Hester and Pearl are at a beach when Hester sees
Chillingworth. Hester looks at Chillingworth and describes
that there had been some major changes in him since he
arrived in the colony. She describes the change as him going
from a calm and quiet man to a fierce carefully guarded
man. He had an devilish appeal to him. She tells Chillingworth
that he really needs to stop torturing Dimmesdale.
Chillingworth says that the clergyman owes this to him. The
suffering and the pain is all payment for the sins he had
committed. He then starts blaming Hester for the monster he
has become. Hester then says that she is going to reveal
Chillingworth’s real identity. They end the conversation by
Chillingworth telling Hester how she has wronged him.
Summary: Chapter 14
• Hester Prynne
Hester is transformed into a newer and different version of herself.
She’s a meaner and more harsh person. She isn’t the same kind hearted
woman she was when we met her in the beginning of the book.
• Roger Chillingworth
The calm, smart, mysterious man that Chillingworth was at the
beginning of the book is now looked at as evil and is even considered
crazy. His life has taken a toll and instead of spending his time trying to
make people well, he is tormenting the poor and sickly clergyman
Dimmesdale. He is changing for the worst and the author explains how
ever since the story took place seven years ago, his facial features are
described as evil. His eyes show the craziness that’s going on in his
head.
Character Analysis
• Romantic
The A started to shift meanings from the puritan idea of
punishment to the romantic idea of idealism
• Puritan
Before in previous chapters, it says that Hester was an
attractive woman. But after seven years she has undergone a
change in appearance that made her more puritan like. The
chapters explain that her look has become more dull, more
unattractive. Before, she seemed to radiate beauty, but now
it’s like she is being restricted.
Romantic & Puritan Ideas
• Irony
Its ironic how Chillingworth is taking all of his pain he has stored
up for for Hester and is taking out on Dimesdale.
• Narrative Voice
The narrator is talking in third person almost the entire time. He
describes how the characters feel. The narrator doesn't’t know all
of the emotions of every single character nor does he know every
thought of every single character. But he helps describe how
things are being said so the audience can almost hear the
characters yelling at each other in their heads.
Literary Devices
• Symbolism
The “A”: instead of still being used to stand for adulteress all the
time, it also is starting to stand for “able.”
• Imagery
The author uses imagery in these chapters to describe the
settings and the actions of the characters in the chapters. His
diction choice makes an impact on how the reader sees the
image. “His moral force was abased into more than childish
weakness. It groveled helpless on the ground, even while his
intellectual facilities retained their pristine strength, or had
perhaps acquired a morbid energy, which disease only could have
given them.”
Literary Devices
• 1. Why does Hester start helping out in the community?
• 2. Where were Hester and Pearl when they saw
Chillingwoth in chapter 14?
• 3. How does Hester describe Chillingworth?
• 4. How does the author use imagery in the chapters?
• 5.What has the “A” started to stand for?
Quiz