The Devil In The Grove Sparknotes

The book “The Devil in the Massachusetts” by Marion Lena Starkey is based on witchcraft that took place in the 19th century in Massachusetts. It basically centers on Salem witch trials that take its dialog from genuine trial records; however, applies cutting edge psychiatric learning to the witchcraft mania. The writer additionally includes dramatization perspective into the book which strikingly reproduces the climate of compassion and dread that cultivated the abhorrent and enduring of this human catastrophe. The book “Devil in the Grove” by Gilbert King is based on the most vital American attorney of the twentieth century, Thurgood Marshall was nearly bringing the point of interest suit Brown v. Leading body of Education before the U.S. Preeminent Court when he got to be involved in a touchy and dangerous case that debilitated to change the course of the social equality development and expense him his life.

The concept of the word “devil” is used in two different ways by the authors of these two books. For the book written by Starkey, the concept of “devil” is based around the witch who does witchcraft and harms people as well as creates wrong perception of different things. On the other, for the book written by King, the concept of “devil” is centered on the four black boys who have been allegedly charged with raping a white girl. As it can be seen,

that the word “devil” is perceived differently by the authors for their book owing to which it can be said that there is no similarity between both.
However, there is a similarity between the books related to the word “devil”.

This similarity is based around the fact that victims in both the books have been termed to doing wrong deeds and for that they should be punished severely. During that era, the word “devil” was taken with extreme seriousness owing to which people of that time used to associate “devil-ness” to any act that was severely wrong and not acceptable by the society in any manner. Similarly, in the mentioned books, the act of witchcraft in “The Devil in the Massachusetts” and the act of rape in “Devil in the Grove” was taken with extreme

severity.
The contrast in these books with regards to the concept of “devil” can be seen in one specific way. In the book by Starkey, the witch who performs various kinds of magic to hurt people has been termed as “devil”. The people believed that the best to deal with this was to hand the witch and be rid of her witchcraft once and for all. In the book by King, people term “devil” to not only the boy but also the lawyer. The lawyer, who is actually trying to help the boys and free their name from a crime that they did not commit, becomes the target of the people’s wrath and is termed as “devil”. This is a stark contrast as it reveals that both the books view the term “devil” in complete different way.