This book first begins in 1642 on a June day. Hester Prynne is taken before crowd of people in a Boston town. Hester was holding in her arms a baby. On the bodice of her dress a scarlet letter A, which stood for adultery. Hester was staying in a jail with her child after she was found out of seducing another man, while her husband was in captivity by Indians. No one in the town knew who her lover was. As her punishment she was to wear a scarlet A on her bosom and stand in front of the public for hours at a time.
             Once her baby became sick a doctor was sent into her cell to help. When he arrived Hester found out that it was her husband from bout a year ago that had been released by the Indians. He had taken the name of Roger Chillingworth instead of Roger Prynne so no one would know whom he was. He mad Hester promise not to tell anyone who he was, she agreed.
             Hester's baby was growing up and was named pearl. Pearl and Hester lived in seclusion in a deserted thatched cottage away from the town. As pearl grew up she showed signs of being a problem child, and being obsessed with the scarlet A. Rumors started spreading that she was a "demon offspring".
             Chillingworth ends up faking that he is a doctor and tells Dimmesdale that he should live with him. Dimmesdale is the man that Hester had an affair with, and is Pearl's father. Already Dimmesdale suffers from sin and feels as though he's dying. Chillingworth takes advantage of him and tries to draw out that he is the man who had an affair with Hester. Chillingworth makes him suffer so much than soon Dimmesdale faded away from society, only to be fighting against one of the Devil's messengers, Chillingworth.
             Eventually Hester and Arthur Dimmesdale meet in the woods and plan to escape Boston and start a new life together. Unfortunately Chillingworth finds out about it and plans on boarding the same boat that Arthur and Hester plan on e...