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- 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.
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