wild roses that grew by the prison-door" (103). Pearl's refusal shows that she is honorable to her mother, knowing where she actually came from, also giving her knowledge of her awareness of the rose-bushes significance.
             To the Puritans, the forest represented evil because sinners signed their names in the "Black Man's" book (signing their names to the devil), but to the Romantics, the forest was where they could escape from the city's corrupt
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