Hawthorne's purpose for the first four chapters of The Scarlet Letter is to portray what is the Puritan Law and its effects to the people. He is referring the Puritan law as rust of tradition and it has obsolete purpose.<span> </span>
The gifts because the old man took his stuff and gave it back to him, to pretty much in a way say " it's okay"
<span>Language
is said to be species-specific because only humans posses language,
and species-uniform because every normal human posses language. It is
truth that other animals posses various degrees of communication
systems, but they are not complex enough to be considered language.
In addition, even though the ability of acquiring a language is
genetically inherit, the specific language that a child acquires is
completely obtained trough the cultural environment.</span>