Scarlet Letter Pg. 118

Entry 27:

"So she drew her mother away, skipping, dancing, and frisking fantastically among the hillocks of the dead people, like a creature that had nothing in common with a bygone and buried generation, nor owned herself akin to it."

Pearl not only earlier called Chillingsworth a "Black Man," but also told her mother that he could catch her and she needed to get away. The fact that it says that she has nothing in common with the dead people buried in the graveyard is quite wrong. The burial ground was an escape from the society that people lived in. Pearl had already escaped because of her mother's sin. She danced, and skipped throughout the graveyard because it showed freedom that she has, as to what the dead people have now. She dances for them because they didn't have the opportunity to show their freedom from the town.