Which event in chap 1, scarlett letter takes place before the story begins

The event in chap 1, Scarlett Letter that takes place before the story begins is that a crowd gathers outside the door of a prison.

Explanation:

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter,” is about a woman named Hester who has an illegitimate child and is being branded as an adulteress. It also explores the themes of social humiliation, sin, knowledge, human condition, evil’s nature, identity, society, independence of female characters, guilt, empathy, and nature vs society.

In the beginning of the novel, the dreary-looking crowd gathers near the gates of the 17th century prison gates in Boston and watches Hester Prynne. She is a young woman with an infant who emerges from the prison door and goes to a scaffold where she is to be publicly condemned for adultery.

She wears a letter “A” stitched in gold and scarlet. The women pass disparaging comments and the others taunt or stare at her. Hester loses herself in her memories for a while but jolts back to reality again. This is the event that takes place before the novel really begins .

the second option.is correct

the hunger games, written by  suzanne collins, is fiction in the young adult genre, which is not my age group, but i found myself unable to put it down. its combination of nerve-racking tension, thrilling action, and engaging love story kept me up until the wee hours. i was surprised at how completely engrossing the plot was. like  brave new world, this story is set in a future where the government oppresses its people, but the book also borrows ideas from the greek myth of theseus and the minotaur.

divided into 12 districts, ruled by an oppressive government located at the  capitol. katniss everdeen, a 16-year-old girl from district 12, takes her younger sister’s place as one of 24 “tributes” selected every year to participate in the hunger games at the capitol.

while i found this book absolutely enthralling, i was surprised it was aimed at an audience of young adults. it seems extremely intense for anyone younger than 16 or 17. for example, there is a scene where one young tribute is slowly eaten alive by wolf-like creatures all night long, and katniss has to finally throw a weapon at him to end his misery. i found this a little too disturbing when i considered the age of the character.

the intensity of the action was something one would find in a more mature book, but the age of the characters and the simplicity of the prose were aimed at a much younger audience. in addition, this book was written in present tense, which i found annoying, but that’s more of a personal preference than a stylistic fault. it was also edited somewhat poorly, but that rarely distracted from the plot. for example, the author often spoke in sentence fragments to describe how katniss felt, which might have been an attempt to reflect on her thought process, but i found it disorienting to read a lot of really short sentences all together. it would have been better to vary the sentence length on occasion, but the story was still coherently.

overall,  the hunger games  was an excellent, enthralling read that i highly recommend. if it was more clearly marked for older teens, it would have been better, but it was a fantastic book with a wonderfully creative plot.

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