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Monday, April 7, 2014

The Child at the Brook Side

Chapter 19, "The Child at the Brook Side," follows "A Flood of Sunshine, " in which Hester and Dimmesdale are enthralled in the hope of a new and better life away from Boston.  After this taste of joy in this "dark tale of human frailty" we are thrust into Chapter 19, which many critics have claimed to be the most painful of all chapters in the novel.  What do you find especially heart-wrenching in this chapter?  Give a quote or two that reveal this agony and explain how it/theymade you feel.  (The deadline to post a response to this blog question is midnight, April 8, 2014.)