Facing Reality In The Crucible

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From each unit we have studied we have focused on the theme of each text we read. Comparing all the texts we have read this semester all of them all have the underlying theme of Facing Reality. In Unit one we talked about Christopher Columbus and how he “discovered the Americas” and analyzed the constitution,  in unit two we read the Shakespeare play The Tempest, and our last unit we concluded  with the reading and analysis of the text The Crucible and the Salem Witch Trials. All these texts have the theme of facing reality. In unit one this has that theme due to because in his letters he wrote on how glorious and how prosperous the king and queen would be due to this newfoundland and when they got their the supplies had already ran out. Christopher

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