witch child entry 3 salem witch trials

  i have now finished the book, the witch child  by Celia Rees. and as i predicted, this novel eventually led to the salem witch trials. i wasnt expecting the book to end the way that it did. i expected a more happy ending. but i really liked how it ended in a suspenseful way that left u wondering what actually happened. overall this book was alright, nothing particularly special about it. the salem witch trials were a tragedy. a lot of people were brutally murdered for something that obviously does not exist (witchcraft). i think that that is why i resisted this book in some ways. but i think it could have been more suspenseful or just more interesting. I do however find it scary to think that this could have been a real incident. It could have been a real person's story of their life in eary America. i dont remember wheather i chose tragedy or triumph for a social studies essay last year on the puritain society. but i wish that i had read this book at the time because it really gives a good perspective of the way puriatins ran their society.