Response to Literature chapters 16-24
Several days later Hester meets Dimmesdale in the forest and Pearl is now seven. Pearl continues to inquire persistently about Hester's past, the scarlet letter and the minister. Hester sends Pearl off to play so that she can talk with the clergyman alone. Hester reveals Chillingsworth true inducements with the minister and Hester begs for forgiveness and is forgiven. The two also infer about leaving Boston and escaping on a boat to Europe, which both agree become overjoyed, Hester rips off her scarlet A. Hester then beckons Pearl over, but refuses to obey until Hester puts on the letter. Election day was hither, Hester had arranged passport to Europe and later that day Roger discovers