Charlie Kowalske Crucible Paper
        The sun was shining and students filled the classroom. It was another beautiful day at Stevenson High school. Many minutes later the film finally loaded. Today the class was watching The Crucible. Everyone was excited and eager to start. Mrs. Roberge and Ms. Vanhorn shared with the class how interesting the movie would be. Some of the students wanted to watch the movie, while others were preparing to take a quick snooze. Charlie Kowalske was one of those students that wanted to watch the film. The movie begun and heads started to sway, however the majority of the class had their eyes peeled to the screen ready to learn. The teachers taught the class what really happened during the Salem witch trials, so the class was super ready to watch The Crucible and see if the motion picture was like the real life events.

Opened eyes filled the classroom as the students started an adventure in time. The film was The Crucible. The motion picture was intriguing from the beginning. Speaking of beginnings, the first scene started in a dark, scary forest. The director included entertaining scenes like this one throughout the beautiful film the class watched during class. Right from the beginning the interesting, yet scary movie, caught the attention of everyone. The movie started in the woods, different from the play, with the girls going out with determined minds. They wanted to get boys to fall in love with them, but suddenly they randomly started screaming. Then one of them got naked and the scene was over dramatic. This is different from the real Salem witch trials because as this could have happened, the scene was extremely unlikely.  The crazy scene was blown out of proportion. Also another thing was in the film Abigail Williams stole money and ran away. In real life she would never be able to get away with stealing all that money. Most likely it would have been in a safe, thus she didn't have the power or skills to retrieve the coins. In real life if this event was actually true she would have been forced to stay in town because she had no way out and this would have changed many scenarios that played out throughout the movie.

A movie can never really show what real life was like and the class knew this going into the movie. I knew this motion picture wasn't going to be exact, but the interesting film was quite off. The first thing that was noticed was there were only three judges. In the trails there were ten judges and to go from ten to three was quite ironic. It was ironic because if you wanted to make it look like real life why didn't they just keep ten judges? Keeping ten judges could and would have been the easiest thing about producing the movie. Another item I noticed was the child faking being passed out on the bed. In real life all you would have to do is tickle them and they would wake up or they were actually possessed. People were annoyed at this point. However, don't get people being annoyed mixed up with them enjoying the movie because the film was enjoyed from start to finish. The film was entertaining, educational and had a little spook in it. The last thing that was noticed is right at the end, before they were hanged, the three of them started saying the Lord’s Prayer. While they are saying the prayer, the officials that are carrying out the hanging, continued on their way with murdering them. Many people wouldn't know this, but in real life, during the trials, the “witches” would never have been hanged while praying. If you were in fact a witch, then it would have been impossible to pray, therefore when they started to pray and were still hanged, the scene started to make no sense. All in all, if the director wanted to portray real life events, he should have hanged them without the three of them praying.

In conclusion the movie The Crucible really brought an end to the learning of the Salem witch trials. In class Mrs. Roberge taught the class that in America, people came over and lived in Salem. Soon they started accusing their own people of witchcraft and Salem went down from there. Ms. Vanhorn had the class read articles about the Salem witch trials. Watching the movie concluded all of the learning that was done in the past three weeks. It was sad to learn that the movie wasn't like real life because it would have been interesting to learn what really happened by seeing it in a video form. However, the movie was entertaining and still educational. The fact that the movie was more of a fairy tale than real was disappointing, however everyone still enjoyed the motion picture.