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Reverend John Hale In The Crucible
Reverend john hale and I “Excellency this child’s gone wild.”is a quote that was said by Reverend John Hale in the story The Crucible. This was said right before he quit the court for hanging inacents. Reverend John Hale is a which expert that was called in to salem for there which issues.Reverend John Hale goes buy Reverend Hale and he end up doubting himself and quitting the court. Reverend Hale and I are similar in personality because we both are sympathetic,self confident, and rational. Both Reverend Hale and I display our sympathy in different ways. Reverend Hale displays his character trait of being sympathetic when he came back to salem after quitting the court and leaving town to talk to the innocent people being accused of witchcraft. He feels bad for them and doesn't want them to die, so he tells them to …show more content…
Reverend Hale is very rational because he starts thinking about the whole which suration and how highly respected people and highly religious people are geting hung for whichcraft.It dosent make sense and he knew they were incenit. So he quit the court and tried to get the people accused to confess because that would save there live.I am rational in a way when it comes to looking at cheap things or fake things.I was looking at this car for $1000 when normally they are $4000. The listing said the only thing wrong with it was that it had a blown head gasket. Which anyone could replace in a weekend.The more i looked at the car the more things were off, the car was crashed the alignment was off and the hood popped out on the right side with a small dent and there was a dent in the back. So i used reason to find that. I am also rational because at my old job my manager would tell me to do things that were not in my job description and i would tell her no because i'm not supposed to do those things. I used rationally to draw a line on what i can do and can't do according to

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