Assignment Week Five: The Trilogy of The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina by Sarah Rees Brennan (5 points) (+5 for movies)

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    The book that I have read for this week was all of the trilogy The Chilling Adventure of Sabrina by Sarah Rees Brennan. This book I decided to choose for this week because I got bored in the show and was wondering if I could actually get into the series if I read the book. This theory I had was proven correct, I read this book whenever I would take a bath. Why? Because I wanted a spooky Halloween feel, with candles and everything. It definitely helped that my bathroom if already a witch and cottage aesthetic. Furthermore, I loved this book, from its teenage struggles to life or death situations it really brings you into Sabrina’s life.

                            The book itself has an immense female strength in Sabrina. From the beginning we are with her through school, relationships, and family. How she deals with her power and the drawn she feels towards others is what the strength was see in the beginning. It mostly seems like any other female protagonist, however, then seeing her powers and her position she is forced to make most of the hard decisions. When Sabrina is introduced, on the eve of her “dark baptism” and about to receive her powers, she takes issue with the “paradox.” Why should witches obey a man? This question causes her to push against the dark lord and fight him as the book and its series goes on. Thus the antagonist throughout the series is the dark lord and that Sabrina is the only one who can stop him, with the help of her friends of course. Even in the book series, Sabrina forms a women protecting women club to combat bullying.

Furthermore, this book embodies the legends of witches more from the past. How back then women were labeled as witches for just being independent, strong, and beautiful. For example, some witches in Salem were burned for not even being married or being very smart for a “women.” This however, shows from a perspective of real witches and how they still are controlled by a men of higher power. Thus, Sabrina is the main character, protagonist, and the embodiment of women empowerment for the entire time she is fighting for independence and control over oneself. 

              The movies that I have watched were The Blair Witch, Mary and the Witches Flower, The Witches, The Craft, and Kiki’s Delivery Service. Some of these movies I haven’t seen in a while, thus I had to re-watch to get a refresher on my mind. In watching all of these they all hit the aspects of witches that came from the past as well as modern times, with both the good and the bad. Witches are something that are real in many tribes and other religions for example Wicca culture and religion. Therefore, seeing all the aspects of witch folklores and the reality is great on storytelling aspects and film making.

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