Kaskin Task Force: A Short Story

Abigail becomes comfortable with avoiding the death of her daughter, putting up a wall that her family cannot break through. As Abigail distances herself from her family and refuses to comfort them, this foreshadows to the reader her ability to walk away and leave her children later in the novel. Through her actions, it is made evident that the defence mechanism of avoidance and denial has a negative impact on Abigail and her family.

A: Abigail tries to convey that Boston has been left in shambles since her husband was last there. She uses words such as “dirty” and “abominable” to convey her feelings. She chooses these details

He turned his head toward me and peered at me through swollen eyes. “I begged her not to go with him,” he said quietly. “Do you hear me, I begged her!”

Abigail tries to convey the general impact of the Revolution in Boston. She chose the details she did to try show John Adams what has changed in Boston as a result of the Revolution. She shares that the city is in a better condition that what she was expecting

In addition, Abigail has control over Elizabeth Proctor after her plan is successfully executed; she frames Goody Proctor and is responsible for her arrest. Elizabeth Proctor is arrested when Cheever, an man working for the court, comes to inspect the house after she has been accused of witchcraft. Cheever links her to a mysterious incident which happened to Abigail Williams. Mister Parris found a needle in Abigail’s stomach and Elizabeth had a doll, with a needle also located in the stomach, that was given to her by Mary Warren earlier on. “And he goes to save her, and, stuck two inches in the flesh of her belly, he draw a needle out. And demandin’ of her how she come to be so stabbed, she - to Proctor now - testify it -were your wife’s familiar spirit pushed it in.” (Miller, 74) Abigail is in complete control of Elizabeth Proctor and feels superior to her after being the reason she is arrested. She also feels powerful for getting her revenge on the woman who dismissed her from her job as their servant and the took the man she loved away from

Abigail changes her point of view again, this time for a larger purpose. “Why then, not put it out of the power of the vicious and the Lawless to use us with cruelty and indignity and impunity (24).” Abigail’s use of the word us shows she is no longer posing her argument from a personal stance, but to include all

In Arthur Miller’s play, Abigail is represented to restrict the voice and opinion of others, through the use of ferocity. During Act 1, we see how her manipulation skills are on full display. As almost busted for

Abigail Adams was a wise and educated woman that had one wonderful but challenging life. Like any other women in the 1700s, she grew up to become someone’s wife, bear children and live in the private life of her husband’s house. Abigail has a slightly different story than other women though. She grew up with her sisters and brother and had a tutor so they became literate, which was not a thing for women. Educated men didn’t want a wife that was smart, they wanted someone to take care of them and the children and just about nothing else. In the following paragraphs we will talk about who the author is, a back story of who Abigail is, and the thesis of the book as a whole.

The main point of this chapter was to showcase the religious, family-oriented background that Abigail was raised in. It explains why she is so focused on her family and John later in her life. It also explains her penname “Diana” and her love for literature and being involved in politics, after being taught to read at a young age.

When Abigail first enters the play, the audience feel sympathy towards her since she is an orphan. However, it is quickly made clear that she has the potential to cause confusion through her

Months past, years past and Abigail hated it in her new city. “I have thought long and hard about my final decision that am going to make, it may shock some people, but that’s okay. Hopefully I will leave on a good note like John Proctor did.”

In the novel “Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City” written by Elijah Anderson, Elijah discusses how the environment and the economy affects the choices that youths in the inner-city make in life. Elijah agrees that the inner-city black America is extremely violent, but he asserts that there is this “code” individuals in these areas need to understand in order not to be harmed. Elijah supported this code using interviews and personal stories from individuals living in the inner-cities to support the idea that those who follow the code live an easier life than those who do not. Something important to point out from this novel is that violence does not occur out of nowhere, but

So, after the news that Abigail and the other girls’ outlandish actions begins to spread like a wildfire, the hysteria in the community take over. Abigail only contributes to the hysteria by telling lie after lie just to cover up her wrongdoings. Abigail is dreading telling the truth, which has triggered hysteria to a dangerous level that otherwise, would not have been achieved.

“ We - we can’t stay here it, it isn’t safe we have to get out of her-”

Dark alleys frighten me, If I was ever to find myself in one I would die right there. Sadly, I know a lightless alley. It’s the place where my best friend was going to be killed, murdered, assassinated. Did I want to know this information, no, but I was forced to.