Hopefully This is an Actual Blog and Not Me Talking Completely About Video Games...

Dear Reader,

      I tried something really abstract this week if this makes no sense please let me know. Seriously, I read this over and I don't know if it makes sense...

-Writer

This week in English we talked about many different conflicts that Hester faces in The Scarlet Letter . We annalyzed how this rose bush in the story represents a sign of hope but also represents danger because of the thorns it has. Thinking back to all the other books I have read in the last couple years, I don’t remember their being quite a blunt symbolism in an object. Sure in our summer reading there were some different elements but none of them seemed that they represented hope as an entirety. So than I asked myself where I have I spent more time in media than in books. The answer: video games. So things here are about to get super nerdy. So the last game I have completed that had a decent story was Halo 2 on the Xbox 360.  The whole story circles around a space soldier only known as, Master Chief who through the whole story is beat up, incinerated,(reborn) and blown up by evil alien race that wont let up. Although Chief is silent and has trouble making friends, he is partnered with Cortana , a one of a kind AI (artificial intelligence) that is Chief’s solo companion. The two are very different biologically but on a personal level they are much the same. They both go through tough times and they both only have each other to rely on. In the end Cortana is lost in outer space leaving Chief in complete shambles. He completely looses himself and promises to find Cortana again.

So what’s the point? I believe that the rosebush is parallel to the loss of Cortana. Both the book and the game recognise that neither are lost, and yet both seem to be hopeless no mater how much they try to achieve their goal to reach a better life,  Hester without a sinful life and Master Chief with his companion. Also I believe that the thorns on the rose bush represent more than the hardship that the character will have take to get their but also the sorrow that they feel with loss.  So since these characters loose their normal lives and not being able to fit within society that is how these stories can relate.