A Break With Charity Summary

In the book a break with charity by ann rinaldi the main character, Susana english looks back on 1691 and all the choices she made that had to do with the Salam witch trials. Susana was standing in the town talking to the town gossip, Sarah bibber. When Susana was standing there she saw Ann Putnam and a group of girs she despreilty wanted to be friends with go into the reverends parris passage. Susana asked sarah and found out the only go in when the reverend is gone because they were strict puritans and that was a sin. Susana is nervous about her brother William who set sail in his father’s ship, William and Susana. The family hasn’t heard from will in a while and has grown nervous he had a run in with pirates. The revenend parris bought a slave named Tituba who was known for being able to do magic and …show more content…
Or her sister, Mary complains of having to sew all day when Susanna gets to go out. When Susana gets in she is scolded for being soaking wet and dirty and her parents have many questions of where she has been. When Susana finally gets a chance to sit down she realizes it is a silk day. But tomorrow will be a brown bodice and skirt day. Susana’s mother was at first happy with her husband’s wealth but she started to feel guilty because he was providing for a war. Because of that she does as many things as she can to give back. The mother and father discuss about how the father is supporting cotton mathers but he does not like cotton methers because of his talk of witchcraft. But the mother questions why he is supporting him them, but the father likes cottons father. They get a knock on the door from sarah good, the father goes and talks to her and after what seems to be in hour he comes back. He asks susanna to come with him to talk. He asks why she lied what she did with the goods and Susana tells him about her new found