I did a little more research on the Puritan religion so that I can have more of an understanding while reading The Crucible and the House of the Seven Gables also Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.  In class we were focusing on Puritans, and in our discussion I began thinking that Puritans were like the Jehovah's Witnessess in many ways.  I didn't understand why people would believe that God already had a list of selected people in which he wanted in heaven.  If that were the case, why would God, since that was who they believed to be the creator, create people who he knew would do things that wouldn't get them into heaven?  Why would he mix the evil minded people that were "following" the devils and his ways with the godly people who were good and followed the Bible's word of law?  I could understand the fact that not all people get into heaven, but I also thought that they believed the world should be peaceful in a way that was excepting to God.  Yet God created the people that he knew would oppose his followers?  What did they believe to be the purpose of that?
conversion
repression
sympathetic to needs
no music? a dreamy state
only taught reading to younger children