Scarlet Letter notes

The Scarlet Letter Ch1 Vocabulary -edifice (pg43) a usually large building -lot (pg43): plot of land -sepulchres (pg43): bury, entombed -inauspicious (pg44): not auspicious Character Analysis -Isaac Johnson: one of the first settlers of Boston, buried on his own land which became his lot. -Ann Hutchinson: prominent religious leader in Boston who preached that faith, rather than goof works and abidance by religious law, brought one closer to God. She was banished and excommunicated from …

…her long-forsaken shame! But where was little Pearl? If still alive she must now have been in the flush and bloom of early womanhood. None knew--nor ever learned with the fullness of perfect certainty--whether the elf-child had gone thus untimely to a maiden grave; or whether her wild, rich nature had been softened and subdued and made capable of a woman's gentle happiness." -Narrator - (pg248) "ON A FIELD, SABLE, THE LETTER A, GULES"-Narrator