Through reading more of The Crucible, I have found that it is a rather strange book. It is centered around the idea that there are people that are possessed by the Devil. These people are called witches. Though this piece fits in to the category of Puritanism, it is unique in that it does not talk about the classic idea of honoring God through daily life, but it talks about Christianity in a different way by talking about how it is the duty of the people to eradicate anything that would be evil or that would defy God.
So far in my reading of this book, I can already see that it has a different type of topic to it than most other Puritan pieces. This made me realize that uniqueness exists not only between the different time periods of American literature, but also between individual works that make up a time period. I may include this idea in the next revision of my definition of American literature.
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