I don't know if it's just me who noticed this, but does anyone else find it sort of funny that the last book we read was by Nathaniel Hawthorne and in the book we just read, The Crucible, there was a judge named Hathorne, who just happens to be his relative? If I was related to one of those judges, I woud've changed my name too. Personally, hands down this is the best book I've read all summer. This is a book that I love to hate, it drives me crazy how easy they are to place blame! For example, Mrs. Putman she blames her stillborn'son Rebecca saying she murdered her children. But out of all of the accusers, the one I hated the most would have to be Parris' niece Abigail. She was a vindictive little witch, no pun intended. Abigail enjoyed watching others suffer on her behalf, and I was floored when they still took her word to be true even when Parris made it clear at the end that she robbed him blind and left! Although there is a character in this book who I positively hate, there is not a character that I favor the most. If anything it would have to be both the Proctors. They stood strong til the end, and I admire them both deeply.

The girl who started it all out technically was Parris' slave Tituba. In the play it says that she is from Barbados, but actually her ethnicity is quite debatable, some believe her to be Indian, others actually think she was Spanish. Also another thing is the real Sarah Good never admitted to being a witch. I think that one of the greatest themes of this book is just human nature. Think about today, most people would rather hear a juicy rumor then the truth which is very plain and boring, which is what happened back then. Turn on your TV, politicians today are trying to ruin each others names by saying untrue things about each other to try to gain our votes. In the play, one man claimed a women practiced witch craft only for the fact that years before he bought a pig from her and died. The Putmans did it out of jealousy of Rebecca's good fortune with her children and their want to get more land.

It is disgusting, the Salem Witch Trials. So many people died. And for what? Their neighbors ignorance, their belief that everything is the Devil's doing. Parris annoyed me so much in the third act, he was like chicken little, "The sky is falling, the sky is falling!" "He's come to corrupt the court! He's come to corrupt the court!" I felt like reaching into the play and duct taping his mouth shut, just like the Girls. How can you call mocking someone witch craft? If that is witch craft then everyone has practiced witch craft at like the age five. Their claims, there was no substantial evidence! No one had a fair trial, they believed what they wanted to believe. The sad thing is, things like this has happened many times in history, ever heard of a little thing called The Holocaust? It is so sad how many poor souls were tortured, but the people who condemned them most likely got what they deserved. Sarah Wood's words "God will give you blood to drink" to the man who condemned her and guess what? God gave him blood to drink.