ATTENTION: DAN FRAZEE!

     On Wednesday, Mr. Bresnick gave us a chance to work in groups to fix our thesis statements for our essay. He put us in groups of two or three to discuss necessary changes that needed to be made in our thesis statements. I liked this idea because I personally needed helping starting and getting ideas for my thesis statement. I am not so good at writing them and this gave me a chance to get the help I needed.
      My group was Mitch Viall, Dan Frazee and I. Although we were in a group together, we each had different topics that we chose for our essays. Dan chose to write about Abigail William's motivation. Mitch chose to write about ignorance as a major theme in The Crucible . I personally chose to write about theme also. My theme talks about how people tend to ignore things that they do not want to believe is true.
 Some may not agree that this is the major theme and I would wish to hear other opinions. My examples for characters who represent this theme are Parris, Abigail and Proctor. Each character chooses to ignore the truth about reality because they cannot face it.
    Although my topic is a major theme in The Crucible, it is also a reoccuring theme in society. If someone does not want to believe a true statement, they tend to continue to ignore it to please themselves and some times others also. For example, when a person has a crush on someone who does not like them back, they try to ignore the fact that the person does not feel the same way. That example relates back to Abigail Williams who believes John Proctor is madly in love with her when truth be told, he does not.