![]() ![]() ![]() They move away from Salem at the end of the novel, which was a bit disappointing-it feels like the author decided to just back away from the issue. Deliverance reads her the diary aloud, which leads her sister to see reason. Remembrance can't read, so she suspects the worst. Interestingly, her sister says that maybe Deliverance is a witch, first because she refuses to go to the "examinations," and second because she finds Deliverance's diary. Deliverance refuses to be drawn into the insanity. ![]() Deliverance is highly intelligent as well as devout, so it will be interesting to see how she deals with all the insanity of the witch trials. When she first discovers the blank journal that she makes her diary, she wonders, "Am I looking at the Devil's book, where he maketh his witches sign their names in blood?.I did not dare touch the book with my bare fingers lest evil be given a straight path to my heart." She actually opens it with the tip of her shoe. It is "The Diary of Deliverance Trembly, Witness to the Salem Witch Trials." Deliverance-"Liv" for short, isn't that cool? and her sister is Mem, short for Remembrance!-is twelve. ![]() This is a book my ten-year-old daughter checked out of the library, and I picked it up last night because I finished the last of my own library books. ![]()
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