A Break With Charity Analysis

If you're on the hunt for a creepy little town back in 1692, we've got just the place for you: Salem, Massachusetts. Here's the thing: in many ways, Salem is just another colonial town. You've got...

We've got our leading lady here to give us her story. Yep—Susanna English tells us the whole tale from start to finish. What's cool about this is that we get to hear about a big historical event...

When our narrator is a teenage girl, we know we're reading young adult lit. Our storyteller, Susanna English, is fourteen years old and her teen years are filled with some serious drama. In fact, m...

Oh Susanna, you sure do have a sad story to tell. And this means that our girl often sounds pretty somber when she's telling her tale. We can't blame her, though—after all, Susanna has been throu...

When it comes to telling her tale, Susanna wants to give us the details and tell it like it is—she doesn't want us guessing about anything at all, and that means serving up every little tidbit ab...

When we look at A Break with Charity, we see tons of charitable people who are super kind (what's up Joseph Putnam), but we also see tons of folks who are pretty mean (we're looking at you, afflict...

Break out the tissues, Shmoopers, because this ending is a sad one. For starters, by the end of the book nineteen people in Salem have been hanged for witchcraft and, of course, none of them were a...

Get ready for a page-turner, because this book is filled with suspense and that makes it a quick read. Sure the story is brimming with history, but it's the fun kind of history—you know, the kind...

Cliquey Girls Have All the FunSusanna is feeling really left out when the girls in Salem hang out without her. Oh, and they're hanging out in the reverend's house cooking up some magic with Titub...

Get this: Ann Rinaldi has written over forty books. (Source.)A Break with Charity is super famous, and the American Library Association even put it on their Best Books for Young Adults list. (Sour...

This book is chock full of Puritans, so you can bet that steaminess isn't the name of the game with this lot. That doesn't mean there aren't a few kisses here and there, though, and there's a gal w...

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