Giles Corey holds within him a great reservoir of courage as well. His ideals and morals are supported by this courage. His courage can be seen in the first act as he stands strong against Thomas Putnam, a prominent figure within the community. Giles refuses to buckle. Unfortunately his courage did not become a benefit to him. This denouncement of Mr. Putnam brought down an accusation upon his wife. He then stands strong against the court and brings forth a deposition, written by him, to help him free his wife. Contained within this deposition was the testimony of an unnamed individual within the community pointing out Thomas Putnam’s malicious motives to accuse his neighbors of witchcraft and buy their land after they had had there land auctioned off by the local government. Danforth then turns to Giles and asks who this person was. With the knowledge that this innocent man would then be accused of witchcraft as well, the courageous Giles refuses to reveal this innocent man’s name. This direct defiance of the court took great courage, but lead to an accusation against him. He sacrificed himself for another, and there is no greater sacrifice. Believing that he would not get a fair trial, Giles decides to not plead “aye” or “nay” against the charges brought before him. He did this so that his land could be passed to his children, but the way they make accused individuals plead is by placing large rocks upon them until they plead. He suffered for two full days with only three mouthfuls of bread and water. While this unspeakable torture forced his eyes to be push from his head and his bones to break he did not cry out. The only words he spoke were, “more weight,” until he finally died at noon on the third day (__________). The courage taken to withstand such horrible torment is unspeakable. This man’s strength and courage can not be found on a tree, it is a deep seated courage which is too deep to be measured and too vast to be weighed.
Originally posted 2009-08-01 09:49:33.
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You have several paragraphs run together.
In the beginning of the paragraph I think you used courage tooo much. Then it sounds like from there you pretty much described how the story you read went, instead of giving more input on how you felt about the story. Another thing to think about is to not use such story statement sentences like “Giles refuses to buckle”; add more to that (why did he refuse to buckle, etc.) Hope this helps!
OMG! that is a fabulous piece of workmanship! fantastic! I didn’t see anything immediately wrong, but maybe some of the sentences are too short, and should be “dressed up” with adjectives/ descriptive nouns…other than that- it is WONDERFUL!! I had never heard of him before (true story, right?) very interesting!