Sojourner Truth
Monday, December 8, 2014
The Letter A
I remember reading The Scarlet Letter when I was in high school and did not care for it to much. I personally do not think they should force students in high school to read the book because many have a hard time understanding it and a lot of students do not want to read something that they are forced to. However, after reading the story again I have a better understanding and appreciation for it. I found the story, not bad, but the style or the sentence structure to be unreadable. I think the story displays the changing role of a woman and the hardships Hester Pynne had to endure. I really enjoyed Hawthorne's use of symbolism throughout the novel when describing the letter, Pearl, light, darkness and the scaffold. I think at least in high school, it requires a teacher who is willing to break it down and explain the setting, background and definitely the use symbolisms!
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I do agree with this, it is a hard read, I felt like I got a whole new meaning reading it this time around than when I was in middle school. There is way too much meaning in this story for someone so young to grasp what it really means. I didn't get the symbolism near as much then, if at all, as I do now. So I agree that this really is a story that you have to read later in life to get anything out of, because I think you have to experience life to even begin to know what is going on in this story.
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