This book first begins in 1642 on a June day. Hester Prynne is taken before crowd of people in a Boston town. Hester was holding in her arms a baby. On the bodice of her dress a scarlet letter A, which stood for adultery. Hester was staying in a jail with her child after she was found out of seducing another man, while her husband was in captivity by Indians. No one in the town knew …
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