The Crucible Act 1 Scene 2 Study Guide

1: Summarize: Losing your father is hard, but it is even harder to learn how to move on from there. For Raidy that is exactly what she must do, she knew her father had been sick for months, and the experimental treatment was just that experimental, but she had her hopes high. She knew what was going on as the doctors and nurses gathered around his bedside, and she begged him not to go. In the end, there was nothing that could be done, he was ready, so her mother said many times in the passing days. She hoped that they would return home to Bonner’s Ferry and her father would be buried there, but her mother told her of the burdens left for her, the hospital bills, the expenses, she could not leave just yet, and her father requested to be buried …show more content…
Samuel watched Raidy from afar, trying to keep his distance, but something drew him to her, and one night as she was coming to visit her father he noticed five boys were attacking her, feeling helpless because the midnight hour had not tolled, he watched the scene unfold. When the last bell toll, he came to her rescue chasing them off with his shovel, from that day he could, and would not leave her side. Raidy woke to find herself in the hospital, and soon after remembered what happen, and decided she would thank the boys that saved her. She hunted down the one boy she could remember that refused to hurt her, and as scared as the boy was she became fast friends with him and his girlfriend, and soon the four of them became family. Raidy with the help of her two new friends and their Nona (gypsy witch and Carlos girlfriend’s grandmother) they help to break Samuel’s curse and bring him back to the world. The happiness that came with the breaking of the curse, came with sadness and confusion, then more happiness. However, to learn more you must read the …show more content…
It was so magical, and kept me on the edge of my seat the entire read, another book that I could just not put down! I honestly did not think that the story line was headed in the direction it did. I thought that the Samuel was a vampire, not a cursed soul! It was such a great read I really felt like I connecting to each of the characters, I was with Mona during the most intimate of destruction that was happening to her, I felt Carlos’s pain while watching things unfold, I understood Nona’s reasoning for her cryptic words, and the unconditional love that the Raidy and Samuel felt for each other even in the light of the hardest task that they would