Class Work

Reverend Parris- middle aged father, overbearing, condescending: "He believed he was being persecuted wherever he went... he felt insulted if someone rose to shut the door without first asking his permission."

Betty Parris- daughter, sick: "Reverend Parris... his daughter, Betty Parris, aged ten, lying in bed, inert."

Martha Corey- adulterous, sketchy: "It suddenly beccam possible for a man to say that Martha Corey had come into his bedroom at night, and that, while his wife was sleeping at his side, Martha laid herself down on his chest and "nearly suffocated him."

Tituba- caring, slave, concerned, cautious: "She enters as one does who can no longer bear to be barred from the sight of her beloved, but she is also very frightened because her slave sense has warned her that, as always, trouble in this house eventually lands on her back."

Info:

The story takes place in Salem Massachusetts during the salem witch trials. This story is based off a true story but most of the details that provided by this book are fiction. The general plot idea is borrowed from historical events but the story itself is partly taken from letters and trial records and the large remainder from the authors imagination.

Basically we know that the general plot of story would follow what we knew happened during the trials. But the dialogues and the interactions that occur among the characters of the book will be solely the creation of the author and whatever he thought might have happened during the trial will be how the story is written.