Making Connections: The Crucible and A Simple Plan
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Common theme: Through the development of different characters in both novels the authors reveal how greed eventually results in problems.
When I was younger my older sister would always mess with me by telling me that my toys had monsters inside them. When she wanted to take one of my toys she would tell me that it was actually an evil monster which would scare me into not using the toy anymore. She knew that this was not the truth but she was greedy and wanted to use my toys that I would never let her play with normally. Eventually I found out about the truth but she had taken about half my toys by the time I realized she was fooling me. Just like in …show more content…
Once Hank had control of the situation he could manipulate Sonny as he pleased for Sonny feared death. The same went with me once my sister convinced me that there was something haunting my toy I would believe anything that she said because I was horrified of these “possessed” toys. Fear can be one of the most powerful emotions and it can be used to exploit one psychologically.
Quote #2 from OR: “It’s just that before we didn't know who we were stealing from. Knowing where it’s form doesn't make any difference” (Smith 288). Although Hank and his wife Sarah knew all along that they were stealing they didn't care who they were stealing from as long as they could keep the money. This ties in along with the mechanic fraud in the way that they are doing it because they are greedy and they don't care if it is stealing.
Quote #2 from “TC”: “This man is killing his neighbors for their land” (Miller 187)! Giles Corey calls out Mr. Putnam and says that he is telling his daughter to accuse his neighbors so that he receives their land. As this example conveys many people were using the witch trials for personal gain rather than to cleanse the …show more content…
Character commonality: Mary Warren from The Crucible and Jacob from A Simple Plan are similar in the way that they are both controlled by fear throughout the course of the novels.
Quote #1 from “TC”: “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” (Miller 148). Abigail has power over the other girls by threatening them which scares them into submission throughout the trials. Although not all the girls may have bad intentions they are unable to do anything about it for fear of Abigail.
Quote #1 from OR: “I’ll burn the money, Jacob. If I think you two’re going to screw this up, I’ll just burn it” (Smith 117). During the first half of the book Hank commands Lou and Jacob around around by threatening to burn the money. Eventually Lou realizes that Hank is actually to greedy to burn the money and the power switches into Lou’s
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Text to self
Text to world
Common theme: Through the development of different characters in both novels the authors reveal how greed eventually results in problems.
When I was younger my older sister would always mess with me by telling me that my toys had monsters inside them. When she wanted to take one of my toys she would tell me that it was actually an evil monster which would scare me into not using the toy anymore. She knew that this was not the truth but she was greedy and wanted to use my toys that I would never let her play with normally. Eventually I found out about the truth but she had taken about half my toys by the time I realized she was fooling me. Just like in …show more content…
Once Hank had control of the situation he could manipulate Sonny as he pleased for Sonny feared death. The same went with me once my sister convinced me that there was something haunting my toy I would believe anything that she said because I was horrified of these “possessed” toys. Fear can be one of the most powerful emotions and it can be used to exploit one psychologically.
Quote #2 from OR: “It’s just that before we didn't know who we were stealing from. Knowing where it’s form doesn't make any difference” (Smith 288). Although Hank and his wife Sarah knew all along that they were stealing they didn't care who they were stealing from as long as they could keep the money. This ties in along with the mechanic fraud in the way that they are doing it because they are greedy and they don't care if it is stealing.
Quote #2 from “TC”: “This man is killing his neighbors for their land” (Miller 187)! Giles Corey calls out Mr. Putnam and says that he is telling his daughter to accuse his neighbors so that he receives their land. As this example conveys many people were using the witch trials for personal gain rather than to cleanse the …show more content…
Character commonality: Mary Warren from The Crucible and Jacob from A Simple Plan are similar in the way that they are both controlled by fear throughout the course of the novels.
Quote #1 from “TC”: “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” (Miller 148). Abigail has power over the other girls by threatening them which scares them into submission throughout the trials. Although not all the girls may have bad intentions they are unable to do anything about it for fear of Abigail.
Quote #1 from OR: “I’ll burn the money, Jacob. If I think you two’re going to screw this up, I’ll just burn it” (Smith 117). During the first half of the book Hank commands Lou and Jacob around around by threatening to burn the money. Eventually Lou realizes that Hank is actually to greedy to burn the money and the power switches into Lou’s