A) <span>She contemplates killing both Pearl and herself to escape their torment.
At times, Hester contemplates whether or not Pearl would be better off going straight to heaven (dying) before her life even begins, and whether she should just end her life as well, and go to wherever God judges in the afterlife. </span>
William S. Burroughs' experiments with form included cut-up technique.
He did not really experiment with scissors, but rather he folded pages.
The speaker had a specific identity. He was A.H.'s friend and this was the way he mourned him. No one else mourned him with those words. No one else shared the same experiences with A.H. The I may be known to the reader but that doesn't matter. The I is expressing his personal grief in his poems.
