Journal Entry 6

Pages 117-139

5 comments

• I was right, witches that confessed were no longer interest to the accusers.
• Every time there is a court case, the witch was always seen as the puppet master in the courtroom amongst the accusers.
• This accusations of witchery pushed to the point that nobody knew who was who anymore. nobody could tell who was a witch and who was a saint.
• A new minister is approaching the trial to see if he could get the witch to confess.
• To me the Devil's seem to attack the followers rather than the popes, and ministers of salem village.

4 Questions

• Why they are saying that he the devil is a Black man?
• Was the judge trying to push Rebecca into telling them that she is a witch?
• How did the minister's wife and daughter die?
• Why arent't the ministers having fits?

3 Literary Techniques

• Simile- " Sounding a bit like John Goodwin he urged his former congregation to understand they had brough these ills on themselves ( 120)"
• Personifcation- " Corruption, rot, and evil had pentrated everywhere( 121)"
• Man vs Man- " Accusers began to file complaints against sarah"

2 Vocabulary Words

• Consternation- A state of paralyzing dismay
• Ineffectual-powerless

1 sentence Summary

The minister tries t unravel the mysteriy of the tormented Rebecca Nurse inside the courtroom.

Journal Entry 5

Pages 94-116

5 comments

• To me based on the continued apperance of the three accused women of being witches i am starting to believe that they are truely witches.
• It seems to me that the people of the town were trying to find small traits about martha in order to try and concede her to be a s a witch.
• It seems like Ann Jr. was behind all these accusations being brought up aginst to these innocent people.
• The obvious way of being a witch was that there was always a yellow bird that was sucking between the fingers of the witch.
• The nine witches were coming forth into church.

4 Questions

• Could the belief of being able to contact god Dirctly have pushed them to act the way they did when they did get closer to him?
• How were that people in church having fits from demons inside the house of god?
• Where were these other Marthas coming from that were appearing in church?
• Why were all the other nine witches named Martha?

3 Literary Techniques

• simile- " god spoke as thunder" ( 95).
• personification- " as if fairy tales stepped out of the pages" ( 94).
• Man vs. Man " abigail began to struggle with the shadow of Rebecca Nurse" (99).

2 Vocabulary Words

• Vile - wretchedly bad( 96).
• Gloated- A feeling of great, often malicious, pleasure or self-satisfaction (97).

1 Sentence

• Ann Putnam becomes the center of every trial where she is tormented, where she starts accusations against Martha Corey for being a witch

Journal Entry 4

Pages 71-93


5 Comments

• The idea of not following the Puritain decorum points to Sarah Goodman, and Sarah Osbourne as being witches.
• Every time the supposed witch Sarah Goodman said she didn't do no evil, it would push the girls into frenzies.
• I think that the accusers were purposly acting like they were being tormented only so they could seal the fate of the accused witches.
• Ann Putnam always was the tormented everytime there was a case against a witch.
• Tituba's life was spared possibly to keep using her to find the other witches mentioned in the devil's bible.

4 Questions

• Who was the Mistress that called Tituba into the room before she signed with the devil?
• Why were they only targeting the important families of Salem Village?
• Why they are questioning who is the leader if they know the devil is behind it all?
• Why was Tituba's Life Spared if she was a witch? weren't all suspected witches executed?

3 Literary Techniques

• Simile- " hairy creature that walked on two legs like a man"( 85)
• Simile - " a head like a woman" (85)
• Metaphor-" she was speaking in the form of visions and dreams"

2 Vocabulary Words

• Apparition( pg 92)- a supernatural appearance of a person or thing,
• Guise( 82) - general external appearance

1 Sentence

• Tituba is tried as a witch and is sent to prision but with no sentence, until people finally forget about her.

Journal Entry 3

Pages 48-70

5 Comments

• The ministers seen a devotion to commerce as a threat to religion.
• new rules were being enforced, these rules included: limiting what kinds of clothes people could wear, and who could join the congregation.
• But there was a group that seemed to live by different standards, such them being able to wear lavish clothing, building fine homes, and loosining rules for church members.
• Parris the new minister of the church of salem village preaches about one theme; that the clash between good people banding togther in a christian community and liars who pretended to be good but schemed and plotted for their own ends.
• Ironic that he preaches this because he only became the minister of Salem village after he failed at just being the kind of merchant who was prospering in salem town. which is the enemy to Salem Village.

4 Questions

• Since the putnams were so "easily" able to sense evil, why didn't they sense the evil in Paris who was and still is a enemy, that is preaching them the word?
• what do they mean when she died with a "diabolical molestation"?
• why did abigail the neice disappear from records after tampering with satanic tools?
• how is it so that only abigail suddenly "dies" from witchcraft, and eveyone else who has done so has slowly recovered?

3 Literary Techiniques

• Society Vs. Society: (Page 49) " shook in every squabble that pitted the Putnams against the Porters".
• Personification (Page 52) " The church was created in order to serve the needs of the people"
• Simile: (Page 59) " till there came up a coffin, that is a a specter in likness of a coffin"

2 Vocabulary Words

• wracked (Page 60): To be wrecked
• astute( page 49):of keen penetration or discernment

1 Sentence Summary

• There is a major conflict between the teachings of the Porters and Putnams.