The Novel Feast

Hester Prynn
By: Kaylie Gore
Appetizer:
Hester Prinn
Strong, kind, proud, humble
Related to Pearl
Cares deeply about her daughter
Who feels isolated
Who needs to reveal the truth
Who gives love and care
Who fears her ex-husband
Who would like to see others of her kind
socially accepted
Resident of Massachusetts
Entrée: Nose

(Most Important)
Right Ear Left Ear

Right Bicep
Left Bicep
Left Side Right Side

Left Arm Right arm

Explanations on Next Slide

 Entrée (Most Important) explained:
Left Side
• Left Eye: Character sees townspeople being
discriminant and over-bearing, isolating her for a
crime that wasn't meant to be a crime
• Left Ear: Character hears snide remarks and rude
comments made behind upheld hands and
behind closed doors (2nd chapter)
• Left side of heart: The character felt ashamed and
emotionally hurt (1st half of story)
• Left arm: Character committed adultery without
knowing it was adultery (sorta), then allowed
herself to be isolated (Whole story)
• Left Bicep: Her weaknesses are her sin and shame
(Whole story)
Right Side
• Right Eye: Character wants to see the townspeople
forgiving her and accepting her back into their society
(2nd half of story)
• Right Ear: Character wants to hear people kindly
speaking to her and with each other (whole story)
• Right side of heart: The character wants to feel accepted
and loved for who she really is (Whole story)
• Right arm: Character wanted to be with her new-found
lover, so that she, her daughter, and the man could be
the family that they wanted to be (whole story,
especially after they met Dimmesdale in he woods)
• Right bicep: Her strengths are her inner strength, her
defiance of convention, her honesty, and her
compassion (whole story)

Nose: The character was headed into total isolation and shame (when moves to outskirts of town)
Head With Thought Bubble to the Right: Character keeps her fellow adulterer to herself and refuses to tell who he is
(most of story)
 Rest of Entrée explained:
Left Right
• Head with thought bubble to left: She • Leg: She went to the far end of the town in
believes slightly in puritan beliefs but isolation
not as strictly as everyone else • Foot: Her daughter kept her grounded
along with her lovers presence
• Leg: She wanted to run to Europe with
her daughter and lover
• Foot: She faced the obstacles of
prejudice and matrimonial hardships

- Center of heart: What made Hester herself was the fact that she knew what she was
doing and she didn’t let everybody else's opinions change the way she ran her life.
- Mouth dialogue bubble 1: She said most things that came to her mind, she wasn’t
rude but she had a certain hate for prejudice
- Mouth dialogue bubble 2: She wanted to tell everybody that she was really a good
person and that her act of adultry was never intended as such but of one of
genuine love.
Sweet Side Dish: Hot Hershey
Hester Fudge
Ingredients:
• ½ cup beauty
• 2 cups 2 percent shame
• 4 cups love
• 1 teaspoon sin
• 1 teaspoon charity
• 1 teaspoon regret
• ½ to 1 cup pride, chopped

Bring the beauty, shame, love and sin to a boil until it

reaches soft ball stage. Remove from heat and put the
pan in a sink with cold water in it. While in the cold
water, add the charity and regret. Combine well and add
pride. Put into a round 8- or 9-inch round buttered cake
pan and let set.

Preparation time: 11 years

Serves: 1 Puritan town
Results: 1 proud, good-hearted, independent woman
 Dessert:
The following link is how I, Mrs. Hester
Prynn, keep up with the world. Blogging
is, in my opinion, an amazing way to
express my feelings and talk about all the
juicy events that have happened to me.
The posts are placed by the most recent
first, so you may need to scroll to the
bottom of the page and go to the very
first page. Hope you enjoy!!
~ Mrs. Hester Prynn (Hesters Life)
https://hesterslife.edublogs.org/