My choice of free read for this quarter is The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. So far, I have made several connections to what we are learning in class, which is Puritanism. We have learned about what Puritans believed, how God interacted with their daily lives, some authors during the Puritan period, and also themes that occurred in Puritan writing.
Some things related to Puritanism I found includes the statement that, "religion and law were almost identical," and also the mention of Anne Hutchinson who "entered the prison-door". Because the Puritan belief was so closely related to God, that there was not a clear line between religion and the law, which is shown in The Scarlet Letter. Anne Hutchinson was a woman who challenged the Puritan beliefs and was banished because of it, hence the prison door that was mentioned. These were just a few examples of the connection between Puritanism and my book that I have been able to identify so far.
