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"God gave her into my keeping!" repeated Hester Prynne, raising her voice almost to a shriek. "I will not give her up! "

In this speech Hester defends her cause, the guard of her child, with a solemn tone. Here we can find two important elements. The first is the natural love that ties a mother with a daughter. Hester doesn’t like Pearl much, and sometimes she doesn’t understand her behave and disagree with her minds. But however she is her mother and, like all the mothers, she can’t imagine that her child is brought away from her. The second element is the appeal to the God’s providence. It’s God that gave her the child to punish her but at the same time, like her only joy. They can’t take away Pearl from her because they can’t go against God voluntary.