By:Nathaniel Hawthorne

Hester Prynne is in nervous excitement. She was brought back to her jail sail and was acting very strange and was going to be seen by a doctor. His name was Roger Chillingworth and he was skilled in christian modes of physical science. When Hester saw him she stood as still as death. The doctor looked at the baby who was in great pain also and told hester to give him this medicine he was offering her. Hester hesitated because she wasnt sure of the medicine so the doctor himself gave the medicine to the baby. Next he checked her and gave her another medicine which she also hesitated in drinking but at the end did. Then Hester realizes that this doctor is no other than her husband, the man who she had not heard of in two years. He was facing her and knew of her sin and said he wouldnt kill her with the medicine he gave her but make her suffer with the scarlet letter she had to wear for the rest of her life. Her husband told her to keep the secret of her lover and well that he would find who it was that made her sin and that he will make him pay.

Time passes and Hester does her time in jail and is now free to face the town and the world. She decided to exclude herself from everyone and go out and live on the outskirts of town in a small thatched cottage. Hester with no friends or family was alone and had to find a way to feed and provide for her daughter. So hester used her skill in needlework so that her and her daughter would never be in need of food or clothes. Soon her daughter became an infant a beautiful little girl. She decided to name her Pearl because of how beautiful she was and because that was all she had. Pearl had the best clothes her mother could make and looked very pretty. Soon pearl was old enought to play with other kids but there was no one around and when they went into town pearl new there was a border and she could not play with the other kids. Pearl was a beautiful child but had a personality of her own.

How do you think Pearl will be when she gets older?

The story starts with Nathaniel Hawthorne writing the story and explaining how he worked as surveyor in Massachusetts.This was for three years back in the 1800 hundreds to be exact from 1846-1849. Their in an old unfinished room was alot of documents dated back two hundred years ago.Their he found a package wrapped in a ribbon and it contained a scarlet rag with a letter A in it like a piece of clothing but who did it belong two and what did it mean. The Letter was worn by a woman named Hester Prynne,she lived in the Massachusetts colony from 1640 to her death in 1690s.

Hester Prynne was the wife of an learned English man and would help people in need and ill. Hester and her husband lived in Amsterdam and then decided to try luck in Massachusetts. Hester had lived in Massachusetts for two years with no word of her husdand. Now with a baby in her arms she is standing in front of a large and angry crowd accusing her of adultery and of being an evil women. Her punishment is to stand for three hours on the platform infront of everyone and then go to prison once released from prison she must wear that scarlet letter A for the rest of her life in shame.Hester refuses to say the father of the babys name.

Do you think that the accusations toward Hester are true??
Who is the father of her baby??

After Blimas grandfather passes away Blima starts noticing how the Nazis signal out the jews and how there power is coming in effect. One day as Blima was coming home from her aunts bakery she is snached from behind. Seeing her mother Blima is picked up by the gestepo, the nazi police and is taken away to the nightmare that just begins. She is taken on a long and cold journey were there is no food and there is people dyeing along the way and no one stops to help. Blima along with others is put in a labor camp somewhere in Poland. The year is 1941 and she becomes a prisoner. They take her clothes and shave her hair also she is no longer a person but a number 44703. Blima has to sow clothes and does this everyday and with harley or no food at all. She meets a lady named Gizella and this lady gives her food and helps her survive. Blima survives three years and then is evacuated to a new camp the date is now January 21,1945. The new journey is longer and with no food and more people dyeing its more difficult to survive. The same jews are put to bury the dead and are killed when there finished.After eleven days and nights they arrive at Bergen-Belsen here Blima is reunited with her sister in law Ruschia. They cry together and think about what happen but are thankful their together. Ruschia is very sick because of the desease caused by the dead bodies.

Its now April 15,1945 there is no food for six days. There in the camp talking to people Blima and Ruschia learn that Blimas brother and Ruschias husband Victor is alive and soon he arrives at the camp. Then later by talking and getting to know more people and also being liberated from the camp Blima is reunited with her brother Kalman. They all stay together and move from place to place trying to live in a new place away from the camp. Blima soon realizes she needs to marry so she wont be alone and wont be with Victor her whole life. By one of Blimas cousins she meets a man named Chiel and decides to get to know him and get married. They marry on April 25,1947 and they set up a home close to some cousins of Chiel. Later Chiel gets a letter that one uncle and aunt he has in America will sponser them so Blima and Chiel can go to America. Blima decides to leave and even though she will be away from Victor and Ruschia she will have a new life away from her pain.

Do you think thats the best thing to do to leave to America and start a new life.? Even though Blima will be leaving the family she has left behind.

This story takes place between the years 1937 and 1947. Blima Weisstuch is a Jewish girl that lives in Poland with her family. This years may not seem important but to the Jewish people those years were when Adolf Hitler was raising to power in Europe. Blima stoped going to school in the eight grade and she works with her aunt in her aunts bakery. Blima 20 years old should be married and with children because thats there tradition but she only has a boyfriend and is not thinking about that.

Blumke as her sister Adele and family call Blima is very a very pretty girl.Adele picks up Blima to go to there brother Victors house to babysit there nieces. Blima remembers that her brother Zalman died when he was just two months old. After Blima and Adele come home and Blima has a serious talk with her mother. She didnt believe that she pretty and has very low self esteem. Her mother of course tells her she is beautiful. Later Blima says that in a few months she will really not care how she looks.

What do you think Blima means with that thought that in a few months it wont matter how she looks?

The Story Of BLIMA A Holocaust Survivor

This story takes place between the years 1937 and 1947. Blima Weisstuch is a Jewish girl that lives in Poland with her family. This years may not seem important but to the Jewish people those years were when Adolf Hitler was raising to power in Europe. Blima stoped going to school in the eight grade and she works with her aunt in her aunts bakery. Blima 20 years old should be married and with children because thats there tradition but she only has a boyfriend and is not thinking about that. Blumke as her sister Adele and family call Blima is very a very pretty girl.

Adele picks up Blima to go to there brother Victors house to babysit there nieces. Blima remembers that her brother Zalman died when he was just two months old. After Blima and Adele come home and Blima has a serious talk with her mother. She didnt believe that she pretty and has very low self esteem. Her mother of course tells her she is beautiful. Later Blima says that in a few months she will really not care how she looks.

What do you think Blima means with that thought that in a few months it wont matter how she looks?