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"but, on one side of the portal, and rooted almost at the threshold, was a wild rose-bush, covered, in this month of june, with its delicate gems, which might be imagined to offer their fragrance and fragile beauty to the prisoner as he went in, and to the condemned criminal as he came forth to his doom, in token that the deep heart of nature could pity and be kind to him."

how does this symbol play a role in the beginning of the novel since it grows in front of the prison door? how might it foreshadow what happens to hester based on her situation? use the race method to answer this question making sure to cite evidence from the passage provided.