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…showed last 75 words of 487 total…fundamentalist Puritan community. This oaken portal is also shrouded with mystery; the outsiders most likely wonder what goes on within the heavily timbered doors, yet no Puritan would even think of setting foot inside the prison walls to find out. Hawthorne chooses his words with care in this first paragraph giving the reader a general feel for what the piece is about, Thereby enabling the reader to foreshadow events within the span of the novel.