In chapter twelve, Dimmesdale goes up on the scaffold. It is night time and nobody can see him up on the scaffold. Dimmesdale starts laughing and it is returned by Pearl's laugh. Hester and Pearl join Dimmesdale on the scaffold. The three hold hands and Pearl asks her father if he will stand on the scaffold with them tomorrow. Pearl wants everyone to know who her father is, but Dimmesdale refuses to stand up there with her. Dimmesdale says that he will stand up therewith her and Hester another time and Pearl pushes him to find out when. Dimmesdale tells her that they will stand together on the great judgement day. Dimmesdale then asks Hester who Chillingworth really is but since Hester is sworn to secrecy, she can't tell him. Then a meteor lights up the night. It is in the shape of an "A" and the town does not associate this to Hester but rather Winthrop. They say the "A" means "Angel" and that it's a sign that he made it to heaven. Chillingworth sees the three on the scaffold and comes to get DImmesdale down. The next day, a black glove is returned to Dimmesdale. The church says that Satan must have placed the glove on the scaffold
-She silently ascended the steps, and stood on the platform, holding little Pearl by the hand. The minister felt for the child’s other hand, and took it. The moment that he did so, there came what seemed a tumultuous rush of new life, other life than his own, pouring like a torrent into his heart, and hurrying through all his veins, as if the mother and the child were communicating their vital warmth to his half-torpid system. The three formed an electric chain.
-This passage is when the three were up on the scaffold together. The three were holding hands and they formed an electric chain. They were finally together as a family, even though no one
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