The girl and the stones

Well then, I guess I can't post that here.

The notes, they haunt me. D:

Look up the terms, look up the terms.

 Gothic Literature

A combination of Horror and romance. Found mostly in natural settings, castles; crumbling and ruined. Monasteries, and other old buildings. Made famous by Horace Walpole's 'The Castle of Otranto' A combination of Medieval and 'Modern' writing. Was also done by Clara Reeve with her book 'The old English Baron' which added the element of the supernatural. Also famed for it's fainting Heroines, booby traps, hidden passages, and ancestral curses.

Romanticism

Is an Artistic and intellectual movement starting in Europe, near the late 18^th century. It is a heightened interest in nature, emphasis on the individual (their emotions, attitude, etc etc.) Was against the mainstream art and thinking at the time. Some of the poets are William Blake, Lord Byron, William Wordsworth, Samuel Coleridge, Percy B. Shelly, John Keats, Matthew Arnold, and John Clare.

Transcendentalism

A new set of Ideas, philosophies, Literature, Religion, and Culture. It started as a revolt against intellectualism in Britain that was taught at Harvard Divinity school. Emerson's 1836 essay Nature is usually taken to be the moment when transcendentalism became a major cultural movement. Emerson wrote in his essay "The American Scholar": "We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; Divine Soul which also inspires all men." Emerson closed the essay by calling for a revolution in human consciousness to emerge from the new idealist philosophy.

The crucible

Burn the witches!
What do we burn them with?
More witches!

Characters

Ezekiel Cheever
Cheever’s job is originally as a tailor and he is considered to be an ‘honest man'. He becomes a clerk of the court once the trials begin. His job is to draft and then deliver warrants for the arrest of those who have been charged.

Giles Corey
Giles Corey is a farmer and owns a considerable amount of land. He is married to Martha Corey, his third wife. He is a man who speaks his mind, on occasions without thinking of the consequences his  opinions may have, and it is from his own comment that his wife is jailed(She reads strange). He also knows his rights when it comes to the law and he has been in court on 32 separate occasions.

John Proctor
Elizabeth Proctor
Abigial
Mercy
Mary

Hale

 Hale is a minister from Beverley. He is a stranger to the village and is brought by Parris. . When John Proctor tells him that Abigail has said the girls are lying, it confirms his suspicions but he resists.

His actions result in the conviction of innocent people He asks ‘I beg you, stop...I may shut my conscience no more – private vengeance is working’. He denounces the court proceedings and then recognises what his actions have done - ‘there is blood on my head’.

Judge Hathorne

He is the prosecutor of the court and questions those accused in a supporting role to Deputy-Governor Danforth. His questioning is harsh and he is eager to condemn. He is quick to call for the arrest of anyone who dares to challenge him or the court.

The Salem Witch trials

Two young girls, aged nine and eleven, have fallen victim to fits including screams, strange contortions, and throwing objects. The village doctor, unable to explain the symptoms, suggested that witchcraft may be to blame. Others in the settlement began to exhibit similar behavior, and accusations began to fly.

During the trails the women or men accused were stripped before the court, a humiliating expreience, as you can see here. The purpose was to find the devils mark upon he accused, which could be anything as simple as a freckle or a bruise.

The trials that followed left nineteen people hanged, and many others imprisoned under suspicion of being a which. Today, the true cause of the strange behavior in Salem is still a mystery. One theory suggests that the community’s rye crop may have been to blame.

My Heritage

One half Indian
One forth French
And one forth German
makes me!

The Pilgrams and the Indians

The Pilgrims

The Pilgrims, everyone knows about them, right? The happy little settlers trying to escape religious persecution by a tyrant king. The met the happy little Indians who helped them survive in a new world, thanks to Squanto the english speaking indian ( http://www.workersforjesus.com/f25-14.htm ), and so they gathered around a big table and had thanksgiving. A time to stuff yourself full of turkey and be thankful to the world.
http://www.holidays.net/thanksgiving/pilgrims.htm
This link seems to confirm that story, right? But what really happened?
http://www.2020tech.com/thanks/temp.html
As told in the story here (You have to scroll down) the pilgrims were not just innocent people, but indeed revolutionaries. They did not welcome the indians, but thought of them as heathens. The 'peace' that was supposedly ever lasting, was, infact, short lived, less than one generation.
The start of the story, was of course, misleading.
http://books.google.com/books?id=tiBNJTrWRR4C&pg=PA98&lpg=PA98&dq=The+pilgrims+from+the+indians+POV&source=bl&ots=hf3OVBMSRW&sig=4-Clno9BVSEZfDM4peKAHEGTWpw&hl=en&ei=kCWdSq_kKMbmnQebrIyWCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6#v=onepage&q=&f=false
The Pilgrims robbed the graves of the Indians, stole their food, and gave them small pox. But, it was not all bad. The Indians and the pilgrims did get along very well, and were much needed and welcomed allies, but only from need, not a willingness to accept others that are different.
http://www.gerrymay.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/first-thanksgiving.jpg

This short lived peace was a good time. But in time, religious differences tore the peace apart. In truth, while the concept of Thanksgiving is a noble pursuit indeed, you will find that most people will ignore the horrors that truly happened. Thanksgiving is a mixture of Fact and Myth, it's up to you to decide if you want to know the truth or not.