The novel, The Raging Quiet, written by Sherryl Jordan, describes the ignorance, suspicion, and prejudice that people feel towards other individuals who have done nothing bad except having committed an unforgivable crime of being different from the rest of society. Upon arriving in Torcurra, the protagonist, Marnie, finds herself an outsider in this remote seaside village. Alone in this place full of inhospitable inhabitants, Marnie makes friends with two other people, a local priest and a madman named Raven. Like Marnie, Raven is also shunned by this village. When people see the growing relationship between him and Marnie, false accusations are immediately made against them, which adds even more pain and suffering to their loneliness in this society. This story is about 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 strangers, and she soon becomes a social outcast. Rumors and whispers spread about this couple when the villagers discover that they occupy the isolated old cottage that was once the home of the witch who was burned during a witch trial. When Marnie goes to the village market on her second day in Torccura, "[the market] was crowded and noisy, but voices got quieter when [Marnie] got closer. She felt curious stares and heard whispered comments. It took all of her will, do not run" (47). Marnie also heard someone mutter, “They must be in desperate need of a solitary life, to occupy that house” (47). The residents, full of superstitions, could not accept the fact that Marnie and Isake lived in an evil and cursed house, once occupied by a witch. Already dissatisfied with her marriage, she felt even more sad 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 know each other's fathers and their fathers before them. Yes feel threatened by the new arrivals." , especially people they know nothing about" (49). The villagers behave towards the newcomers with ignorance and suspicion because they know nothing about Marnie and her husband. Then, unfortunately, just two days after the her wedding, Marnie returns home to find her husband dead after falling from the roof.