Naiara Senra wrote The following book report for Mr. Samuel Jaja's writing and composition class at Notre Dame School. Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote The Scarlet Letter a 1850s novel. Published in 1850 by Ticknor & Fields, it began Hawthorne's most lucrative period and consists of two hundred and seventy-two pages. The Scarlet Letter has inspired many films, novels, and stage adaptations. I read this book not only because it was on a required reading list for one of my school classes, but also because it had been recommended to me by a friend a while ago. The book was an instant best-seller and was also one of the first mass-produced books in America. It's considered to be Hawthorne's masterwork.
The main characters are the center of a story; they make the key decisions and experience the consequences of those decisions. Throughout America's bestselling writer, Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter, we learn about the fascinating main characters. Amongst this characters, there's Hester Prynne, the protagonist and the wearer of the scarlet letter that gives the book its title. And there's Pearl, Hester's young illegitimate daughter with a mischievous spirit and an ability to perceive things that others do not. Roger Chillingworth, who's Hester's husband in disguise and our last main character
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Prominent characters in this book include Governor Bellingham, a wealthy gentleman who spends much of his time consulting with the other town fathers. And then there's the unforgettable Mistress, a widow who lives with her bother, Governor Bellingham, in a luxurious mansion. There's also reverend Mr. John Wilson, Boston's elder clergyman. As Governor Bellingham Wilson follows the community's rules strictly but can be swayed by Dimmesdale's eloquence. Last but not least, we have the narrator who works as the surveyor of the Salem Custom House some two hundred years after the novel's events takes