The novel The Raging Quiet, written by Sherryl Jordan, depicts the ignorance, suspicion and prejudice that people feel towards other individuals who have done nothing wrong. wrong except having committed an unforgivable crime. to be different from the rest of society. Arriving in Torcurra, the protagonist, Marnie, finds herself a stranger in this isolated seaside village. Alone in this place populated by unwelcoming villagers, Marnie befriends two other people, a local priest and a madman named Raven. Like Marnie, Raven is also excluded from this village. When people see the growing relationship between him and Marnie, false accusations are immediately made about them, which adds even more pain and suffering to their loneliness in this society. This story deals with the victimization of those who are different from others due to the villagers' superstitious beliefs and their fear of the new and unknown. After her forced marriage to Isake Isherwood, Marnie and her husband arrive in Torcurra as outsiders, and she quickly becomes a social outcast. Rumors and whispers descend on this couple when the villagers learn that they are occupying the lonely old house that was once the home of the witch who was burned during a witch trial. When Marnie went to the village market on the second day in Torccura, “[the market] was crowded and noisy, but the voices grew lower as [Marnie] approached. She felt curious glances and heard whispered comments. run” (47). Marnie also heard someone whisper, “They must be in great need of a solitary life to occupy this house” (47). The locals, filled with superstitions, could not accept the fact that Marnie and Isake live in an evil and cursed house once occupied by a witch. Already unhappy with her marriage, she felt even more gloomy and depressed by the hostile attitude of the villagers. The village priest, Father Brannan, who is the only welcoming person, points out to Marnie that “Most [of the villagers] have lived in this place for generations and they know each other's fathers and their fathers before them. They feel threatened by the newcomers. , especially people they know nothing about” (49). The villagers behave towards the new arrivals with ignorance and suspicion because they know nothing about Marnie and her husband. Then, sadly, just two days after her wedding, Marnie comes home to find her husband dead after falling from the roof..