Communtiy

Communtiy Joseph K. Hart once said, “No child can escape his community…The life of the community flows about him, foul or pure; he swims in it, goes to sleep in it, and wakes to the new days to find it still about him. He belongs to it’ it nourishes or starves him, or poisons him; it gives him the substance of his life.” Community plays a large role in everyone’s life; Pearl and Hester of The Scarlet Letter, LeAlan Jones, Lloyd Newman, Eric Morse and his killers, of Ghetto Life 101 and Remorse, and the rest of the world. The four aspects of community are neighborhood, peers or friends, family, and faith. Although, as an individual, a person shapes their own identity; nevertheless, the community that the person lives in plays a significant role in their actions, beliefs, and decisions. Hester Prynne’s neighborhood greatly influenced her identity. Although she had already grown up, her personality changed greatly after the labeling of her sin, adultery. Hester’s town was very strict with the punishment of sins and the citizens frowned upon many things. Public displays of a person’s crime were common. Some may think that the one, child, family, community, out, life, faith, think, person, identity, hester, town, people, much, about, pearl, ghetto, friends, very, lealan, just, always, say, peers, things, part, little, hester’s, greatly, affected, neighborhood, influence, going, even, dimmesdale, been, am, sin, school, first, different, city, being, years, upon, lot, large, knew, killed, day