If people had not just followed along with others, lying and accusing the innocent of witchcraft, in order to escape being accused of being a witch, more people would have thought that the trials were unfair and would have protested against them, therefore causing even more people to come earlier to the decision that the trials should be ended. This would have caused the unjust Salem witch trials to end earlier. All of this evidence shows that the theme of the novel “Witches! The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem” is that one should not follow along with what others are doing and thus to not jump on the bandwagon. This theme makes the novel a literary work because it is an important lesson that the characters and the reader learn and it connects the story to one main topic in the way that the reader obtains knowledge from
If people had not just followed along with others, lying and accusing the innocent of witchcraft, in order to escape being accused of being a witch, more people would have thought that the trials were unfair and would have protested against them, therefore causing even more people to come earlier to the decision that the trials should be ended. This would have caused the unjust Salem witch trials to end earlier. All of this evidence shows that the theme of the novel “Witches! The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem” is that one should not follow along with what others are doing and thus to not jump on the bandwagon. This theme makes the novel a literary work because it is an important lesson that the characters and the reader learn and it connects the story to one main topic in the way that the reader obtains knowledge from