My favorite chapter in this book was chapter 18: A Flood of Sunshine. The reason why I liked this chapter so much was because it was so bright and full of happiness. Now that they have decided to go to Europe, Arthur Dimmesdale says he is finally happy and joyful again. In earlier chapters, Pearl has said that the sunshine fears and runs away from her mother's scarlet letter; Hester has removed the letter and flung it into a pond and now Pearl describes that the sun is bright and lights up the forest, which they are in. "All at once as will a sudden smile of heaven, forth burst the sunshine, pouring a very flood onto the obscure forest." (page 199) Hester feels the weight lifted off of her and she lets down her hair and finally regains some confidnece. This chapter just makes you feel so happy for Hester, she is finally almost free of this horrible punishment. I just really loved reading this chapter, it was so beautiful the way Hawthorne describes the happiness and the love shared among Dimmesdale, Hester and Pearl; it finally shows the three as a family. "Such was the sympathy of Nature - that wild, heathen Nature of the forest, never subjugated by human law, nor illumined by higher truth - with the bliss of these two spirits! Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunsine, filling the heart so full of radiance that it overflows upon the outward world." (page 199)
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