The book Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is famous book that came out in 1864 is a book that tells a story about a young women named Hester. The story behind Hester is that she committed a great sin back in the time it was set for which was she had a baby out of wedlock. This isn't that big of a deal now but back in the seventh century this was considered a great sin and the consequences were big.but no matter how big are they were Hester refused to tell why the actual father was and her consequence for this was that she had to wear the scarlet letter which a "A" that stood for adultery and she had to stand in the town square for everyone to see. But even after all this Hester still has such a strong image and seems to always be looking at the best of these things. In the book Nathaniel Hawthorne gives Hester such a strong image at seems like nothing can take her down.
A few story plots that support my idea of Hester and how strong of a women she is mentally is. One time when the towns people of Boston gave her the option of leaving the city or staying she choose to stay which I felt showed that she wasn't scarred of this sin that she had done and the the towns people or nothing like that was going to scare her out the town. I felt that this also showed the strength that most people thought women in the 17 century didn't have, which I thought was really cool the Hawthorne gave her this characteristic. Another sense in the book that I felt Hester was really empowering was in the beginning of the book when Hester walked out of the jail cell. In this sense Hester has to walk out of the jail cell wearing the embroidered A and walk into the town square. But when she comes out of the cell the first thing people notice is how amazing the A is stitched on to the dress. I liked this since because I felt like it showed that Hester was able to turn something that was supposed to be bad and shunning to something people are jealous about because of how well embroidered it is.
I think this connects to teenagers all over the world because this book sends out many lessons like you are always able to to turn the worse into the best and never run away from something that is trying to scare you. I felt like another's message that was in it was that you are strong even if people try to put you down. I thought this connected to teens because it put across messages that sometimes I think teenagers need to hear or just learn so it can help them get through something.
