The Crucible Passage 1 And 2 Essay

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Way back in the day during slavery you’d think things were just only complicated between black
By Matthew H and whites, but it was also a struggle for women. They had to stay at home, couldn’t go anywhere, and they couldn’t even go out in public easily and freely. Basically all you did was stay home and be the average maid to the husband. Wasn’t fun and it’s just like slavery, just with white women or any race.

Reading the script I think passage 1 is more accurate on women rights. Unlike 2, this passage straight up tells the beginning of her quest and everything she did to accomplish it. She went to places and into a church to hold meetings and to describe how their going to spread the word of freedom, says in the passage. When they explain the hardships and the missions, they actually give every detail of what happened and how she did it and
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As it starts off it talks about her meeting someone on the street to discuss a plan. Then it later talks about her leaping to action to put together a women’s rights march and protest around the country. Even though it tells what she does, the passage doesn’t give the vivid aspect of her travels and exactly how she does or lays it out like passage 1. More like a quick biography, which it probably is, it just explains her life and actions in a step-by-step method without putting as much glaring detail to how she set it up or proceeded with the movement.

Passage 1 to me is more helpful and gives more information than the other. The second passage just needs to have more detail and tell a lot more about how she put the plan into action than arrange it like a life story. Women though weren’t always free and men mostly ruled the world back then and were still cruel and self-centered into thinking that their more superior.
But yes I like passage 1 more, it’s more

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