Act IV: "A time you pretended to be something or someone you are not"

There is always that cliché of high school social life: pretending to be someone for someone else, whether it be a clique or a boyfriend or whatever. Freshman year I did, in fact, meet a boy. He was very sporty and athletic—something I am completely not. But it was a boy that was interested in me, and that, I can tell you, was a rarity. So what did I do? Whenever he talked about the Giants or Mets or whatever other sports team, I did my research and tried to keep up with his conversations, making him believe that I liked sports and the same teams as him, just to impress him and keep him interested. This can loosely be compared to The Crucible, as John Proctor admitted to being associated with the Devil, even though he never did anything wrong.

Act III "Write about a time when you were asked to "name names" or implicate others in a problematic situation"

During 6^th grade, prank phone calls were the “in” thing to do. I guess that I was in one of those middle school “cliques” and that was the thing that these cliques did—to the cute guys we were friends with, to each other, to who ever we could find! There was a girl who was, I guess, “kicked out” of our clique and on the last day of school, was our next victim. We were at one of the girls’ house and decided to prank this other girl who was not out with us, as she was not invited. I barely participated in the prank phone call, but was still held accountable, just like Mary Warren in The Crucible. I was called down by my friend’s mom and asked what happened upstairs and I told the truth about what my “friends” had done, like Mary Warren had done when Goody Proctor was charged with witchcraft and what she had told John Proctor about how Abigail and the others were merely pretending that they were under the “witch” and her spells. I had to tell the truth about the matter, and even though some trusts were lost between those “friends” I knew that I had stood up for a girl who did not deserve to be treated that way, like Mary Warren did for Elizabeth Proctor in The Crucible.