![]() The theme of this book is sacrifice, quite obvious from the title. Then the Faulkner family helped to end all of the witchcraft nonsense with the help of the state governor and all the innocent people were saved. Their mom sacrificed herself to save her two daughters, and she was pregnant so she would not be hung, making the plan good. ![]() They planned to accuse their mother of witchcraft so they could be let out of jail. They had previously made plans with their mother during one of her visits to them. Then, after months spent rotting away in jail, the two Faulkner girls get to have their trial. Eventually Aunt Elizabeth dies due to the harsh, wet conditions which made her develop an awful cough where she would cough up blood. While in prison, their mother and Uncle Henry, Aunt Elizabeth's husband, visit them every other day. They are taken to the gloomy, dark, smelly prison in Salem where it is full of rats, lice, and tons of other accused witches. ![]() ![]() ![]() Then, Abby's aunt, Elizabeth, gets accused of being a witch, and soon after ten-year old Abby and her twelve-year sister, Dorothy, are accused by their former maid, Sarah Phelps. At first, no body in Abby's family is accused. Two supposed witches come to Andover from Salem to see who in Andover is a witch, which gets the entire town in a bit of a frenzy, and neighbors accuse neighbors of witchcraft. The book The Sacrifice is about Abigail Faulkner and her family who live in Andover during the late 1600s, when the Salem Witch trials are taking place. ![]()
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