Wednesday

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

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