book review: the scarlet letter

It always seems exciting to me to read a classic. And then you get into it and you think, “Why am I reading this?” There are often big words, they talk different than we do now, their culture is different, and it just seems so foreign.

So what do we learn from reading classics?

Well as far as this book goes, you learn some history! This book was densely immersed in Puritan society where they had such strict moral codes. I think there are some things that our current society could learn from having any sense of morality.

This book also taught a lot about consequences of choices and how we must either suffer for bad choices or benefit from good choices. Either way we have to accept the reality of our current situation.

We didn’t get to know a lot of the redemption that happened, but I think we decided that this book may not be beneficial to high school students but it is worth reading at some point.

For some reason, I still am interested in reading classics just for the fact of saying I’ve done so haha but also because if you accept them for what they are then you really can connect to tales and characters of the last.

People are just people. And whether you live in 2018 or 1836 you still have thoughts and feelings and talents and relationships. And that is the beauty of writing. Stories that last for hundreds or thousands of years just purely because of the human existence and our desire to connect.