Entry 40:
"I am but a child. It will not flee from me; for I wear nothing on my bosom yet."
What is Pearl hinting at? She is already a symbol of sin, but has not sinned herself yet. Is she going to commit some ungodly act which causes her to wear a token of shame for the rest of her life? This could be a foreshadow.
She escapes the "A" at the end of the book, but her comment could be a suggestion that everyone sins.
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