Scarlet Letter Alternate Ending
... eyes and determination etched into their features. I knew that no matter how this matter would resolve itself, that I would at least have them to stand with me through this sojourn into shame. The fact angered me to my soul that I never stood by the woman I love and the child I fathered, watching helplessly as they endured the torment I only knew in the recesses of my mind. A sudden realization came upon me. The cause of the sting biting into the fleshes of me and my newly claimed family were the people gawking upon us now. Their insolent faces and critiquing minds were the origin of ceaseless torture. I know now what I must do, but it must be done quickly. “Listen to me Hester. Take Pearl, get your belongings, and go west into the forest.” I whispered to her urgently. Being the woman that she was, there were questions to be answered. “Why must I flee?” She asked me urgently. “It is the only way that I can promise that you will be protected from the horrid happenings soon to come. Now go!” Hester peered into my eyes; an earnest concern was upon her face. “Will you be coming to meet us, wherever we may be?” “I shall indeed.” Climbing down from the scaffold, I saw Hester and Pearl tried to walk unnoticed back to their beachside hut, but an eerie gloom came over the townspeople, who have once again begun to treat Hester and Pearl as outcasts. And now it is my turn. Carefully pulling myself high, I haughtily descen...