<p>Was anyone else scared as the read the Crucible? It felt more like a horror novel to me, the way that John Proctor lived in a world where everyone was an idiot. (:</p>
<p>Fear-mongering always looks idiotic in hindsight. Just wait twenty years and see how we remember Bush.</p>
<p>lol.
what really bugged me was that everyone seemed to just walk into everyone else’s house at all hours. i get it was a play but really.
that book was the red scare at it’s best. peer pressure, group polarization and admissions of guilt not unlike those faced by those in japanese internment camp. “admit your a witch and who your crew was and you can go” or “dont admit to it and die, even if you are innocent just lie for us”</p>
<p>but cira we remember bush Now as in idiot.</p>
<p>and have any of you seen the movie version of the crucible, i dunno why but that was way funny after reading the book.</p>
<p>Panic, that’s just small town life. People still do that, apparently. I’m glad I don’t live in that small of a town. Who knows what my neighbors might find out about me.</p>
<p>i’d be setting up booby traps. you want to be in my business please knock, i might be having some dungeon action going on and then in walks mrs. stclair from down the street. no deal.</p>
<p>Dungeon action?</p>
<p>what i cant have a dungeon in my small town house?
recreate scenes from jane eyre or something.</p>
<p>When I think of dungeons, I generally don’t think of literature. More like geeks in capes rolling D-20’s, or else something quite kinky.</p>
<p>what’s a d-20?
and i just thought of rick james when you said kinky. i think ive been brainwashed.</p>
<p>It’s a twenty sided die.</p>
<p>Oh dear.</p>
<p>^^ haha. i remember reading the Crucible… we read it aloud as a class, it was HILARIOUS to listen to some of my classmates have to read to awkward parts of the story (like when Abigail calls John Proctor was a “stallion”) my english teacher actually made her reread it so it sounds “realistic” i laughed so hard i almost cried.</p>
<p>NERD ALERT!</p>
<p>No I completely went to that first too, cira. We can cry together over our lameness.</p>
<p>I saw the movie too! Daniel Day-Loius(John Proctor) was the only good actor, but the rest was just ridiculously funny. Like when the old man with a cane and arthritis is accused of climbing through the second story window of a house to commit “witcheries” against the girl who is accusing him.</p>
<p>We just finished Macbeth like that. My poor friend was Malcolm, and she had to read his speech about his wild, uncontrollable lust… It was probably the most hilarious thing she’s done in her young life.</p>
<p>Have you ever actually played D&D, Donny? I did once while I was visiting my sister at college. It was kind of fun! But also as extremely nerdy as you could possibly imagine it to be.</p>
<p>ewww dont tell me you two are the dungeons and dragons loving type people???
::gasp:: i think i rather have kinky, leather loving cybermates.
and wow elmo your teacher is evil. i remember we were playing cranium one day in english and this girl had to pose the person so they could guess the answer, and like after having great difficulty moving him a kid yells out “sex” as the answer. turns out it was supposed to be boxing, but everyone was in tears.</p>
<p>my fav scene is on the side of the house in the beginning where proctor totally walks away from abigail or whoever, after she vigorously throws herself at him.</p>
<p>No DD for me, but i have an unnaturally knowledge of the ways of the nerd.</p>
<p>you make it sound like an artform donny.</p>
<p>I didn’t particularly like The Crucible… Or anything I read in English last year, pretty much. To Kill A Mockingbird was fine, but I liked stuff I did in 9th grade better. I really liked The House on Mango Street.</p>
<p>i liked house on mango street but there was a book i liked more. i dont remember the name. a gilr in like mexico makes special foods for her lover who she is denied and they end up burning the house at the end.</p>
<p>it was like water for chocolate!!!
amazing book</p>
<p>“House on Mango Street” should have been called “I Hate my Family.” Or at least, that’s what I got from the excerpt i read in my English class.</p>
<p>And it is an artform, mls. It is simultaneously beautiful and repulsive. It can expand your imagination beyond anything you can foresee, yet requires you to be the bane of society. I’m only half joking really.</p>
<p>I think you need to read the whole thing. Holistically, it’s more like, “I hate men more than I want sex. Girls, ***? Stick together and we can stop all these awful men from ruining our lives!”</p>
<p>Actually, you probably still wouldn’t like it, being the ardent sexist you are.</p>