Susanna English Timeline and Summary

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• Susanna is a fourteen-year-old girl who spends most of her time missing her big bro and wishing she were included in Ann Putnam's clique.
• One day Susanna visits Tituba and learns a prophecy about William.
• When Susanna returns to Tituba's she sees Betty Parris acting super batty, which freaks Susanna out big time.
• Susanna's old school chum, Abigail Hobbs, is living in the woods these days, so Susanna visits her friend and ends up being threatened by Ann Putnam.
• When news goes around that Ann and her posse are acting possessed, Susanna confronts her. She realizes she needs to keep Ann's secret to protect her family from being called witches.
• Susanna hates the witch hullaballoo, and she hates it even more when her cute almost-boyfriend, Johnathan, thinks witches are real.
• Happily, Susanna and Johnathan make up when he realizes witchcraft is bogus. Together they visit one of the lying girls, Mary Warren, who wants to tell the truth.
• After the girls cry out on Mama English, Susanna confronts Ann. Sadly, Ann won't back down.
• When her mama is in jail, Susanna visits her and then moves in with Joseph and Elizabeth Putnam when her dad is arrested too.
• Susanna says goodbye to her family as her parents and sis head to Boston and she stays put at the Putnams's.
• At Gallows Hill, Susanna sees Bridget Bishop hanged, and she's feeling pretty horrible the whole time.
• Susanna goes back and forth about whether she should come clean to Joseph; eventually she spills the beans.
• Sadly, Susanna gets scared by a story that a witch is trying to hurt her brother, and because of this refuses to tell others what she knows about the lying girls.
• After Susanna meets this so-called witch named Mary Bradbury, she gets her head on straight again.
• Susanna tells her story to two dudes: Reverend Pike and Thomas Brattle. This story leads to some important anti-witch-trials letters.
• Finally Susanna gets to feel happy that the witch trials are over, though she's also sad since so many died.
• She is super stoked to see William again when he returns home.
• A few years later, Susanna marries Johnathan; they have two kiddos.
• In 1706, Susanna goes to her old meetinghouse to forgive Ann Putnam.