The two subjects that i will be comparing today are “The Crucibles” and “The Dying Girl That No One Helped”. Both of the stories are similar in many different ways but also have many differences. “The Crucibles” is about a town named salem where the town minister found a group of girls practicing witchcraft including his niece Abigail. Abigail and the group of girls started accusing everybody of practicing witchcraft to deflect blame from themselves. Reverend Proctor being the one accusing the girls of witchcraft, would be questioned for having witchcraft at his own home. Basically if you named people you wouldn't be hanged but if you deny it you would, That's how the witchcraft panic in salem started. The second story was of a young women named Kitty Genovese who was walking in the streets of New york was brutally murdered while many people witnessed her murdered, not one spoke out to the authorities for the fear of being questioned or blamed. …show more content…
Both of the stories had people that were scared to speak out and the reasoning was for not being hanged like in the “The Crucibles” or not being questioned or blamed by the authorities like in “The Dying Girl That No One Helped”. People did not have many rights back then so they were obviously going to have some type of fear when they spoke out. In “The Crucibles” Reverend Parris was going to be blamed for the witchcraft taken place at his home so he rathered not let the people in the town know so they wouldn't blame him for the witchcraft his own niece