The Scarlet Letter 2

LIVING IN PRISON

How difficult it is for a mother to give birth being in prison. Many women that are arrested and pregnant have the bad experience of giving birth, maybe not in prison, but later they have to go back to prison with their child. If it is difficult for them, mothers, I imagine how difficult it is for a kid to grow up in prison.

This was shown in a part of The Scarlet Letter, when it says that little Pearl was used to see the grey walls of the prison. How hard would have been if she had to live her entire life in prison. Although, even harder seems to be the daugther of a sinner and the product of a sin. She lived, although she was innocent, with the pressure of being pointed as Hester Prynne’s daugther. She had no father and that, of course, was not accepted in the Puritan Society.

Nowadays, it is pretty much the same. Kids are being born on prisons and living there. It must be really hard to grow up in the prison knowing that you are only allowed to go out when you go to school. Furthermore, it must be extremely hard not being able to go out with your mom on a sunny Sunday afternoon. Sometimes, it is much better to part with a child if this is the life he will get.

Being in prison it is extremely difficult for an adult, for a kid is devastating.