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The moral of my life was to finish school, go through sports, and have a good life, a lavish one. One that could be spread throughout the world and secrets shared with others so that they could one day be as successful as you “were”. I wouldn’t consider myself very religious; I don’t get what the pastor is saying half the time because I’ve only read the bible a couple of times, when he says find this on this page I never know what he is talking about; sometimes I feel why even bother going to church? I feel that the main reason people go to church is to help them with something or they want something, hell half of my friends who go to church are probably the biggest assholes you’ll ever meet. You call it a religion; I could call it a secretion. Not an evitable word but not the point, the point is that the world is all about getting what you want, hey mom I want this, hey dad I want this. Most teenager think to get a job but aren’t committed to the job, they only want what the job has in stored for them to keep them working. s

Sin plays a great part in downfalls of characters and future resurrections. And the three main characters for sin in Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" are Dimmesdale, Chillingsworth, and Hester Prynne. All three characters are taken from the normal roles that society has laid upon them; minister, housewife, doctors, whore, and vengeance. These new roles are not necessarily evident to all in town. However, even though the townspeople do not know about the sins they have committed, God does. And in God's eyes, whose sin was greater? That has no right or wrong answer. But in a normal society, the sin of Chillingsworth is worst than the sin of Dimmesdale or Hester Prynne, for Chillingsworths sin was one of revenge and secrecy. And his anger is not of his own sin, but by the sins the others have committed. He used cheating and control to make the life of another’s miserable.
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