In chapter ten, Chillingworth grows suspicious of Dimmesdale. He tries to find out Dimmesdale history but gets nothing out of him. All of his attention is devoted to Dimmesdale. If he is not caring for Dimmesdale, then he is out finding plants and herbs for him. Dimmesdale asks Chillingworth about a plant that he brought in. It was a dark plant and it looked unusual. Chillingworth said that he found it on an unmarked grave and it meant that that person had been buried with unspoken sin. He says the Hester wears her sin on her bosom for everyone to see. They hear Pearl and Hester outside and when Pearl notices the two men she pulls her mother away saying that Chillingworth has already got Dimmesdale and the she doesn't want him to get them too. 
   -“Even in the grave-yard, here at hand,” answered the physician, continuing his employment. “They are new to me. I found them growing on a grave, which bore no tombstone, nor other memorial of the dead man, save these ugly weeds that have taken upon themselves to keep him in remembrance. They grew out of his heart, and typify, it may be, some hideous secret that was buried with him, and which he had done better to confess during his lifetime.
   -This passage is when Chillingworth explains to Dimmesdale where he got the dark plant. Chillingworth states that if the man had confessed his sin instead of being buried with it, he would have been better off. 

In chapter nine, Dimmesdale falls ill. Dimmesdale has been feel ill lately and often clutches his chest as if his heart hurt. Chillingworth moves in with Dimmesdale so that he may cure Dimmesdale. Little is known about Chillingwoth's past. He is a great physician because he has European training and he also has natural ways to cure people. The natural remedies come from him being captured by the Indians. At first, the townspeople love having Chillingworth around. After a while of being in the town, Chillingworth starts looking more and more hateful. The town is starting to think that Chillingworth is the Devil coming for Dimmesdale's soul. A method that became popular was called "the leech." It was when the doctors used leeches to drain blood from their patients and it seemed to work on most patients. 
     -  His form grew emaciated; his voice, though still rich and sweet, had a certain melancholy prophecy of decay in it; he was often observed, on any slight alarm or other sudden accident, to put his hand over his heart, with first a flush and then a paleness, indicative of pain.

In chapter eight, Hester and Pearl are still at the governors house. Bellingham, Chillingworth, Dimmesdale, and Wilson enter the room and start making fun of Pearl. They then notice that Hester is also in the room. The men then ask her  why she should be able to keep Pearl and she says that she would be able to teach Pearl the lesson she has learned through shame. Wilson questions Pearl on her religious knowledge and he hates that Pearl seems to dislike him. Pearl refuses to answer any of Wilson's questions. Hester begs Dimmesdale to help her keep Pearl. The men decide not to separate the mother and daughter. Hester reminded the men that God sent Pearl to be a blessing and a curse. Chillingworth wants to reopen the investigation and find out who the father of Pearl is, but the other men don't allow him to do so. While Hester and Pearl are leaving the mansion, Mistress Hibbins asks Hester is she wants to come to the witches' gathering and Hester refuses saying that if Pearl had been taken away she would have come. Pearl seems to like Dimmesdale. 
     - Speak thou, the child’s own mother! Were it not, thinkest thou, for thy little one’s temporal and eternal welfare, that she be taken out of thy charge, and clad soberly, and disciplined strictly, and instructed in the truths of Heaven and earth? What canst thou do for the child, in this kind?”
        -This passage is when the men were asking Hester why she should be able to keep Pearl. They are asking her what good can you do for the child. Hester says that she can teach her the lesson that she learned through shame. 

In chapter seven, Hester and Pearl go to governor Bellingham's mansion. Hester has two reasons for going to the governors house. The first reason is to deliver some gloves that she has made for the governor. This is also emphasizing Hester's great needlework because the governor wears it. The second reason Hester went to the governors house was to ask about a rumor she has heard of Pearl being taken from her. The townspeople has come to suspect that Pearl is a demon-child. They think that if she is a demon-child then she should be taken away for the safety of Hester. If she is not a demon-child, the townspeople think that Pearl should be taken and put into a better home than that of Hester. They think that Hester is not fit to raise a child. In the governors mansion, there is an armor suit. Pearl is mesmerized by this and goes to look at her reflection. Hester also sees her reflection in the armor and is horrified to find that the scarlet "A" is dominate in the reflection. 
    -Another and far more important reason than the delivery of a pair of embroidered gloves impelled Hester, at this time, to seek an interview with a personage of so much power and activity in the affairs of the settlement. It had reached her ears, that there was a design on the part of some of the leading inhabitants, cherishing the more rigid order of principles in religion and government, to deprive her of her child. On the supposition that Pearl, as already hinted, was of demon origin, these good people not unreasonably argued that a Christian interest in the mother’s soul required them to remove such a stumbling-block from her path. If the child, on the other hand, were really capable of moral and religious growth, and possessed the elements of ultimate salvation, then, surely, it would enjoy all the fairer prospect of these advantages by being transferred to wiser and better guardianship than Hester Prynne’s.
   -This passage is saying that the most important reason Hester went to the governors house was to find out the answer to the rumor she had heard. 

