Ok me & my friend/partner had to write a short 1 minute 'speech' based off of the Speech "Ain't I a Woman" and one of the books we were reading in class. We chose to based it off of Hester from "The Scarlet Letter". So basically Hester is the one talking.
Ain't I a Person?
If there is one thing I have learned from this life it is that the world is cold place, but people are colder still. One mistake is all it takes for people to turn their backs on you and leave you out to freeze. They kick you out like a dog on the streets, and treat you like one as well.
But ain't I a person? I still desire the warmth of others company and love. Are we sentenced to the life of an outcast or that of eternally damnation merely by one mistake?
Now, the only warmth I feel is the burning shame of the scarlet letter. At times I may find warmth of joy and love within my little Pearl of scarlet. But when I look closely at my Pearl and see the defiance and zealous passion of my past sins, the burning returns ten fold.
Ain't I a person? Should I not be allowed one mistake? Should my one mistake taint the pure white of a beautiful Pearl with sinful scarlet?
Others have sinned a different way, but yet I am here, the only one to be disparaged from my rank in society. Now, my little Pearl, with a sanguine glow, must bear the torture of my sins in cold isolation.
Ain't I a person? One that has the right of a second chance, the right to reach salvation? But of course, this will not happen. Not in this cold unforgiving world of people. I am put into lamentation at the mere thought that my little Pearl and I will live a life of fiery shame and cold, ineffable remoteness.
Ain't I a person...?