Emma Gira
November 4

In response to Ruby's question:

If the town had known whose Pearl's father was all along, then I believe that Hester would have been hanged right away. Reverend Dimmesdale also would have either been banished and lost his job, or hanged along wiht Hester. Pearl would have probably been given to a different family to be raised, or looked at as an unpure, demon child and may have been killed with Hester. If Hester and Dimmesdale did die, they would have probably died happier, than they had in the novel because they would have died with the comfort of each other. Either way, if the father's identity had been revealed at the beginning of the novel, there would be no story.