Hansel Retold Summary

An virus hits Whethersfield and the town blames Hannah Turper because they believe she cursed the town. They rally up and burn Hannah’s house down. Kit warns Hannah about the mob and they run away. The Dolphin comes into town and Hannah flags it down. She tells Nat to take Hannah and get away safe.

It is prohibited to dance because of their religion and soon everyone knew that the group of girls were dancing in the forest naked. Abigail threatened the girls by telling them if they said that they did more than danced in the forest she’ll “come to [them] in the black of some terrible night and [she] will Lopez 2 bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder [them]” (Miller 148).Abigail and the girls started blaming random people in the town. Abigail’s intensions were to blame goody Proctor and have John Proctor all to herself. The girls made bad actions instead of confessing. With the huge act they had going on; they caused people to die based on their lies.

In the play Abby tries to do witchcraft to kill John Proctor's wife Elizabeth. She almost gets caught doing it so she accuses many people of bewitching her and got many people hanged. She accuses Elizabeth of bewitching her to kill her. The court will not kill her because she is pregnant but John Procter ends up being hanged because he was accused.

To one of the main characters, Pearl, the forest is symbolized to be her only friend. Through the whole book, Pearl and her mother, Hester was disgraced and considered outcasts among the townspeople due to the scarlet letter that Hester bears on her breast every single day. “The woman has brought shame upon us all, and ought to die (46)”. With the taunts and disgraceful remarks that the townspeople make everyday, Pearl cannot live a normal life and make any friends due to her mother’s scar.

At last when the men return he seems to be seeing ghosts and runs from the house, and the girl deceives her family with a quick lie about his "fear" of dogs. First, When the girl gets her answer and understands he has no idea about her family she starts the theme of deception with a well crafted lie. She explains how her mother is waiting for her husband and two sons who have been gone for three years and she always waits for them, when in reality they had left earlier that

People in the village had power by influencing others to lie in order not to receive the consequences of witchcraft. Abigail shows power in the play by influencing the girls and what to say and do. She threatened all the girls she will hurt them if they open their mouth and say the truth. Abigail threatens, “Let either one of you breathe a word, or the edge of the other thing and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will being a pointy reckoning that will shutter you.”(Act 1). Abigail tells them she will shutter them with something that will hurt them in a dark night.

“Now look you… I will come to you in the black of some terrible night… bring a reckoning that will shudder you… I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down”. In order to save herself she did extreme things; she made people fear of her, that way people would obey. In act II, she accused Elizabeth Proctor of witchery; she said that Elizabeth used poppets to damage her. Abagail Williams had a horrible obsession with John Proctor; she invented false testimonies in order to keep away Elizabeth form John. The fact is that because her name was pure in Salem, almost everybody trusted her.

Her hatred for Elizabeth Proctor emerges from the very beginning of Act I, saying that, “Goody Proctor is a gossiping liar!” after she was discharged from being their servant and no other family has contacted her for her services. She continues her hatred in Act II when Abigail first accuses Elizabeth of witchcraft and Elizabeth knowing this, responds with, “I am sure she does--and thinks to kill me, then take my place.” Abigail is so determined to get her way that she even puts on a show to get her arrested. According to Ezekiel Cheever, “She sat to dinner in Reverend Parris’s house tonight, and without a word no warnin’ she falls to the floor… in the flesh of her belly, he drew a needle out.

Giles Corey and the Hollywood Ten were both punished publicly. In the play, Giles was killed in front of many people. For everyone that was accused for witchcraft, they were hanged in the middle of the town for people to watch. The people that were put on the blacklist were publicly punished because they could not get hired due to the threat of communism. The people were humiliated in front of everyone because they used the 5th amendment and decided to not answer anything they were asked.

They thought she was an evil witch who cursed people for the bad. Lizabeth destroyed Miss Lottie’s sunflowers because she thought that the flowers was destroying the relationship with her family. One night Lizabeth parents was fussing in the middle of the night. Lizabeth was tired of it so she woke her brother up and they ranned to Miss Lottie’s garden. Her brother was yelling, “ Where are we going ?

This is the story of the Lidtke Mill ghost. It was February 22nd, 1859 when they saw the figure. They had been getting complaints about the sound last summer when people drove by. Some even claimed there was a figure in the doorways. The owner, though had never believed those people.

‘‘World War II is the greatest drama in human history, the biggest war ever and a true battle of good and evil.’’ The Book Thief and Unbroken both are stories about World War II. But from two completely different perspectives. In The Book Thief, Liesel is adopted by Hans and Rosa, moving to Germany.

A virtuous hero is someone who, despite the odds, follows their morals. Virtue itself is not born into a person, but is a choose everybody has. In life not everyone is born into a positive environment or family, but they can choose to be virtuous, or not. Similarly people who were born into privilege can still choose the wrong path. The choose to be virtuous is not easy;it requires sacrifice, and there is temptation to do what is easy and go against set morals.

Grete’s Significant Transformation She’s the only one who can face Gregor in his new body. She is the only one who can understand his needs. She is no longer Gregor’s little sister who needs to be protected, now she wants to return the favor, her name is Grete.