What are some current world issues that seem to follow along with the idea of the witch hunts in the Crucible and from what you know about the McCarthy trials?

wheres the passage with the idiom underlined

the scene now shifts back to the shelby plantation in kentucky, where  aunt chloe  has just received the letter tom wrote her with little eva's . mrs. shelby tells her husband about the letter, in which tom says that although his new family is kind, he still longs to return to his "real home."

mr. shelby, in the meantime, has still been plagued by debt. mrs. shelby offers to raise money, especially so that they can buy tom. mr. shelby becomes angry, and his wife lets the unlikely hope drop for the present. chloe then calls for mrs. shelby and asks if she could be hired out as a pastry cook in louisville in order to earn money for tom. mrs. shelby gives chloe her blessing.

i am not christian so i cannot. this is such a racist and illogical question. you must not be christian too then? if y-o-u can’t write a paragraph about god.