The Scarlet Letter Group Work, Chapters 10 - 15

Chapters 10 – 15 Passage Responses Today during our class period you are first going to work with a partner to analyze two passages from chapters 10 – 15. After you finish this and turn it in, you may then read for the rest of the period (remember, for Monday, the homework is to read through chapter 22 - and expect a quiz). For this assignment, turn in one written response per partnership with both names on it.

Chapter 10 From early in the chapter (p. 82 in my book): “Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.” Explain the quotation in terms of the novel (surface level and sub-text if applicable) Explain how/why the premise of this quote could be true. Connect this line of thinking to real life in current times (examples, hypotheticals, etc…).

Chapter 11 Toward the end of the chapter (p. 96 in my book): “…he loved the truth, and loathed the lie, as few men ever did. Therefore, above all things else, he loathed his miserable self!” Explain the quotation in terms of the novel (surface level and sub-text if applicable) Explain how/why the premise of this quote could be true. Connect this line of thinking to real life in current times (examples, hypotheticals, etc…).

Chapter 12 From early in the chapter (p. 100 in my book): “He had been driven hither by the impulse of that Remorse which dogged him everywhere, and whose own sister and closely linked companion was that Cowardice which invariably drew him back with her tremulous gripe just when the other impulse had hurried him to the verge of a disclosure.” Explain the quotation in terms of the novel (surface level and sub-text if applicable) Explain how/why the premise of this quote could be true. Connect this line of thinking to real life in current times (examples, hypotheticals, etc…).

Chapter 13 Toward the end of the chapter (p. 118 in my book): “The scarlet letter had not done its office…The old man, on the other hand, had brought himself nearer to her level, or perhaps below it, by the revenge which he had stooped for.” Explain the quotation in terms of the novel (surface level and sub-text if applicable). Explain how/why the premise of this quote could be true. Connect this line of thinking to real life in current times (examples, hypotheticals, etc…).

Chapter 14 Toward the end of the chapter (p. 126 in my book): “There is no path to guide us out of this dismal maze.” Explain the quotation in terms of the novel (surface level and sub-text if applicable) Explain how/why the premise of this quote could be true. Connect this line of thinking to real life in current times (examples, hypotheticals, etc…).

Chapter 15 Toward the beginning of the chapter (p. 130 in my book), Hester is reflecting on Chillingworth and thinks… “Be it sin or no sin, I hate the man…Such scenes had once appeared not otherwise than happy, but now, as viewed through the dismal medium of her subsequent life, they classed themselves among her ugliest remembrances…She marveled she could ever have been wrought upon to marry him…He has done me worse wrong than I did him.” Explain the quotation in terms of the novel (surface level and sub-text if applicable) Explain how/why the premise of this quote could be true. Connect this line of thinking to real life in current times (examples, hypotheticals, etc…).