6. How much is Abigail to blame for the events that took place? Is she a victim of her society in The Crucible? What events in her past and present influence her behavior? Can she excused or pardoned because outside forces “made” her the way she is? Why or why not?

The witch trials in Salem occurred because of Abigail an it is her fault. She started something she could not finish and by starting it killed many innocent people and ruined many reputations. Abigail is at blame because she was the one who is basically the "psycho girlfriend" who is obsessed with her ex. But because she is desperately in love with John Proctor, she is willing to do anything to have him all to herself. Just like how she drank a chicken blood charm to kill Elizabeth, which is against her religion. She is willing to go against her religion to satisfy her desperation for John. But obviously John does not want this because he knows his affair with her was a mistake. She is not the victim in the crucible. She is the person who caused all the chaos to occur. She should be put to blame because although she did have a rough past she should have asked for help. But during this time period asking for help would only be asked from the Lord. But Abigail is clearly not the victim in this play. She is the culprit in the play. The most likely thing to have influenced her from the past is her parents' murders. By having her parents murdered so violently and right in front of her must have seriously scarred her for life. She must have been really affected by this. Also when she had no one to take her in Elizabeth and John took her in as their slave. After being kicked out of their home because of the affair she must have been more hurt because she did not have anywhere to really go. Although she has been through a lot she is still at fault. She cannot be not at fault or pardoned because she should have gotten help and she should have been a good Puritan and prayed about the struggle she was going through.

2. As the action heats up, some of the characters in The Crucible stay the same, but a few of them change. Write a detailed character study on one of the play’s dynamic characters who undergoes some sort of change from the beginning of the play to the end.

In The Crucible, Mary Warren is a very well known character in the book. She starts off as a follower of Abigail. She is told by Abigail to lie and accuse innocent people of witchcraft. She knows it is wrong but she still does it any ways because Abigail has threatened her. She is scared of Abigail and feels intimidated by her. She does not want to get on Abigail's bad side, no one does. Mary tries to please Abigail as much as possible. She lies in court that Sarah Good, mumbled words under her breathe and she got sick that day because of her. Because of her assumption, Sarah Good was sent to jail for being a witch and confessing it. She knows that she has done wrong and she knows that even though she does confess they other girls will go against her. John helped encourage Mary to tell the truth in the court. She was nervous about confessing because Abigail was going to be there. When she admitted that she had lied about the accusations, the court did not believe her. They thought something conjured her to make these lies. After the court pressuring her to tell the truth and asking her why she made these lies, Abigail and the other girls came into the court room. When she sees Abigail she gets scared and starts to second guess what her decision was. She then continues telling the truth, but Abigail and the other girls tell the court that she is lying. They then start to act as if Mary is a witch or is possessed by the devil. They scream of nonsense such as Mary is a bird, on the ceiling. They then act as if Mary is possessing them and they repeat every word Mary says. Mary starts to get scared and she then realizes that she does not want to be on the opposite team as Abigail is. She then turns her back on the truth and John Proctor. She then tells the court that John conjured her to tell these lies. Mary also apologizes to Abigail and tells everyone she is with the Lord now. But really if she was, she would have told the truth not matter what circumstances took place. In this novel, Mary Warren in a coward and has weak faith in the Lord. She could have been the one who saved many innocent people from being accused but she was to scared of one person to do this. She changed throughout the story by being a follower, to being wise and doing what is right, to a coward.

My Trip to Disney World

My trip to Disney World was back in 2012. This was going to be my first time going to Disney! A lot of my family members were going to go there together. We rented a 14 passenger van just so we could have a fun road trip the way on the way down. Usually when we do go on trips that consisted with a lot of driving, we drive at night to pass the time because we get to sleep. The bad thing about the night driving is the driver does not get to sleep. It took awhile to get to Florida but renting a 14 passenger van has a lot of room so you can do a lot of things. We originally wanted to go to Disney World for 3 days and then go to Clearwater Beach, but thinks got a little hectic. When we first arrived at Disney World, I could not believe how beautiful it was. It was just like the commercials and pictures. Everything about it seemed so magically. We got out of our car and walked up to these golf cart looking carts. We rode in it as the drivers drive other passengers too. When we got to the entrance, we gave them our tickets and we had to decide if we wanted to ride the train or ferry to the Magic Kingdom. We decided to ride the ferry because we thought we'd see some cool water animals, but sadly it was just a longer ride and it was way more crowded then the train. When we finally got there they checked our tickets again we went off to explore! There were so many ride we rode I do not remember all of them. Because my aunts boyfriend is in the Navy, we got fast passes to skip ahead in line to make the time for waiting faster, lucky us. After the whole day of walking, eating, riding and meeting Disney Characters we went to our hotel. We rested for a pretty long time but when it was 10 o'clock PM we went back to Disney World to see the firework show. It was beautiful and when people say Disney World is magical it really is. We were planning to go the Animal Kingdom the next morning but everyone was so exhausted. We relaxed and went swimming at the pool hotel. We decided to leave the Disney hotels early to go to our other hotel and go see Clearwater beach. When we got there we put our things away and went on the beach and say so many jumping dolphins and so many seashells that were not broken. Later that night we went on the boardwalk. They had music, artist, games, movies, and food. It was an amazing time and I hope to go again some time soon.

