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The Witch of Blackbird Pond
The Puritan community that Kit joins when she comes to live with her aunt’s family in Connecticut does not readily accept anyone of a different faith background. Even so, there are some who would...
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond
This is somewhat of an odd question as William does not appear during the trial in chapter 19. Chapter 20 highlights this fact by flatly telling readers that when William came to call on Kit in...
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond
The final two chapters of The Witch of Blackbird Pond move quite quickly through multiple months of time. When chapter 20 begins, Mercy is just finally healthy enough to get out of bed, and Kit and...
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond
After Kit is accused of being a witch, the town authorities take her into custody and then put her on trial (chapter 19). Her friendship with Hannah Tupper is associated with the mysterious illness...
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Kit first notices Hannah Tupper's house in chapter 8. Judith tells Kit that Tupper is the only person that is stubborn enough to live in the meadows, and Kit discovers that most people think that...
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond
In chapter 12, Kit tells Nat that she feels like she doesn’t fit in since moving from Barbados, the tropical island where she grew up and had a lot of freedom, to the Puritan community of...
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond
In chapter 11, Prudence tells Kit that her father wanted to send her to school, but her mother said she's "too stupid." However, Goodwife Cruff's reasons for keeping her child out of school go...
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Initially, William Ashby is a staunch Royalist, which is someone who is a firm supporter of the British monarchy. It's not altogether surprising that he should feel this way given that his family...
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond
When Kit first stumbles upon Hannah Tupper’s isolated residence, the elderly woman sees that the girl is drawing solace from the landscape. She tells Kit that in that location, there is always a...
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Initially, Prudence Cruff is a weak and timid child. Lacking in self-confidence and subject to verbal and physical abuse by her alleged parents, she fades into the background, unable to connect...
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Prudence Cruff is the daughter of the inappropriately-named Goodman and Goodwife Cruff. This revolting pair treat their daughter like dirt, constantly abusing her both physically and mentally. When...
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond
For textual evidence regarding this question, I would look at the first half of chapter 6. The first half of the chapter focuses on when Reverend Gershom Bulkeley and his student John Holbrook...
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond
I believe that this question is asking when was Kit expected to teach school. Kit and readers find out in chapter 8 that Kit is being encouraged to help Mercy teach school. She finds out when Mercy...
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond
I believe that this question is asking about events that begin in chapter 9. This chapter begins with Kit and Mercy starting to teach school at the Wood's home. Kit is not nearly as patient as...
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond
I believe that this question is asking you to come up with your own words to describe the weather in this chapter rather than using a word that the chapter already provides to describe the...
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Elizabeth George Speare’s historical novel The Witch of Blackbird Pond is interwoven with various forms of conflict, both obvious and subtle. In fact, conflicts drive the plot, and through their...
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Kit first realises that her uncle holds some kind of important position when, on her way to Wethersfield, a man tells her that Matthew is well known along the river. Later, Kit finds out Matthew is...
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond
At the end of chapter 14, Kit and Judith return home to find Rachel looking anxiously up and down the road. She tells them that Matthew had gone to Hartford with some men and that there is a big...
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Without a more specific page or chapter reference, I can only hazard a best guess as to which time this question is specifically referring to. More than likely, this question is asking about...
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond
I believe that this question is asking for information that can all be found in chapter 7. Near the end of chapter 6, Kit and everybody else is shocked to find out that William Ashby wants to come...
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond
John doesn't just like Mercy; he loves her. And it's not hard to see why. There's something about her that makes her the kind of person that people immediately fall in love with. To paraphrase the...
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond
In Elizabeth George Speare’s novel of Puritan colonial New England, Hannah Tupper is the titular witch—or such is the townspeople’s accusation. Kit, the nickname of Katherine Tyler, is an orphaned...
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond
At the beginning of the story, Kit was rather naive about people's ways of life. She believed that her life in Barbados was the norm with servants to help in life's daily tasks, freedom to worship...
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond
You've asked how Kit is received when her aunt Rachel finds out that Kit has come to live with her. Thanks for your question! In fact, her aunt Rachel has several reactions to Kit's arrival on her...
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond
In chapter seventeen, a fever spreads throughout the children of Wethersfield. None of the town's standard remedies seem to help like they usually would. The fever has to run its course. Judith...
