I have finally confessed my sin after seven years I was given the strength to confess in front of the entire townspeople.  After meeting in the forest with Hester, I returned back to Chillingworth and my house to tell him I was no longer in need of his medication, when I told him that he seemed a little skeptical but didn’t ask me anything.  I then sat down to rewrite my sermon that I was to present on Election Day.  The day of the elections I felt healthier and more energetic than before although I could feel slight tension from Hester because I did not really acknowledge her before I read my sermon and Pearl could not even recognize me at first.  Also I know mistress Hibbins was trying to brain wash Hester, that women thinks I am the Devil, which I am not!  She is the one that is known around town for being a witch.  While I recited my sermon I saw Hester and Pearl standing at the foot of the scaffold and I knew it was time to confess my sin so I held both of their hands at the top and said:

“ye, that have loved me!—ye, that have deemed me holy!—behold me here, the one sinner of the world!  At last—at last!—I stand upon the spot where, seven years since, I should have stood, here” (200)

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And then I showed the townspeople the scarlet letter that rested upon my chest.  After that Pearl gave me the kiss that she has been holding out to give me for a while now.  Hester had asked me if we were going to spend our after lives together but I told her only God could decide that.  Now as you are reading this I am dead, God has taken me away and sent me some place else but at least I know that I am dead and relieved of my sin.

JaVaun Martin