Because the context of what your speaking about is already given. Your just putting it into your own words.
I believe the answer is “can be”
I am not sure what section you are referring to but probably because the sun is a star.
Answer:
Rev. Parris was so fearful that the villagers will discover his niece and daughter were amond the girls dancing in the woods because, in the village, it was part of the rituals of witches to dance around fire in the forest.
As a reverend who had already made enemies that wanted to see him fail and fall, this information would be a great instrument in their hands because he would be labelled a hypocrite, a reverend whose family practiced witchcraft and yet he preached against it.
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