This chapter is all about Pearl. She has grown up since we last saw her. Hester often worries about her because she has inherited a lot of Hester's attributes. Hester loves her child but worries. Pearl is always making mischief and this is one of the main reasons Hester is concerned for her daughter. The town knows that Pearl is the product of a sin and they say that she should not be associating with other children. Pearl is aware of the difference between her and the other children of the town. Since Hester and Pearl are always together, Pearl is also the victim of the cruelty of the townspeople. When Hester tries to teach about God,Pearl insisted that she did not have a Heavenly Father. 
    -We have as yet hardly spoken of the infant; that little creature, whose innocent life had sprung, by the inscrutable decree of Providence, a lovely and immortal flower, out of the rank luxuriance of a guilty passion. 
  -This passage is saying that we really haven't seen much of Pearl except when she was on the scaffold with her mother. This is saying that Pearl was an innocent life that has sprung out of a guilty passion. The narrator is emphasizing Pearls innocence and Hester's guilt.  

Chapter five is about Hester's great needlework. She is a great seamstress. This is how she supports herself and her daughter. Hester makes garments for most of the town, except brides. It is seen as inappropriate for a bride to be married in a gown made by Hester Prynne. In this chapter, Hester is released from prison. She is allowed to leave Boston, but chooses not to. She lives in a house on the outskirts of town and she often feels lonely. She does a lot of charity work but this is also a kind punishment because the people she is helping often make fun of her. She feels that the work she is doing does not her her full potential of work. 
    
      -But it is not recorded that, in a single instance, her skill was called in aid to embroider the white veil which was to cover the pure blushes of a bride. The exception indicated the ever relentless vigor with which society frowned upon her sin.
  - This passage is saying that even though Hester was a great seamstress and the governor and military men wore her garments, she was not allowed to make a wedding dress. A bride is supposed to be pure and since Hester wasn't, it was deemed inappropriate to wear a wedding dress made by her. 

In chapter four, Hester and her husband come face to face. Hester had to go back to the prison after standing on the scaffold. Her husband came to prison because she was in need medical attention. The jailer called a doctor to come help her. The doctor was well-trained and highly respected. The doctor was her husband. Her husband tried to give her a potion but she refused because she thought that he might be trying to poison her. He said that he would not have poisoned her because he was set on revenge. He also wants Hester to keep his identity a secret. 

Chapter two is about Hester, holding an infant, go up onto the scaffold. Everybody in the town is here and they are all judging her because she has to stand on the scaffold. This is part of her punishment. She also has to wear an "A" on her bosom at all times. This is showing that she has committed adultery. The "A" was nicely done. It was a big red "A" with a gold outline. All the woman in the crowd are talking about her and the children are making fun of her. She starts thinking about her life before this. We learn that she was married to a man but we do not know who that man is. 
    -The young woman was tall, with a figure of perfect elegance on a large scale. She had dark and abundant hair, so glossy that it threw off the sunshine with a gleam, and a face which, besides being beautiful from regularity of feature and richness of complexion, had the impressiveness belonging to a marked brow and deep black eyes.

Chapter one is all about the prison. Not a lot happens but we see the setting and are set up for the rest of the novel. The prison seems to be really important because the relatively new colony had the prison. The heavy oak doors studded with iron spikes show us that they were very serious about keeping people in the prison. There was also the rose bush at the prison. It was unusual for the rose bush to be there since the ground was infertile. 
    "A throng of bearded men in sad-colored garments and gray, steeple-crowned hats, intermixed with women, some wearing hoods, others bareheaded, was assembled in front of a wooden edifice, the door of which was heavily timbered with oak and studded with iron spikes. 
     -This passage is saying that everybody in the town was gathered at the prison. It was a big deal when somebody was put in prison or allowed out. All of the town was there to witness it.