fictional intro about the “story,” claiming it to be true. Claiming the scarlet, gold-embroidered patch of cloth shaped as an “A” was found in a customhouse attic, along with documents, and a manuscript describing the scene, two hundred years before, and this novel being the product. It then dives into the real novel, bringing us into the Puritan era, seventeenth-century Boston. We then see Hester Prynne with a scarlet letter “A” on her chest, a young woman, being brought out of the town’s prison…
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