Act 3 of The Crucible

Act three of the Crucible was quite a climax. The husbands of Rebecca Nurse, Martha Corey, and Elizabeth Proctor try to reason with Danforth, the judge, into letting their wives go. Although Rebecca, Martha, and Elizabeth are innocent, they are still going to be hung because the young girls accusations. In this act, you find out that Elizabeth is again pregnant with John Proctors baby. This is the reason why she does not get hung as soon as possible. Also Mary has agreed to tell the court that she had lied about the accusations. Even though Mary was scared of what the outcome was she decided to do what was right. After Mary's testimony, they do not know what to believe because either she had lied before or is lying now. They question her why she lied and ask her if she's lying now because of the Devil. She answers truthfully but is crying hysterically because all of the pressure put against her. As she tells her testimony, Abigail sits in the room denying everything Mary says. Abigail calls Mary a witch and gets the other young girls to attack her with words. They start to mock every word that Mary says. Danforth asks Mary if she is conjuring them to repeat as she says and John Proctor sticks up for her saying they are only copying her and they think it is a game. John Proctor then admits that he had an affair with Abigail Williams. Danforth, Hathorne, Hale, and Parris are shocked by what he is admitting and they know that what John is saying is serious because, no one would take adultery as a joke during this time. They then start to believe him so Danforth calls in Elizabeth to tell him why she really fired Abigail. She tries to save Johns reputation and does not tell Danforth they had an affair. She only admits that she was scared he "fancied" Abigail. Because of this Danforth then did not believe John Proctors testimony. After all of this chaos, Mary Warren knew that  if she was on John Proctors side that she would get hung with his. So as childish as she is, she turned on him and told the court that the devil is with him and he forced her to make these accusations. She knew if she did not get hung, Abigail was going to hurt her.

Reflection of The Crucible Act 2

In act 2 of The Crucible, the scene is at John Proctor and Elizabeth Proctor's home. Elizabeth is hesitant in trusting John because she knows of his affair with Abigail Williams. But she acts in a mature manner and does not fight or make a big deal out of it. John is obviously mad at himself more then Elizabeth is mad at him. She is mostly hurt and feels like his decision was selfish and it is a against one of the 10 Amendments. She feels as if she is not to judge, only God and himself are to judge his own mistakes. But further on the act, Mary comes in and John is furious because she was told not to go to Salem but she went anyways. She told them about how many women were going to die because of the witch accusations. Mary told them she told the court that Goody Osburn was a witch and because she denied it she will be hung. She also implied that she saved Elizabeth from being accused. She handed Elizabeth a poppet which is now what we call a doll. She told Elizabeth and John she made it in the court. At first I thought it was sweet of Mary to have saved Elizabeth from being accused and making her a poppet. But moments later Giles and Francis come in telling John that they're wives have been taken to jail because of the witch accusations. As they are having this conversation, Ezekiel appears and tries to take Elizabeth to jail. Claiming that she but the needle in the puppet and it stabbed Abigail. Abigail wants to get Elizabeth hung because she wants to be John Proctors wife. I think that Mary did not expect Abigail to do those things to get Elizabeth into jail and hung. Mary told everyone that was at the Proctor's house, that it was her poppet and she gave it to Elizabeth. They asked her to say it to the judge but she won't go to court. The reason she doesn't want to go is because she knows Abigail will be there and she does not want Abigail to hurt her like she said she would. Elizabeth is truly a God women because she does not let jealousy get in the way of her belief in God. She still loves John, she had to kill a rabbit for his meal and she felt bad because she killed it. She does not judge him after his adultery he has committed. Elizabeth could not possible be witch or have any witch intentions.

