The Importance Of Being Forgiven In The Crucible

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John Porcter asked to be forgiven for a wrong he had done in The Crucible. The wrong he has done was a afire with a 17 year old girl named Abigail when he was married to his wife Elizabeth. John said he will do a lot of stuff to get forgiveness from his wife Elizabeth like buy her a cow or buy flowers to lighting up the mood in the house and the house itself, but he just get a cold shoulder.Which was not what he was hoping for.He even thought about going to Abigail and telling her they will never be a couple. The one time i asked to be forgiven was the time i got kicked out of the mall for a year.I was shopping kart racing with my friends and one of them was in the cart so it would move faster. It was going all good till i hit a car and scratched/

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