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In chapter 7 we see a perfect exhibition of the strange attitude of Pearl. When she and Hester go downtown for some businesses, some children that are playing in the street start to joke them. While Hester generally endures situation like that, closing her sadness inside and showing indifferent, Pearl has to much pride and brave to do that. She starts to run against the other children shouting to them to frighten them. But the way she does that isn’t the normal way a child shows his angry. “She resembled, in her fierce pursuit of them, an infant pestilence, the scarlet fever, or some such half-fledged angel of judgment, whose mission was to punish the sins of the rising generation.” She seems a defender of the justice, that is very contradictory because she is the living symbol of a big “injustice”.