The Crucible Chapter Summaries

We start the chapter with Laurie being Teleported by Jon to Laurie’s mom to catch up while Jon, Veidt, and Dan attend Edward Blake’s funeral in New York. Outside the cemetery gates, we see the redheaded doomsayer again. His constant appearance makes me believe that he has some significance to the story later. Meanwhile, Laurie and her mother get in an argument for her forgiving the Comedian’s attempted rape forty years back. Sally (her mother) begins think of the past and with the flash of a camera, we enter Sally’s flashback when the minutemen posed for their iconic photo. I noticed however that in the room there was newspaper about the development of plutonium. Which could be a direct reference to the development of the nuclear bomb. After the photo, Sally changes her clothes upstairs, during her changing Eddie makes his move. Sally resists and claws his face making him bleed. Eddie hits her to the ground and forces himself upon her. Hooded Justice shows up and beats Eddie. …show more content…
Who consists of Jon, Dan, Rorschach, Laure, Vedit, and Eddie. However, Jon has his arm around a woman we haven’t seen yet. Captain Metropolis describes how the Minutemen where disbanded, but crime never is still on the rise. The Comedian laughs and the meeting falls apart because the Comedian burns Captain Metropolis’s plans and calling the team a joke. Also during this flashback, I noticed that Rorschach speech bubbles didn’t have jagged edges like they do in the present which suggests he wasn’t always so cold and harsh and something made him that