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond
A reader should look to the end of chapter sixteen for information regarding this question. The initial reaction is shock and dismay. Kit, and others, can not believe that John Holbrook would leave...
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond
In this particular context, bewitched simply means "cursed". During its nine-day, forty-three mile journey from Saybrook to Wethersfield, just about everything seems to go wrong for the Dolphin....
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond
When given a quote such as this one, the first thing to do is to make sure that you understand the syntax of the sentence. Perhaps the most confusing section - syntactically at least - of this...
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Kit loves the Great Meadows, those green, wide open spaces that remind her of home. Very little else in Connecticut is reminiscent of Barbados, so this is a sight for sore eyes. It's also a place,...
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond
The setting of The Witch of Blackbird Pond is Wethersfield, Connecticut in the 1680s. This New England town is a Puritan settlement, and though the settlers are trying to make the best of a...
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond
In chapter 7, William and John spend some time with the Wood family. During the visit, William's talk of building a house leads to a political discussion among the men. William's position is that...
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond
The Reverend Gershom Bulkeley was a real person—an early graduate of Harvard College and son-in-law of its president, Charles Chauncy. Like his character in The Witch of Blackbird Pond, he was an...
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond
A reader should check in chapter 17 for solid textual evidence regarding this question. Readers are told right at the start of the chapter that Kit is healing nicely, and she asks Mercy for some...
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond
A symbol is a device in literature that is representative of something other than itself. There are many symbols in the novel The Witch of Blackbird Pond, written by Elizabeth George Speare. One...
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Matthew agrees to let Kit go to church in the clothes she brought from Barbados. When Kit arrives in Connecticut, she has a difficult time assimilating into the Wood family. Though Rachel is her...
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond
In the novel The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Kit is originally living in Barbados but has to move to Wethersfield, Connecticut after the death of her grandfather and an attempt by an unsavory and...
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Hannah Tupper is one of the few characters that Kit really finds a connection with. That turns out to be troublesome for Kit, but it fortunately works out in the end. Hannah is a dangerous friend...
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond
When the novel began, Kit was materialistic, carefree, and naive. She was accustomed to a spacious home in an established town. Kit wore fine clothes and shoes. Part of the reason why she...
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond
After Kit is arrested and tried for witchcraft and the charges against her are dropped, William comes to call at her home. He stayed away during Mercy's illness out of consideration for the family,...
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Because Kit has moved to New England from Barbados, an island in the Caribbean Sea, it is appropriate that the Shakespeare play that she and Nat discuss is The Tempest, which takes place on a...
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond
The term “whited sepulcher” is used when Matthew complains about having Reverend Bulkeley in his house. He gives the following rant: "He is a hypocrite and a whited sepulcher!" Matthew's fist...
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Did you mean about each character or the characters in general? I will answer based on all the characters in general. The characters run a gamut of personality types. At one extreme is Goodwife...
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Most novels have many themes. The Witch of Blackbird Pond is no exception. You can find key themes by reading the novel. What are some ideas that are shown throughout the book when you read it?...
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Kit felt guilty about many things. She felt badly that she was not better at cooking when Judith and Mercy were sick and she had to do the food preparation. She also did not like violating Uncle...
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Kit did not tell the Woods that she was coming to live with them, and she had never even met them before she showed up at their door. The Woods would naturally be surprised to see her. Also, Kit...
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond
The charter is hidden during a meeting by a group of colonists including William Ashby. A charter is a contract, similar to a constitution. The charter is very important to the colonists. It...
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond
While Kit is trying to save Hanna from the mob the people in the community go to Hanna's home and Kit sees it burning. Kit gets Hanna safely on the boat and she returns home to find that her...
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Dr. Gershom Bulkeley is a Loyalist. As such, he is loyal to the King of England and upholds the idea of colonial obedience to the crown. He is rewarded for this loyalty by being made a justice of...
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond
I take it you are referring to when Kit arrives at her Aunt and Uncle's house without informing them that she was planning on staying with them for good. The answer to your question can be found in...
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Katherine Tyler (also known as "Kit") is the main character in the novel. The Witch of Blackbird Pond is written in the third-person; therefore, our narrator follows Kit closely throughout the...
