Positive Rewards In Hawthorne's 'The Scarlet Letter'

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¨Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you're positive, good things happen.¨ This quote once said by Deep Roy states that to have good things happen, one has to just be a overall good person. The Scarlet Letter is a story of redemption and one of defeat. It is a story of a trying mother Hester Prynne, and her daughter, Pearl, overcoming some challenging times. Hawthorne proves that positive actions deserve positive rewards through the use of symbols such as pearl, and sunshine. Represented in the symbolic use of pearl Hawthorne shows how positive actions deserve positive rewards. In Chapter 16 of the novel Hester takes pearl on a walk in the forest and hester notices the sun refuses to shine on her. Hawthorne