Personal Narrative: Rebecca Nurse

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Rebecca Nurse and I “She is one foot in heaven now.” Referring to Rebecca Nurse. This was said by Elizabeth Proctor because Rebecca was going to hang that morning but she was not going to hell she was going to heaven. Rebecca Nurse is an honest truthful woman. She had 11 children and of all things she was accused of murdering Ann Putnam's babies and accused of witchcraft. The first personality trait that Rebecca and I share is that we are both caring. Rebecca was a very well known for being a good christian women.She had good deeds that were known from Salem the whole way to Beverly. She would never lie about anything no matter how bad the consequence. A time that I was considered caring was when one of my good friends was feeling down so he texted me and asked for my …show more content…
I was very busy at the moment but I didn't care because that was one of my best friends so I was obviously gonna be there for him. He had to make a decision that could change his life forever. He wouldn't tell me what in specific but I told him no matter what he was going threw I would be there for him. Another time that I was caring was when I was at my farm with my family and my Grandmother was getting hay for our horses. If you don't know hay bales are very heavy surprisingly. I went up to her and took the hay bale off her hands because that is a lot of tension and stress on her body. She was very grateful that I had helped her. Honesty is another character trait that Rebecca and I have in common. Everyone around Salem and some in Beverly knew how honest Rebecca was. She was a christian woman so she told the truth no matter what she did not lie. Rebecca was accused
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