A Break With Charity Themes
Community
Community is all the rage in Salem. And in A Break with Charity, community also has a lot to do with religion. You see, in Salem everyone is expected to be a Puritan. So if you want to fit in with...
Choices
Watch out Susanna, you've got some tough decisions to make in A Break with Charity. Susanna gets caught in the middle of a bunch of witch madness in Salem, and this means she's got some seriously b...
Women and Femininity
Susanna is in that wonderfully awkward stage of life also known as her teen years, though back in the day teenager wasn't really a word. Instead, lasses were either a girl (a.k.a. a child) or a wom...
Fear
Were you as scared as us when Betty Parris started acting possessed? And were you shaking in your boots when the lying girls started naming townsfolk as witches? There's tons of scary stuff happeni...
Family
When there's a witch craze afoot, you can bet that family becomes even more important. Just take a look at the English clan—this family knows they need to work together in order to survive. And a...
Compassion and Forgiveness
Here's the truth about the Salem witch trials: they make this town go a wee bit bonkers. Okay okay, the town goes majorly bonkers. Once folks start accusing one another of being witches, it seems l...
Memory and the Past
We'd like to introduce you to a teen with the best memory around. Her name is Susanna and she's not about to forget anything about the Salem witch trials anytime soon. And when we say anything, we...
Lies and Deceit
If we've learned anything in A Break with Charity, it's that ifthere's one way to become super duper popular in Salem it's to start telling lies. And that's exactly what Ann Putnam's clique does, a...