Week 5: The Raging Quiet

So, Marnie and Raven are basically in love, but neither of them wants to admit it. Raven wants to take Marnie to his "far-away home" and show her his dancing. When they get there, its just a field surrounded by a large circle of standing rocks. The townsfolk call this place "The Devil's Ring" and when they just happen to see Raven and Marnie dancing, their suspicions immediately believe the rumor that Marnie's a witch compelling the suposed demons inside Raven with her magic hand motion. They go to her house and wait until she returns. When she gets back, the townsfolk give her two options: Come to them quietly, or they would burn her house, and force her to come along. Reluctantly she goes, telling Raven to run far away. The townsfolk tightly binded her hands and put a sack over her head. Marnie is going to be tried for witchcraft. she's taken to the church, and Father Brannann did the best he could to get the townsfolk to stop, but they all think he's under Marnie's spell and won't listen to him. The people want Marnie to be tested by walking nine paces, with a hot bar of iron in her palm, it must be wrapped in a holy garment with the seal of the church on it. If in three days its starting to heal and is clean in, she'll be proven innocent. If its fustering and infected she'll be proven guilty and burned at the stake. She ends up doing it and is innocent.
The townsfolk still hate her even though she's innocent. Father Brannann suggest that she moves away with Raven and possibly get married to him. So after think about this for a while, they do get married (aww cute!!). Right after their marriage, Marnie goes to talk to Peirce because she's interested in selling the house that he's so interested in. He tells them that he wont need to buy the house because in his fathers will it says that the widow of an Isherwood inheirits her husbands belongings, but if she marries before tens years after her husbands death, she loses the inheiritants. They run back to the cottage, but about halfway there, they were stopped by some kids who had just put a black cats blood all over Eilis's grave, the supposed "witch" that lived there before Marnie. They said that they were going to burn the cottage down to get rid of the evil there. When Marnie and Raven get back to the cottage, they pack up all their stuff and get ready to leave.
On the road heading out of Torcurra, Peirce stops them. He starts talking about how naieve Marnie is that she didn't know about treasure there. The treasure ends up being the ugly ring they found in chimeny when the tree fell over from the storm. Its worth a small kingdom. Suddenly, they see black smoke and Marnie remembers what the children said and tells Peirce that the house is on fire. Father Brannann frantically runs up to them shouting that their house is on fire. Marnie doesn't care because its not her house and now she can buy just about anything she wants because she has Eilis' Treasure, the thing that brought her here.
I think that this book is about predjiduce and ignorance. I really can connect with this book because a lot of people hate me and love me for the fact that I am different. I really liked this book.