Scarlet Letter - Part II

One of the major things our professor did to coincide with us reading "The Scarlet Letter" was to draw our own letter on a card that is representative of, according to him, our most egregious sin. Thinking about this, I was hesitant to do so since I, as a Christian, do not like to remind myself of my own sin, but rather forgive myself and move on knowing that God has forgiven me. I will not say what letter I put or what it represented, but I will say it was an interesting experience to sort of tie in with the story. In the story, Hester Prynne must wear her scarlet letter A for roughly seven years, having to endure sessions in which she stands on a scaffolding to be publicly condemned for her sin. For an average person in this day and age, this may be terrifying, though, even after she's worn it long enough, she does not discard it right away. Instead, she decides that it will come off whenever God wants it to. The way I see it is that she fully understands her mistake and wants to accept the fact that she did wrong to remind herself to repent. Similarly, the activity we did sort of tied into the same idea. An interesting way to coincide with the reading, indeed.