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"Come away, or yonder old Black Man will catch you! He hath got hold of the minister already. Come away, mother, or he will catch you! But he cannot catch little Pearl!"
You can go a few places with this. It's almost as if Pearl is taunting Hester. Like I said in DJ 15, Pearl brought Chillingworth to Hester, and now she is telling her that she must run? What's up with that? Now, branching off that thought, I wonder if Pearl is thinking, "Maybe I can get a point across here: don't listen to me, and be strong." Hester and Dimmesdale had an equal part in bringing Pearl into the world and therefore should come clean and take all the responsibility for it.
Or perhaps she wants both Hester and Dimmesdale to be caught but the BLACK man. They'd, at least, be together.
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