1) I read the book "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, which was published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston and has 312 pages.
             2) The character that I liked the least was Dimmesdale. He should have been there for Hester and Pearl from the very first day. If he had been there for them, he would have gotten strength from that. He should have been there for Pearl more than Hester because she needed a father figure. That put even more strain on Hester; she had to be a father and a mother. Dimmesdale affected many people when he confessed. He affected his congregation by being a poor role model. He affected Chillingworth the most. Chillingworth gives up his independence. He used to be a scholar who dedicated his best years "to feed the hungry dream of knowledge," but his new mission becomes finding and slowly punishing the man who seduced his wife.
             3) One event that changed the outcome of the story was when Dimmesdale tells his congregation how he deceived them. When he did this, the outcome of the story changed dramatically. If he had not confessed, then he would have died much sooner and left the reader and the people of the town wondering who had participated with Hester in her horrible sin. It would also alter the way that Chillingworth spent the latter part of his life. Chillingworth used to be a scholar who gave up the best years of his life to seek revenge on the man who was the supposed father of Hester's child. "This unhappy person had effected such a transformation by devoting himself, for seven years, to the constant analysis of a heart full of torture, and deriving his enjoyment thence, and adding fuel to those fiery tortures which he analyzed and gloated over." He spent the latter part of his life trying to make another human miserable and he ended up succeeding, but he also made himself miserable !
             4) The story "The Scarlet Letter&quo
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