Read this excerpt from chapter 2 of The Scarlet Letter using comprehension strategies. It was no great distance, in those days,
from the prison-door to the market-place. Measured by the prisoner's experience, however, it might be reckoned a journey of some length; for, haughty as her demeanour was, she perchance underwent an agony from every footstep of those that thronged to see her, as if her heart had been flung into the street for them all to spurn and trample upon. What is the meaning of this excerpt? The walk from prison to scaffolding grew farther over the years as the town expanded. The walk from prison to scaffolding seemed a long and treacherous journey to Hester. The walk from prison to scaffolding was short, but the onlookers were a violent crowd. The walk from prison to scaffolding was both emotionally and physically painful for Hester.
The meaning of this excerpt is that the walk from prison to scaffolding seemed a long and treacherous journey to Hester
Scarlet letters was a book written in the Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony from 1642-1649. The book is about a woman called Hester Prynne, who had a female child via an affair and had to live a hard life to make a new life of repentance and dignity.
The statement above means that the journey of Hester was not an easy one as it was long, tiring and betrayals along the way but she still kept moving.
Conclusively we can say that Hester hard a very hard life full with struggles, betrayals, but she still kept moving.
