Friday, June 25, 2010

THE MAIN CHARACTERS OF THE WITCH OF BLACKBIRD POND

The Character: Main Characters
The Witch of Blackbird Pond By Elizabeth George Speare



LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOG CARD NUMBER: 58-11063
ISBN: 0-395-07114-3


1. Katherine [Kit] Tyler: Chapter 1 Page: 1/Page 6—an impulsive, headstrong sixteen year old orphan raised by her wealthy grandfather [now deceased] on his plantation in Barbados; flees to her aunt in Connecticut Colony to escape the clutches of an older man who wishes to marry her. Chapter 4 Page 47 [She tells her cousin Mercy]
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2. Nathanial [Nat] Eaton: Chapter Page 1 first mate of the Dolphin and the son of its captain: friend of Hannah, the old Quaker Woman; falls in love with Kit.
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3. John Holbrook: Chapter 1 Page 10: an earnest young Puritan Clergyman: falls in love with Mercy
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4. The Cruffs, a Family of husband, wife and child. Chapter one Page 6: Goodwife Cruff, is a scold and a bully Page 6/16: Prudence Cruff is underfed and abused. & Chapter Eighteen Page 198 Adam Cruff
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5. Rachel Wood: Chapter two page 20 Kit’s gray haired Aunt, worn out from years of hard work. [Her sister was Margaret Chapter 2 page 30]
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6. Matthew Wood: Chapter 1 page 11, her husband, a stern, fierce Puritan settler who opposes the rules of King James Page 61.
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7. Judith Wood: Chapter 3 Page 32: Kit’s beautiful, haughty cousin; at first, she loves John Holbrook Chapter 5 Page 57 but finally marries her true match William Chapter 21 Page 239
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8. Mercy Wood: Chapter 3 Page 32: Judith’s sister, gentle and sweet; lost the use of one leg as result of a childhood fever [perhaps polio] secretly loves John Holbrook Chapter 11 Page 122
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9. Reverend Gershom Bulkeley: Chapter one Page 12, Wethersfield’s long winded minister and doctor, a Royalist Chapter 6 Page 60

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10. William Ashby: Chapter 4 Page 41 Judith mention’s William Chapter five Page 57 & Chapter Six Page 65 Chapter 21 Page 239. Son of the wealthiest family in Wethersfield; at first he courts Kit but then falls in love with Judith.
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11. Hannah Tupper: Chapter Eight Page 91 a Kindly Quaker widow who lives in a tiny house by Blackbird Pond: suspected of witchcraft; outcast because she is a Quaker and does not attend Puritan meetings. Chapter Ten Page 10


Purchase THE Witch of Blackbird Pond & The Sign of the Beaver from
Amazon.com
View My Work regarding the sign of the Beaver
The Sign of the Beaver
http://jeannettestakeonlife.blogspot.com/2008/12/sign-of-beaver-ans-to-quiz.html
Study Guides PDFhttp://eolit.hrw.com/hlla/novelguides/ms/Mini-Guide.speare.pdf
http://www.glencoe.com/sec/literature/litlibrary/pdf/witch_of_blackbird_pond.pdf


The Genealogy
Mary Elizabeth George AKA Elizabeth George Speare
Source:
http://jeannettestakeonlife.blogspot.com/2010/06/genealogy-of-mary-elizabeth-george.html


The Parents of Elizabeth George Speare
Source:
http://jeannettestakeonlife.blogspot.com/2015/12/the-family-of-harry-allan-speare-sr.html

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