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BY: Nathaniel Hawthorne__**
 * __The Scarlet Letter

The reason I selected this novel was because it looked good and my mom told me she read it and liked it. The information I needed to know before reading the novel was that it is a little confusing. At the beginning of the story, a bunch of Puritans are standing in front of a old wooden prison. The author is telling the story. The setting is important because it is in the seventeenth century, and it couldn’t of happened anytime because back then the beliefs were a lot stronger. Also the types of punishments were different. The first problem faced by the main character is that she has sinned by having a baby with someone who wasn’t her husband. She has to be punished for this sin, they want to kill her. The author gets me to hold on and keep my interest in reading this book because the problem started right away. I picked it up easily and I wanted to know what happened next. For example I would like to know who the father is, and if they do kill her or if she stays alive. Also I want to know what happens to the baby.