Responsibility

Barry examines responsibility by using the team’s attempts at witchcraft as a device to show how each player struggles with responsibility in their own life. In general, team members use Emilio as an opportunity to test the limits of freedom without responsibility, which expands on the normal context in which teenagers are prone to doing this. For example, Julie Minh blames Emilio for her sexual feelings towards Brunet Mark, a boy she meets in Salem, which indicates that in Emilio she is looking for a way to escape the feelings of guilt her parents’ religion has enforced upon her. AJ Johnson uses one of the rituals the team experiments with as an excuse to incite chaos with an anonymous letter; believing that she saw the shape of a pen in an egg white dropped into water that Julie Minh says is meant to predict the...