Task: Text Categorization
Input (English): This novel's opening contains a musing on the fact that people establish a cemetery and a prison as the first two buildings when they build a new colony. In one scene from this novel, a meteor streaming across the sky is interpreted to have a differing meaning by the townsfolk and by a group of three people who see it from atop a scaffold. This novel's main character is unable to stand in the sun while in the forest with her daughter, Pearl. This is, allegorically, because of her affair with Arthur Dimmesdale. For 10 points, name this Nathaniel Hawthorne novel in which Hester Prynne wears the titular badge to signify her adultery.
Output (English): Literature