Scarlet Letter on Chapters 7 and 8

It is apparent that Hester really does care about Pearl even though Pearl is acting in sometimes disturbing manners with her imagination and the way that she strokes the Scarlet Letter.   The town kind of takes things to this greater extreme to which an offense is just continually punished.  They think that if Peal is this demon then they need to take her away but also that if she isn't they should take Pearl away because of Hester being a bad influence on her.  I think that maybe the A stands for attachment to things that we don't always understand.  Pearl has this attachment to that Scarlet Letter that has caused so much grief for Hester.  At her age  I don't think that she truely understands the significance of that A, but she is attached to this appealing accessory that the town really seems to emphasize and that she grew up knowing.  Then if we think about people and the way that they cling to things that are appealing to them that tend to hurt others.  This could be anywhere from a simple judgemnent of someone to an addiction to something. Not to say that I think Hester is attached to adultery but that the people in the town are attached to identifying her as the scape goat.  Then I think that it is ridiculous for them to sit there and taunt Pearl while judging whether or not she stays with Hester.  That really made me mad.