A Jury of Her Peers
“…it seemed she couldn’t cross it now was simply because she hadn’t crossed it before” (203). Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters stepped into something without knowing the weight of it. Along with fear and uncertainty, the sheriff’s wife and an old friend, of the accused, Minni Foster, agreed to walk through the door of a lonely, cold and bitter house.To be ones peer it to be ones equal. Without the understanding of one to another, there is no common ground, and without a common ground there is no intuition. Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters are lost in their own thoughts, having troubles convicting Mrs. Wright for something as awful as murder. Sensing something strange about the house, the women try and justify what Mrs. Wright may have done to her husband. While going through and cleaning her pots and pans, the two women feel sympathy and some kind of loyalty to Minni Foster. Her fruit was gone, her sugar was half put away, her table half cleaned, no bird singing back to her from inside the broken cage. How awful it must have been to live there, with no company in the hollow. Unlike Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale, Minni Foster was alone most of the time; cleaning with torn rags, cooking on an old, worn out stove. With no ch
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Some common words found in the essay are:
Minni Foster, Hale Peters, Wright Throughout, Peters Hale, Jury Peers, minni foster, hale peters, bird cage, common ground, clues motives, 214 peters, peters hale,
Approximate Word count = 818
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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