9-1+Townspeople

Townspeople

Your Name: Katie Hoch

Characters: 1. Giles 2. Francis 3. Marco

Choose one of the characters above and answer the following questions from their perspective.

The character I chose was:

1. What is the problem you are faced with? My wife is going to be killed because she wont confess to being a witch.

2. Who do you think is responsible for your problem, and what is motivating them? I think that it is half my fault because i was joking and said that she bewitches me because i cant pray when she reads, but she is being blamed for cursing pigs. I think that the motivation for this is that everyone is getting carried away with believing in witch craft being in our town that now they will accuse anybody and everybody of being a witch.

3. How are you trying to solve your problem, and are you successful? I am trying to solve this problem by having 91 men sign a petition saying that their wives are good people and are not bewitched.

4. Is there anything ironic or contradictory about what you know and what you say or do? In a way because as a joke i said that my wife bewitches me because i cant pray when she reads, but i did not mean it to be taken seriously and it was. So now i am trying to save my wife from being killed and i fear that i am some what responsible for the position we are in, and everyone uses what i said against me.

5. When you have completed your questions above, go to your group’s discussion page and post a discussion about how you feel the trial is going so far. Don’t forget to use specific examples, and sign your character’s name.

6. Next, log onto another group’s discussion page and respond to a posting as your character.

Project: Using the program Pages (the inkwell icon on the dock) write either a one page editorial/newspaper or public notice to hang on the church door expressing “your” feelings about the events happening in the town.