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Pearl is another of the main character of the book. She is really presented for the first time in chapter 6. She is a complicated character and her characteristics are full of meaning. Just her name, Pearl, isn’t casual. Her mother, Hester, give her this name because the child was for her a sort of treasure, the last thing she has in the world, the only reason which she has to live for. Also this name is suited well to the characteristic of the child. Pearl isn’t a common name, it is an element of nature so it symbolizes that the child is outside of the Puritan Society and is part of a magic nature. Indeed the behave of the child, who seems like an elf, agreed with this point.