The Scarlet Letter

Scarlet Letter is a book about the life of Hester Prynne who lives in
Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 1640s. Hester ends up with a daughter
for infidelity, And his colonia forces him to wear a scarlet letter A on her
bosom. In spite of everything, she refuses to say the name of the girl's
father.
The book start with the custom-house, the first chapter in which Hester is
briefly released from prison and the village decided to put on the scafford
for all to see the A in her chest. Also, she carries Pearl in his hands,
because the child with three months old was born in the prison. In the
platform of the scaffold she refuses to say the name of Pearl´s father
because he would be punished too. Then, the husband of Hester
appears in the prison and he beg her not to say that he is in the village
because he wants to discover who the lover is and take revenge on him.
The husband of Hester says that he is a Doctor called Roger
Chillingworth, and thanks to this discovered that the lover of his wife is
probably the pastor Arthur Dimmesdale. The woman lives in an isolated
cottage where she was doing needlework all day to give clothes to
officials and the poor, and also to her daughter. When Pearl was 3 years
old the village said that she should be taken away and given to a better
family, and Hester begged the governor not to do that. The governor
asked the girl some questions of religion that she do not answer well for
what the governor thought Hester was a bad mother, but finally Pearl
keeped in the village.Meanwhile the doctor was trying to find the lover of
Hester and one day, while Arthur was sleeping the Doctor opened his
shirt and he saw something that everything needs to now.
Hester's husband tells the townspeople that he is a doctor and takes a
false name: Roger Chillingworth. Hester keeps her secret. Before long,
Chillingworth realizes that the pastor, the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale,
is likely the father of Hester's daughter and torments the pastor's mind
and soul day and night for the next seven years.

The pastor is too afraid to confess his sin publicly. Chillingworth's

constant questions make him very nervous. Seven years pass, and
Hester finally realizes the wrong her husband has done to the man she
loves, the father of her daughter. He reveals Chillingsworth's true identity
to Dimmesdale and the two concoct a plan to leave Boston for England,
where they can hide from Hester's husband and make a new life
together.

In the end, the pastor is unable to execute the plan. Dimmesdale

confesses his sin to the citizens on the gallows that was the scene of
Hester's public shame seven years ago. His last act is to open his shirt
to reveal the scarlet "A" that he carved into his chest. Dimmesdale finds
peace through confession.

When Chillingworth dies about a year after his rival Dimmesdale, he

leaves all his money and property to Pearl. At last, Hester and Pearl can
leave the community where they have been outcasts for so long and
return to the old world.
When she dies, they bury her near the pastor and share a tombstone.
The tombstone has an image that is described as follows: "On a field,
sable, the letter A, gules.