Pearl Hart: A Female Outlaw

On July 6th, 1979, Kevin Hart, world renown comedian and actor, was born. He was born to two wonderful parents named Nancy Hart (Mother) and Henry Witherspoon (Father). He was the youngest of two boys. They were mainly raised by their mother, acting as a single parent as a result of Henry Witherspoon’s problems with a drug addiction and the law.

She did not find the west as glamorous as she hoped it would be. She worked as a cafe cook to supplement her income. Even though the west wasn’t all glitz and glam, she stayed, and eventually had her abusive husband caught up with her. He begged Pearl to come back with him after promising to get a real job, and she decided to go and the couple reunited. The couple gave birth to their daughter, and had an on and off relationship.

Jody’s pride, materialism, and urge to dominant had turned him into a cold, bitter old man that was on his dying bed with kidney problems [Page 85]. This was the only time Janie had to tell him about the independence she had longed for during their marriage [Page 85]. She knows that Jody was a good husband in the aspects that he provided for her and had power. These were the things that Nanny Crawford had wanted for her. However, Janie the things she wanted which were love and independence in love. She also gained wisdom from her and Joe’s long time together. Janie did not have to leave Jody to get out of this marriage, because he died immediately after she told him all the problems she felt had been in their marriage.

All things considered, Pearl is only accustomed to her mother, Hester Prynne. Pearl won’t be able to associate with anyone. “The old minister seated himself in an arm–chair and made an effort to draw Pearl betwixt his knees. But the child, unaccustomed to the touch or familiarity of any but her mother, escaped through the open window, and stood on the upper step,...”(Hawthorne 89) This proves that Pearl used to anyone but her mother. Pearl will be better off with Hester.

One of Pearl’s many trials is the torment from her peers and elders simply for being the daughter of an adulteress, which she was completely out of control of. Peers bullying her is not uncommon throughout the story, “the little Puritans… scorned them [Pearl] in their hearts, and not infrequently reviled them with their tongues”(Hawthorne, 109). Their lack of respect towards her, and willingness to act upon those feelings puts Pearl in constant danger of harassment and shame from every child around her. However, peer harassment is not the only danger Pearl has to worry about, adults are quick to shame her as well, “the talk of neighboring townspeople… had given out that poor little Pearl was a demon offspring” (Hawthorne, 114). While it’s not uncommon for someone to be bullied by a peer, the degradation forced on her by adults was something Pearl had to deal with everyday, on top of her peers. Interactions that should have been benign and helped her feel normal only tore her down.

In 1967, when David was only fourteen, Pearl was taken by cancer. Moving into a new home with two instead of three people, David grew more mentally unstable. He gained an unhealthy sense of self-criticism, and was convinced that the whole world was plotting

On May 22, 1943, Betty Williams became a face in this world. She was born in Belfast, which is located in Northern Ireland. Williams was part of a

At the first of Pearl’s role in the story, it appears as though someone so grounded in her beliefs, spiritual and mental, would never be dynamic in

In addition to the border patrol increasing in fear of invasion of illegal immigrants, invasion also came with reproduction as discussed briefly earlier. As discussed in Governing Immigration Through Crime (2004), “women were featured on the covers of magazines which suggested invasion as well but not invasion as described with male migrant worker but invasion that is more insidious, the one that includes the capacity of the invaders to reproduce themselves. These women are carrying futures of “illegal immigrants” into U.S. territory” (Dowling & Inda, 2013). However, the men and women in The Devil’s Highway were asked to stop reproducing because the food was harder to come by and certain necessities in order to survive were becoming expensive.

She was the only one who understood. She listened without judgement, held her when she cried, and was there for her when she was at her loneliest. It was hard without her being there. She felt as if she had no one to talk to. Steven was too young, Garnet was not the talking type, and Pearl? Well, they just didn't get along. Actually never got along. She was the reject gem; the product of a Homeworld experiment that none of the "real" gems wanted to speak of. It was almost sacrilegious.

     The plan for Janie’s future begins with her lack of having real parents. Hurston builds up a foundation for Janie that is bound to fall like a Roman Empire. Janie’s grandmother, whom she refers to as “Nanny” takes the position as Janie’s guardian. The problem begins here for Janie because her Nanny not only spoils her, but also makes life choices for her. Nanny is old, and she only wants the best for her grandchild, for she knows that the world is a cruel place. Nanny makes the mistake of not allowing Janie to learn anything on her own. When Janie was sixteen years old, Nanny wanted to see her get married. Although Janie argued at first, Nanny insisted that Janie get married. “’Yeah, Janie, youse got yo’ womanhood on yuh… Ah wants to see you married right away.’” (Page 12). Janie was not given a choice in this decision. Her Nanny even had a suitor picked out for her. Janie told herself that she would try to make the best of the situation and attempt to find love in her marriage to Logan Killicks. But, as time went by, Janie realized that she still did not have any feelings of what she had considered to be love in her husband.

In the beginning Pearl is living with her mother, father, thirteen year old sister Lexie, and Bitey the cat in New York City. Pearl was entering fifth

It was an unspoken rule that any man whose wife lived with him on the frontier was considered rude if he declined to bring her to social functions so she could dance with the other men. (Jan Mackell Collins from her article in True West magazine, “Soiled Doves.”)

In The Scarlet Letter, Pearl is often regarded as a symbol to that of the suffering of Hester Prynne and the shamed Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale but Pearls significance is more than just symbolizing the sin committed by her parents. She in many ways represents the innocence that the puritan belief is regressing itself to have. Hawthorne constructs Pearl as an evolving symbol for Hester and Dimmsdale and her progression as a character is shown through that of the actions set forth by these characters. Since the inception of the act of adultery by Hester and Dimmesdale, Pearl is developed by sin but she is not conformed to sin and as a result symbolizing a release of sin. She is essentially the road from childhood to adulthood, innocence to innocence lost to finally understanding and accepting the card that we are all delved with and that’s life after sin.

The Writer for this movie added a long romantic story scene into it, but this movie did show what happen on Pearl