Chapter 11 & 12

1. Chapter 11 & 12 Adriana Garcia Cristie Escamilla

2. Chillingworth and Dimmesdale continue to have a hate relationship. Chillingworth enjoys watching Dimmesdale struggle. Along with his struggle, Dimmesdale makes powerful sermons over the topic of sin. Dimmsdale starts to receive visions of his own sins that mentally and physically torture him. Soon he starts to whip himself ,and fasts his diet. His fasting wasn’t due to religious purposes but instead for his own suffrage. Dimmsdale also suffered from insomnia because of the stress and guilt his sins placed on his soul. To relieve his pain he decided to get to the scaffold where Hester was publically shamed of her sin. Chapter 11 Summary

3. Dimmesdale is at the scaffold and screams out of pain. He thinks that the townspeople may have heard him but only those who did thought it was mealy a witch. He spots Reverend Wilsom coming out the place of governor Winthrop's burial. Wilson hadn’t noticed Dimmesdale but Hester and Pearl did. Hester was out so late because she was measuring for Winthrops’ burial robe. Pearl asks if he could stand with her and Hester at noontime but he refuses and asks for another time. A meteor suddenly brightens up the sky and when Dimmedale looks up he spots a red glowing “A”. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-T8cvZTHBc Chapter 12 Summary

4. Chillingworth then appears and takes Dimmesdale to his house because he believed that he was stressing out too much and needed rest for a good sermon in the morning. Continued 

5. how has Dimmesdale suffered throughout these chapters?

6. What kind of relationship does Chillingworth and Dimmesdale have?

7. Why does Dimmesdale go to scaffold at night?

8. What does Dimmsdale’s mother not saying a word to her son mean?