Her sense of justice is represented when she punishes people for making fun of her and showing that they committed sins. in chapter 7 she goes around to people's houses and made it look like the devil has been there and to expose to the public that they have committed sins.

4. When she goes around to people's houses and exposes their sins she develops a character outside of trying to live on her own and survive. In chapter 7 on page 43 it says, " the evil has indeed been here and has tempted our miller into theft! But let us deal with this threat mercifully." This explains who she is and how she is standing up for herself by putting a stop to the teasing.

Alyce's actions reveal that she is changing her identity to be less on survival and doing more good for the village. She developed a character. "Alyce even had a little time to herself, to wander and think and plan, to watch and learn from old Gilbert Gray-Head about the carving of polishing of wood, and to ask questions of the priest abouts sin and evil." (41-42). Alyce is realizing that she has free time and she is a person and now that she has all of the maslow's hierarchy of needs she is now come to self actualization and wants to stop the people who are committing sins because those people made fun of her.

Alyce was justified in unveiling the sins of the townspeople. Alyce did earn justice after the boys were taunting her because Will promised to stop taunting her after she saved him. "the redheaded Will, who threw fewer stones at her since her saving of him and sometimes stopped the taunting all together" (Cushman 41). This demonstrates that she's gotten justice since she saved Will.

This reveals that Alyce's sense of justice is given to her since she saved Will in chapter 6.

Evil because they feel good about taunting and picking on the weak, like Alyce. "Since this is not so, and the world is just as it is and no more, nothing changed. Most of the villages still paid no attention to Alyce at all. Some were mean, like Grommet Smith, near as big as a dozen Alyces, who would sit on top of the girl so Jack and Wat could rub chicken manure into her hair." (Cushman, 40). This shows what I mean about how the weak get picked on, because Alyce is still frail, like how she was before she was taken in by the midwife.

Alyce's actions reveal a change in her identity because she can feel more confident about herself and she thinks she won't be known as Beetle/Brat. "'Get out of my sight, Dung Beetle, before I squash you.' 'Alyce' 'What did you call me?' 'Not you, me. Alyce. My name is Alyce.'" (Cushman, 33). Since Alyce gave herself a name, she corrects people when they call her Dung Beetle or Brat, because she has pride in the name she gave herself.

Alyce was justified for unveiling the sins of the townspeople because it is not right that people were committing sins and nobody knew. Alyce helped reveal their wrongs. This also didn't directly reveal their sins because she never told anyone that this wasn't the devil

3. The villagers can be called evil because they all would commit sins in secret thinking there would be no consequence. on pg 47 they find something in the river and the text states "wood carved in the shape of hooves of some unknown beast". They think the devil is forcing people into committing sins but someone was really pretending to be the devil. The Hoove molds make Hoof prints to look like the devil. People weren't commiting sins because of the devil they were just commiting sins normally and thought there wouldn't be any punishment. They are evil because they were just commiting sins even though there are such harsh punishments. The miller commits a sin on pg 43 and the text states "The villagers agreed and so the miller who had listened to the devil did not have his hands chopped off". If they didn't think it was the devil he would have had his hands cut off yet he still commit sins.