STAARS

S- Subject- Sin
T- Theme- Sinning affects everyone involved and has a major impact either intentionally or unintentionally.
A- Attitude- sympathetic, thoughtful, straightforward
A- Audience- The author is writing for people who have faced a sin in their life and feels regret for what they did. Also people who feel trapped in a society where they're always feeling judged and who feel like they're alone.
R- Rhetorical - symbolism
S- Strategies

Textual Evidence- "Mother," said little Pearl, "the sunshine does not love you. It runs away and hides itself, because it is afraid of something on your bosom. Now see! There it is, playing, a good way off. Stand you here, and let me run and catch it. I am but a child. It will not flee from me, for I wear nothing on my bosom yet!" (p. 191)
"But before Mr. Dimmesdale had done speaking, a light gleamed far and wide over all the muffled sky." (p. 159)



Sinning affects everyone involved and has a major impact either intentionally or unintentionally is the theme that is showed in the novel "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The genre of this novel is romantic and historical fiction. An example of symbolism in this novel would be the Scarlet Letter that Hester Prynne wears upon her breast. "Mother," said littler Pearl, "the sunshine does not love you. It runs away and hides itself, because it is afraid of something on your bosom. Now see! There it is, playing a good way off. Stand you here, and let me run and catch it. I am but a child. It will not flee from me, for I wear nothing on my bosom yet!" (p. 191). The Scarlet Letter is supposedly a symbol of shame but for Hester it is her identity. Her own child, Pearl, does not even recognize her without it on and she is a complete different person. The letter originally stands for adulterer but as time passes it starts to stand for able. Another example of symbolism would be, "But before Mr. Dimmesdale had done speaking, a light gleamed far and wide over all the muffled sky." (p. 159) The meteor that falls from the sky is symbolism because Dimmesdale sees it and thinks it traces out a letter "A" in the sky. The meteor implies that Dimmesdale should wear a mark of shame upon his chest just as Hester does. The rhetorical strategy, symbolism, enhances the meaning of the passage because it shows the reader what Dimmesdale is feeling and what it is compared to and really makes the reader connect more with the passage. Hawthorne is really good at making the reader connect with his writing and also he is really good at explaining what the characters are going through and what they are feeling. This novel would compare to the novel "The Crucible" by Arthur Miller. Both Proctor and Hester go through a period of shame in which they have to deal with the town looking down on them.