Letter To Mr Parris Analysis

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Dear Mr. Parris
(intro)
I seen the way you have been treating Tituba through out her life and it is unfathomable to think of all the ways you have hurt her in her life. She has had to go throw things that no child should ,she has lost everything but she still holds her head high and proud. Mr. Parris she has been with you before anyone else and you would still believe everyone else over her.She has had to confess to thing that she had no part in, and when it came to thing she did in groups of people then she would be everyone's escape goat.
(Ethos)
playwright so that the story of the people that you have put hardship upon live on. I know how you got Tituba and your husband ,John, at the some time and forced into slavery they were only between the age of 12 and 18 at that time . There was no record of them in history until you returned from your Plantation in Barbados, so that means that you took them away form their home. That was not fair to them and you did not understand there culture so it made it easy for her to be blamed so the simplest things, she put up with this for yeas and that is unfair to her. my Mr. Parris I know all I need to know about your transgression because I am a private investigator and have followed your story as
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Parris did you ever wonder why the girls never stood against each other, or did you think they would never lie. Well Abigail Williams force to into submission by saying " Let either of you breathe a word ,or the edge of a word, about the other things, and i will come to you in the black of some terrible night and i will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you." Abigail was a demagogue our these girls and you did nothing to protect the innocent people that lost their lives over this foolishness. You never told the court how you saw the girls dancing in the woods and one of them was naked. You protect them and you should have been one of the people to et hanged for your devastating

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