Explanation: Hi, Growing up in Salem, Massachusetts, had a very influential effect on him. Salem was, and is still, considered one of the most haunted and supernatural places on earth. He grew up in an extremely religious environment. Several of his ancestors were involved with the Salem witch trials. The evidence of this influence on hawthorne can be found in his writings. He loved writing on puritan society (a strict religious discipline), sin, and religious issues of the time. This is made clearly evident in his most famous work “The Scarlet Letter.”
