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Conversion Book Report

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Carla Joiner
American Literature
Block 4
11 January 2016

Conversion is narrated from the point of view of the main character and protagonist, Colleen. She is a student in her senior year at St. Joan’s Academy, an all-girls Catholic school. As a junior student at Beaumont School, also an all-girls Catholic school, Colleen’s experience is slightly relatable. At the beginning of the school year many students had much stress. The effects started off with crying randomly in the middle of class. This then escalated into throwing up and passing out. These were caused by the junior class stress level. “‘Conversion disorder,” she explained, “happens when you are experiencing really serious, really unusual stress in your life. And your body doesn 't know how to handle being under so much stress, so it 'converts ' it’” (Howe). Could they be acting out in stress or just causing a scene for the needed attention? Could the girls in Joan’s Academy really be controlled by a supernatural force like the people of Salem 1692 believed happened due to the evil of witches?
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