Witch Of Blackbird Pond Summary

After her grandfather’s death in 1687, 16 year-old Kit feels that she must leave and sail to the only relatives she knows of, her uncle and aunt in Wethersfield, Connecticut. She desperately travels there on a ship called the Dolphin, where she meets a gentleman named Nat. She and Nat have a very playful relationship, Nat always has a mocking grin on his face and Kit occasionally flirts with him on the boat. When she arrives in Wethersfield, Connecticut, she is taken by surprise at the dull landscape and endless fields. Kit meets her uncle, a strict and sometimes grumpy man named Matthew Wood, her aunt, a sweet and caring woman named Rachel, her cousin Judith, a picky and vain young lady who’s otherwise kind, and her other cousin Mercy, a

Question #2: In the book The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare, my feelings towards the character Matthew Wood changed throughout the story. At first I didn't really like him. He seemed unwelcoming to his niece Kit who had just arrived from a nine day trip on a ship. “Seven times he returned bending his tall frame to enter the doorway, and with wordless disapproval set down one after the other the seven trunks. (Speare 38) Next, he made fun of Kit’s clothes. On page 43 it says, “Her uncle regarded her with scorn. “No one in my family has any use for such frippery,” he said coldly.” (Speare 43) The last reason why I didn’t really get a good vibe from him was because he forbid Kit from seeing her friend Hannah. I understood why he didn’t really allow it because everyone in the town believed she was a witch, but he called her heretic which was rude.

One of the many things we live by, freedom, is the most important factor of our lives. Freedom also plays an important role in the novel The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare. In this novel, a young girl from Barbados named Katherine Tyler (shortened name Kit) moves to a small town in Connecticut, New England, because of the tragic death of her grandfather, and the fact that she has a pursuer that is twice her age. The only problem is, her aunt and uncle have no idea she is coming, so Kit surprises them upon her arrival. Kit is surprised about how much work she has to do, since she was so content on Barbados. Kit meets the “witch” Hannah Tupper and is later accused of carrying on Hannah’s forthbringing of witchcraft after she “mysteriously” disappears. Kit is sentenced to trial, and although she had absolutely no chance of being anything other than guilty, Kit came out innocent.

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In The witches Stacy Schiff starts off by giving accurate background information of what happened in Salem. Fourteen women and five men died in 1692 because of the witch trials. Then Schiff starts to get in to detail. In the village minister’s house, the two little girls crawled under the furniture it was a great hassle to get them out, they would make made silly noises, spread their arms out like wings and pretended they could fly. Betty Parris nine years old who was the parson’s daughter, and cousin Abigail Williams who was eleven years old. These actions were absurd hence they have always been exemplary children. Soon enough comments began to spread through Salem: The children had been bewitched. Then Clergymen started coming then the

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Abigail Williams, a vindictive 17-year-old niece of Reverend Parris, fancy’s her unrealistic future with John Proctor, a man of integrity. Her unconditional lust for Proctor causes her to perform demonic witchery in the woods, to venture (gain back) Proctors love. In need of rescue, Abigail deflects the incident in the woods and incriminates more than half of the town to

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Family and friends are vital for fitting in. In the novel, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Kit Tyler travels from Barbados to Wethersfield, Connecticut to stay with her aunt, uncle and two cousins. Kit is nice to her cousins but her Judith Wood, her younger cousin, does not like Kit. In this novel, Judith Wood, cousin of Kit Tyler, shows signs of being obstinate and callous, but is also spry.

The Witch of Blackbird Pond is a historical fiction written by Elizabeth George Speare. There are many themes throughout the book such as identity, home, religion, family, and judgment.

At the age of ten, most children are reliant on their parents for everything in their lives needing a great deal of concentration and concern. However, Ellen, the main character and combatant of the novel Ellen Foster, demonstrates a significant amount of self-reliance and mature, impartial thought as a ten-year-old girl. Ellen is a bantling even though she was not deserted, she was impoverished of a normal childhood. Her life as a child was immensely hard, physically and emotionally. She never had a mother or father take care of her through her entire youth. The recent mortality of her mother sends her on a journey for the optimal family, or anywhere her father, who had shown insensitivity to both she and her frail mother, was not. Kaye Gibbons’

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