Zusammenfassung der Ressource
I. The Prison Door (The Scarlet Letter)
- Notes
- Events
- A crowd of men and women assemble
in front of a large wooden building
- They are the founders of a
new colony and allot land for
a cemetery and prison
- The forefathers of Boston
built the first prison house
somewhere near Cornhill
- Their first burial-ground was built
on Issac Johnson's lot of land
- 15 years later the town had already had
signs of weathering. The jailhouse had
weather stains which made it look
gloomier
- A rose bush had survived
during the history of this jail
house
- It may have symbolized the sweet
morality of humans and brightening
the tale of human frailty and sorrow
- Vocab
- Throng - A large, densely packed crowd of people or animals
- Edifice - a building, especially a large, imposing one
- Invariably - in every case or on every occasion; always
- Sepulchers - a small room or monument, cut in rock or
built of stone, in which a dead person is laid or buried
- Vocab