In this chapter, Hester waits for Dimmesdale in the forest. Pearl tells her mother that the sunshine does not love her. She says that the sun is afraid of what is on her bosom. Pearl says that the sun is far off and that she wants to go see it. She says that since she is just a child, the sun will not shun her. She also says that the sun is not afraid of her because she does not wear anything on her bosom yet. Hester does not want Pearl to ever have to wear anything on hr bosom. The sunshine seems to shun Hester. Pearl wants to know about the "Black Man". She thinks that her mother has written her name in his book and that's why she has to wear the "A". They see someone coming and Pearl asks if it is the Black Man. Hester reassures her that it is just the minister. Pearl says that he might have been visited by the Black Man too because he hold his hand over his heart.
-“Mother,” said little Pearl, “the sunshine does not love you. It runs away and hides itself, because it is afraid of something on your bosom. Now, see! There it is, playing, a good way off. Stand you here, and let me run and catch it. I am but a child. It will not flee from me; for I wear nothing on my bosom yet!”
-This is the passage wear Pearl tells her mother that the sunshine does not love her. She says that if goes a good way off then the sun will stay. Pearl says that since she is just a child then the sun will not hide form her. She also say that she wears nothing on her bosom yet. The use of the word yet is significant
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