My First Boyfriend

My first boyfriend was when I was in the 4th grade. His name was Nathan and he went to my church and was the sweetest boy. I felt as if we had many differences and had nothing in common. But we had one thing in common, we liked each other. We were really just friends with crushes on each other. As a 4th grader, you don't know how you're suppose to interact together as a "real" couple. All I knew was we were suppose to go on dates and say "I Love You" and give hugs. Whe he confessed that he liked me it was over the phone. His older brother, Abe, asked my older sister, Branda, if he could talk to me. And as I was waiting to hear what they had to say, Abe told me that Nathan liked me. I was so shocked but so happy because I liked him too and I've always had a crush on him. He always made me laugh whenever we were together just as friends. I remember calling him over the phone and talking about nothing and listening to each other breathe, it was so awkward. I enjoyed every moment of awkwardness now though because when I think back about it, it's hilarious. My aunt would take me to Chuck E. Cheese and Nathan would meet me there. We always played games together and take pictures together in the booths, I wish I still had a picture of us. After collecting all the tickets we would buy each other little prizes from the counter. We wanted to be so alike that we got matching high-top "Converse" to twin. I was best friends with his cousin, so in the summertime we would plan to hangout at her house and just ride bikes and chill. I always looked forward to seeing him and he was truly one of my best friends. But as little kids are, girls thought boys had cooties and boys thought girls had cooties. So our friends that were our age didn't like each other and we always had to choose between our friends and each other. This made us grow distant and we didn't get to talk as often anymore. We grew distant not as just a "couple" but also as friends a month or so later, Nathan broke up with me. I didn't know how to feel but I knew our friendship was going to change. Days later I got a phone call from him, he told me he made a terrible mistake breaking up with me. I told him that it was okay but I was still upset. So we got back together and we stayed together for awhile. But I didn't share the "couple" feelings that I had for him anymore. I honestly started to crush on someone else and it did not feel right to date someone and like someone else. So I broke up with him, and after I did break up with him we never really spoke at all anymore. We still went to church together, so we saw each other quiet often. As years passed we still were very distant. We spoke here and there but never like we were best friends. We hung out with each other only around youth members. But one day his older brother, Abe, and I discussed TOP SECRET stuff. Basically who Abe liked and I happened to be best friends with her. So as I was trying to help a brother out, Nathan and I both worked together to try to get Abe and my best friend together. But in the end it didn't quite workout... but Nathan and I just happen to be closer and became friends again. Before we knew it we were texting everyday and looked forward to seeing each other. We grew more feelings towards each other and we confessed to each other that we had those feelings we did when we were younger. We talked for awhile as just crushes and a couple months later, he asked me out again and of course I said "yes" Luckily I moved to Newton, so now I go to Newton-Conover High School and he goes there too! So we see each other quite often. I am super glad that after all those years we managed to be together again.

My 16th Birthday

I am turning 17 in October but I want to talk about how much fun my 16th birthday really was. I had so much fun that day. My theme was safari animals VS vouchers, of course it was easy to find a costume because it is close to Halloween. So all my friends came over and we played  many party games. There was a game where we had to put split into groups and have a dance battle, and I cant dance but it was fun because no one could really dance either. Everyone tried so hard to win the dance battle but of course being the worst dancer I won because I cant really count the beats, or so they say. But after that game we enjoyed a snack which was nachos and cheese and you would think it's complicated to serve but it's actually really easy. And it's really cheap to buy because you can buy a large quantity of food for a cheaper amount at Sam's Club. The other games we played was a peanut and spoon game. One person had one peanut in a spoon and the others had a spoon and you had to pass the peanut and as it went one round you added another peanut. Whoever dropped the peanut, you had to take do 10 jumping jacks and 5 push-ups. Whoever won would get a prize. The other game we played consisted of balloons tied to our ankles and we tried to pop everyone elses balloons if all your balloons popped then you had to get out of the game and the one who survived would get a prize. After all the party games we had cake and opened presents. My mom is a cake baker so she made me this BEAUTIFUL cake. But since she makes cake all the time I've kinda grown tired of it. But I know everyone loves her cakes. I'm so thankful to have lived up to atleast 16 years and hopefully longer.

"Does every human life have the same worth? For example, does a criminal's life have the same worth as someone who has never committed a crime? Why or why not? Explain"

My opinion is on both sides of this argument. I think that all lives matter, even if they did do the worst thing possible. Many innocent people loose their lives all the time and many people who have committed crimes still live through out their lives. There is a reason for each life lost and there is a reason that each life is still on earth. I think that each innocent life that got taken, because their purpose God gave them was accomplished or God needed them in heaven to do greater things. The criminals that still have their lives today have been given a chance to repent and to find God. But if I lost someone meaningful from a criminal or if a criminal did something to someone i loved I think that i would be angry and mad. I would want them to be punished but i know it would be wrong for me to wish horrible things. God loves everyone equally and even if they have done the worst things you're deciding for yourself if you're going to heaven or hell. If you do not care about where you go, then that is one you. If you do not want to repent and give yourself to God then that is on you.