salem.. guilty or not?

I embarked on a journey through the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. In this journey I had to answer only one question was I guilty or not guilty. I became accused of being a witch. I had to go to a trial and everything. I found out that many people where in the same situation I was but in real life, back then people pretty much relied on other people’s word. So anyone could accuse someone else for anything, and accusing someone of being a witch would send them to trial, as I was on. The judge asked me “Are you a witch?” I confessed. I got sent to jail and had to be around women I think were witches and some women who I had no clue about. They wrapped chains around my legs that were meant to keep me from torturing the girls again (something I supposedly did). I got to stand trial, I hoped that I would be set free. But I wanted to blame someone else in fount of the judges, I thought of someone I could accuse of being a witch. Someone who lots of people believed to be one. I lied and told them that I had seen her specter floating out of houses and strangling women and torturing people. I’m found not guilty.
While I was taking this journey, so were many of my classmates whose pleads varied between guilty and not guilty, and some survived. This confirmed my suspicion that this web site was completely random. Whether you pleaded guilty or not guilty, did not determine the end of your journey. This was just like the actual Salem Which Trials, which were also pretty much at random. As many as one hundred and forty people were accused of witch craft and only nineteen were actually executed. I could imagine being accused and feeling alone and like you were against the world. And most of the people that weren’t killed were sent to prison, possible for life.
Being accused as a witch was not the best experience ever, mostly because it ended in me dieing. But it made me realize how it was a “anything goes” type deal, and a big problems back then.

lit circle thread

In our lit circle today we talked about how the world is a crurl and misserable place to live, just like in our book, brian trys to get through the toughest time in the woods, winter. many people can easely say that the time in our world now is the "winter" and many people are struggling just to get by, just like brian.

what can lead to death

Shooter
Why does life occasionally treat people in a way that make them have so much pain that even death sounds like the only thing to get away. Some are bullied, some have a bad home life, some struggle to get by, some are addicted to drugs, and these entire things can drive an individual off the edge.
In the book shooter, Cameron porter is the best friend of the former Len. Cameron was integrated by the police; Cameron makes many points about why people would want to kill them self and/or others. Len was by no means popular and didn’t fit in to any social class; he didn’t have any friends (other than Cameron) or groups of people to hang out with. He started to rebel against rules of school and the law; he defaced a local nativity scene at the church, which Cameron was involved also. He constant acts of immaturity showed he had personal tribulations. When finding out that his actions didn’t help his emotional pain, Len turned to the last resort, death. Right now there are many thoughts like this, people when driven enough will go through and let the other side take over.