The Crucible and Just Ask My Children have many similarities. Mainly, innocent people being wrongly accused for something they did not do. In both of these of stories, all because people pointed fingers and lied about someone ended up costing that someone’s life, whether it was from being in jail their whole life or they were hanged. Now the difference of these two stories, while the accused in Just Ask My Children ended up spending their whole life in prison from being wrongly accused of child molestation, the accused in The Crucible ended up getting hanged for being called witches. But both of these stories had innocent people losing their lives all because someone lied about them. There is also a mention of the witches in Salem when the