Chapters 7&8
     In these chapters Hester and Pear head to the governors house to deliver a pair of gloves she had made for the governor and to find out if the rumors of pearl are true. The rumors being that pearl may be taken away from her for Hester's sake, if she is a demon child, or to be given a better parent then Hester.
     When Chillingworth Dimmesdale and Bellingham enter they make fun of Pearl by calling her a bird. Hester begs Dimmesdale to speak for her and her child so that she can keep Pearl. He calls her both a blessing and a curse. Allowing her to keep her.
   For fear of losing pearl Hester did all she could to keep her, and by going to Dimmesdale(who happens to be the father of pearl) she was allowed to keep this child!
Chapters 9&10
    Chillingworth renamed himself to hide his past from everyone but Hester, who he had sworn to secrecy. He had been captured by native americans and while held captive he learned natural remedies and gained the physician nickname of a leech. Dimmesdale was falling ill and Chillingworth has began to care for him in hopes to reveal the father of pearl.
     Dimmesdale starts to question Chillingworth about a mysterious plant he is using and Chillingworth explains that he found it on an unmarked grave and it may represent someones unconfessed sin. Hester does not live with unburied sin, her mark of the letter A show that and so does pearl. After making this point he begins to question if his illness is from his spiritual health.
     He sneaks in later when Dimmesdale is sleeping and lifts his shirt to view on his chest just what he had expected.
Chapters 11&12
     Dimmesdale dreams about Hester and pearl and how there is a relation between Hesters scarlet letter and the mark on Dimmesdale's chest.
standing on the scaffold dimmesdale clutches his chest in pain and screams and is afraid that people will awaken. And there is a meteor that darkens the sky in the shape of an A and people see it as Angel being that Winthrop has died and ascended to heaven.