The Puritan faith dictated much of the life of New England due to its widespread practice. Deviation from the religion and conventional practices in the church was dangerous to one’s reputation and wellbeing. The novel The Heretic’s Daughter demonstrates how religious values helped to shape the lives of the Puritans and shows how any different values would be treated. For example, on page eleven, Sarah’s grandmother tells her father in response to her parents’ unwillingness to going to the meetinghouse for the church service, “Thomas, I know of your differences with the parson. But this is not Billerica. It is Andover. And the Reverend Barnard will not brook absence from prayer.” In this quote, Sarah’s grandmother is explaining how by not going
