In this chapter, Pearl makes her own "A". While Hester is talking to Chillingworth, Pearl finds some eelgrass and arranges it to an A the best she could. She put it on her bosom just like her mother's was. Pearl's "A" was bright green instead of scarlet. She then went to show her mother the "A" she had made. She was proud of her "A". Hester asks Pearl if she knows why she has to wear the "A" and Pearl said that she did know. But when asked again she said that she had told all she knew. Pearl wanted to know what the "A" meant and why the minister kept his hand over his heart. She continues to ask about the minister.
-Her final employment was to gather sea-weed, of various kinds, and make herself a scarf, or mantle, and a head-dress, and thus assume the aspect of a little mermaid. She inherited her mother’s gift for devising drapery and costume. As the last touch to her mermaid’s garb, Pearl took some eel-grass, and imitated, as best she could, on her own bosom, the decoration with which she was so familiar on her mother’s. A letter,—the letter A,—but freshly green, instead of scarlet! The child bent her chin upon her breast, and contemplated this device with strange interest; even as if the one only thing for which she had been sent into the world was to make out its hidden import.
-This is the passage when Pearl makes the "A" for herself. It is bright green and made of eelgrass. Pearl was just imitating the "A" that she was use to seeing on her mother's bosom. After Pearl finished making her "A" she p
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