Tuesday 19 October 2010

The Heretic's Daughter - Kathleen Kent - Questions

Hello everyone,

Just to remind you that the book club will be held this Thursday 21st October.

Here are some questions you might like to think about for the meeting:
- Identify and discuss some of the factors that contributed to the witch hysteria in seventeenth-century New England
- Discuss Mercy Williams' role in the tragedy that befalls the Carrier family. What motivates Mercy?
- Why do you think the magistrates, and the wider community of Salem so easily believed in and relied on "spectral evidence"?
- Are there any notable or notorious ancestors in your family tree? Did this book make you want to look into your ancestry?

Questions created by PPH bookclub.

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