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How can little girls be so deceiving and ruin a whole town on her devilish ways? Why do bad things happen to good people like John Procter, and good things happen to bad people like Abigail and Danforth? When John and Elizabeth do everything they can to be a good person and they still lose and when Abigail does everything bad nothing happens to her.
Abigail accused a lot of people mostly for her own personal gain or just for the fun of it yet she doesn’t get accused herself. Abigail accused Elizabeth of being a witch even though Elizabeth was not a witch and Abigail knew it. She accused Elizabeth because she was John’s wife and she wanted to be John’s wife so the only way she could do this is if she killed his wife. This makes her bad because she set her up to be a witch by making the Doll Elizabeth had a pretend voodoo doll by stabbing herself with a needle to make it look like Elizabeth put the needle in the Doll to hurt her. This is why she lives because she accuses everyone so no one would accuse her.
John was a good man because he wouldn’t do anything to hurt anyone else on purpose and he is a very respectable man in the town. John wanted to confess he was a witch so he would save his life but when he was asked if he saw people who died and that was not a witch if they were with the devil he said no because he didn’t think they deserved to have their name soiled just so he could live. He did what a good man would do. He died because all the other people who died knew no one was a witch and was not going to ruin anyone else’s life for their own personal gain so he died for other people’s names and so they didn’t die a lair.
Danforth was a terrible person because he wanted to keep his power to a terrible expense. Danforth was a terrible man because when a lot of people were hung under his sentence and died. After little while he knew the people he condemned where not witches but to cover up his mistakes he made it if they confessed they wouldn’t die

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