Chapter 1

This chapter begins outside the county prison with
no reasonably significant events. This piece of the novel creates a
since of dread and despair with the diction that Hawthorne uses to describe the 
group of men with their uncivilized looks and dull coloration of the surroundings.
Through all these depressing images Hawthorne throws the reader a shimmering
beam of  light in the form of a rose bush. The rose bush is life within
this hollowed place that lived through the evil around it. Hawthorne used a tone
of such despair that he personified gloom and depression with each and every word. He
showed us that within Puritan times homes were thought to be built last and
that a cemetery needed to be implemented first along with a church.