The Silver Linings Playbook Chapter 12

Failing Like Dimmesdale DidMaybe Puritans were simply dumber than modern people, notwithstanding I cannot believe how long it in additionk those seventeenth-century Bostonians to figure out that their spiritual leader knocked up the local hussy. I had the mystery solved in chapter eight, when Hester turns to Dimmesdale and says, Speak honey oil for me I know we were assigned Hawthornes The Scarlet Letter back in high initiate, and if I had known the book was filled with so frequently sex and espionage, I might expect read it when I was sixteen. God, I cant wait to ask Nikki if she hypes up the racy stuff in her class, because I know teenagers would actually read the book if she did.I didnt care more than for Dimmesdale, because he had such a great woman and he denied himself a life with her. Now, I understand that it would not have been easy for him to rationalise how he knocked up another mans teenage wife, especially since he was a man of the cloth, but if theres one theme Hawthorne hammers home, its that time heals all wounds, which Dimmesdale learns, but too late. Plus, Im thinking God would have wanted Pearl to have had a father, and probably counted Dimmesdales disregard for his daughter as a greater sin than having sex with another mans wife. Now, I sympathize with Chillingworth a lot. I mean, he s peculiaritys his young bride over to the New World, trying to give her a better life, and she ends up pregnant by another man, which is the ultimate thunder in the face, right? But he was so old and pissed and really had no business marrying a young girl anyway. When he began to psychologically torture Dimmesdale, giving him all those strange roots and herbs, Chillingworth reminded me of Dr. Timbers and his staff. I realized then that Chillingworth was not ever going to practice world benignant, so I gave up hope for him.But I abruptly loved Hester, because she believed in silver linings. Even when that nasty throng of bewhiskered men in hats an d fat women were against her, saying she should be branded on the forehead even, she stuck to her guns and sewed and helped people when she could and tried her best to raise her daughter even when Pearl proved to be somewhat of a blame child.Even though Hester did not get to be with Dimmesdale in the end which is a flaw, if you ask me I felt like she lived a effectuate life and got to see her daughter grow up and marry well, which was kind of nice.But I did realize that no one really apprehended Hester for who she was until it was too late. When she needed help most, she was abandoned and only when she offered help to others was she beloved. This mien of suggests that it is important to appreciate the good women in your life before it is too late, which is a pretty good message to give high school kids. I wish my high school teacher had taught me that lesson, because I sure as shooting would have treated Nikki differently when we were first married. Then again, maybe this i s the multifariousness of thing you have to learn by living your life flunk like Dimmesdale did, and I guess like I did too.That scene when Dimmesdale and Hester finally stand together in town for the first time make me wish apart time was over already so I could stand with Nikki in some public place and apologize for macrocosm such a jerk in the past. Then I would narrate her my thoughts about Hawthornes classic, which would make her happy for sure. God, she is going to be so affect that I actually read a book written in old-fashioned English.