Scarlet Letter, Child Perception
A child's brutal honesty can be a gift or a blessing. Their naive ness to other's perceptions and prejudice has their comments and actions cause them no embarrassment or harm, because as a child they hold certain innocence. Children have the tendency to talk "trash" about their surroundings and the people surrounding them because of their naive ness they seem to have a sense of perception than an adult could ever have. They have the uncanny ability to gossip about everything and nothing at the same time. Perceiving the world around them with no limitations or self-censorship. Pearl's perception of the world around her seems to be a combination of the non self-censored childish and the high maturity of a mature adult. For a short period in everyone's life you are a child. Your ignorance to the world is your window through which you view the world. At a very young age, not too long after you being to speak you begin to comment on the world around you. A child is usually naive to other's prejudice, which allows for comments to be told openly and without shame, good or bad. The children of Boston seem to have a perception of Hester as an evil woman, a woman that made a pact with the devil. These children's perceptions generally se
"Yea, his honorable worship is within. The children of Boston constantly torment Hester and Pearl. As her mother is looking at the first reflection Pearl points at the headpiece of the Armour and where she sees her own reflection. But he hath a godly minister or two with him, and likewise a leech. When Pearl reacts to the other children's actions, she gestures at them, and then takes flight towards them while yelling with great volume and aggression scaring the other children off. The other reflection that Pearl pointed out is that of her mother. In her reflection she sees the Scarlet Letter taking up almost all of the reflection, as if she were to be hiding behind the Scarlet Letter. The extremity of the chilldrens hatred torwards the pair reaches a climax when Pearl is age three. Their actions were out of ignorance, tormenting another child because of who her mother is, and what their parents have gossiped about the town, not knowing the true matter or having their own real opinion about the situation. Knowing that something was "not right" about the two. Which was an accurate portrayal of how the community was viewing her at the time, all that the people around her could see was the Scarlet Letter on her chest, displaying her sin to the world. In the reflection of herself, Hester saw the Scarlet Letter's distorted reflection covering almost the entire reflection, allowing only so much of Hester to be revealed in the reflection. As a child they seem to hold certain innocence though because they are ignorant so their warped perceptions and comments are "ok" to have. " Pearls perception of the world around her seems to always be an accurate perception of how the community around her and her mother views them.
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