There were so many things in the section of the book that
were important! However, I found chapter 9 to be quite boring to
read. There were a few good key points in this chapter. Roger has now taken the
role of a doctor and is now called a 'leech'. When I looked up more about this
term, I found it quite interesting to see that it meant that doctors' used to
drain blood from their patients! Roger is now the doctor of Dimmesdale because he has gotten
very ill. Since Dimmesdale did not want to marry anyone younger then him, Roger
is now living with him and is taking full care of him! 'As not only
the disease interested the physician, but he was strongly moved to
look into the character and qualities of the patient, these two men,
so different in age, came gradually to spend much time together.'(Hawthorne 119)
I found it a little weird that Roger spent TOO much time with his patient. The part
that grasped my attention a lot was that the town's people
are now starting to think of Roger as the devil! 'Reverend Arthur
Dimmesdale,in all ages of Christian world, was haunted either by Satan himself
in the guise of old Roger Chillingsworth.'(Hawthorne 124)
Chatter 10
of the novel took me sometime to understand. What I got from it was that the
Roger and Dimmesdale were having a conversation about Hester by Roger's plants.
They hear Pearl outside and she says ' Come away, Mother!, Come away,
or yonder old Black Man will catch you! (Hawthorne 131) Who is
this black man Pearl is talking about? One last thing that caught my eye
in this chapter was that Chillingsworth says Hester does not
live with her sins buried because she openly shows her 'A'!
I could
not believe a minster would commit adultery! At first I was kind of
angry with the minister because he had Hester take all the blame all these
years. People hated her for so many years and since no one wold have
expected the minister, he never say anything! I am happy now that at least
now he is sharing to the town what he has done. 'Come up hither once again, and
we will stand all three together!' (Hawthorne 149) It is great that he
finally went forward to the town and stood on the scaffold with the two of
them. People still do not believe though that he did it! Someone said he
dropped his glove but, ‘A pure hand needs no glove to cover it! (Hawthorne 155)
I am curious to see when the people will believe he did it. One of
my favorite chapters so far was chapter 11. This was the
first time that Hester and Roger have had a conversation in years! Throughout
the whole novel, I kept waiting for Roger to seek revenge on Hester. Now, we
know that the minister has no illness, and this secret is just eating
him alive! 'I must reveal the secret.' (Hawthorne 169) I am so proud
of Hester that she finally wants to stand up and show who the minister
really is.
3 comments:
chapter 10 confused me too, I thought it was really wordy and it did not really explain a lot about what was going on with Dimmesdale and Chillingworth. I thought the minister is a hypocrite for making it seem like Hester's sin was a one-woman job. And I think the minister did the right thing FINALLY by sharing with the town what he did.
Even though Dimmesdale stood on top of the scaffold, no one but Hester, Pearl, and Chilllingworth saw him on it. He still needs to reveal his sin to everyone else. The fact that he does this in the night privately is just sad. I honestly can't wait for the people's reactions when they find out he committed the adultery as well. Just saying.
Nice job! Good comments.
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