Mason's Reading/Writing Outside of Class

In Mrs. Steele's class, we are reading the novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathanel Hawthrorne. It is about a a young lady who committs adultery with a man in the village. She gets pregant and she goes to jail for 3 months. Her punishment for this sin is jail for 3 months and she has to stand up on the scaffold in front of the whole town with all the shame of the sin. hester has to wear an "A" om her clothes so that everybody will know what she has down. Her child's name is Pearl and Pearl doesn't understand the meaning behind the "A", Hester tells her she is wearing it for the sake of the golden thread. When Hester takes the "A" off her child, Pearl, won't come to her because she doesn't recognize her. Hester puts the "A" back on and Pearl kisses both of her mother's cheeks, her brow and she kissses the "A". We have only read to Chapter 20.