The Devil In The Grove Sparknotes

The book “The Devil in the Massachusetts” by Marion Lena Starkey is based on witchcraft that took place in the 19th century in Massachusetts. It basically centers on Salem witch trials that take its dialog from genuine trial records; however, applies cutting edge psychiatric learning to the witchcraft mania. The writer additionally includes dramatization perspective into the book which strikingly reproduces the climate of compassion and dread that cultivated the abhorrent and enduring of this human catastrophe. The book “Devil in the Grove” by Gilbert King is based on the most vital American attorney of the twentieth century, Thurgood Marshall was nearly bringing the point of interest suit Brown v. Leading body of Education before the U.S. Preeminent Court when he got to be involved in a touchy and dangerous case that debilitated to change the course of the social equality development and expense him his life.

The concept of the word “devil” is used in two different ways by the authors of these two books. For the book written by Starkey, the concept of “devil” is based around the witch who does witchcraft and harms people as well as creates wrong perception of different things. On the other, for the book written by King, the concept of “devil” is centered on the four black boys who have been allegedly charged with raping a white girl. As it can be seen,

This similarity is based around the fact that victims in both the books have been termed to doing wrong deeds and for that they should be punished severely. During that era, the word “devil” was taken with extreme seriousness owing to which people of that time used to associate “devil-ness” to any act that was severely wrong and not acceptable by the society in any manner. Similarly, in the mentioned books, the act of witchcraft in “The Devil in the Massachusetts” and the act of rape in “Devil in the Grove” was taken with extreme