Elizabeth Speare

Kathryn “Kit” Tyler meets Hannah “Witch” and form a deep bond because they are both outcasts. Elizabeth George Spear 's irony is illustrated through a series of harsh comments, hypocrisy, and judgement from the towns people towards Kit and Hannah "The Witch”. In the beginning of the

Lily Melissa Owens, also known as Lily is the protagonist in the book The Secret Life of Bees. She lives in 1964 which is in also know and is turning 14. I feel sympathy for her because she has lost her mother when she was about 4 years old and her father, isn’t a nice person. He is mean and sets harsh rules for her and always tells her that her mother died because of her. On the other hand, Rosaleen, a black woman who worked at the peach farm which Lily’s father owned is like Lily’s mother.

I am too stupid to be a midwife's apprentice and too tired to wander again. I should just lie here in the rain until I die.” Her self esteem did increase, a lot. This happened in chapter 17 gets the choice to help Magister Reese with his widowed sister and wished to employ Alyce, take care of the new baby in Salisbury, staying with Jannett at the inn, or going off on her own. She thought to herself “ What to do?

Wollstonecraft was an English native was born on April 27, 1959 in Spanfields, London. Her childhood was a difficult one because her mom fell to the grave too early from her abusive father. At the age of 19 she sought a means of income to escape her father by established a school in Newington Green with her sister and best friend. A few short years later her friend passed and to deal with the grief she became a governess in Ireland. Although this position wasn’t for her and she returned to England to be an advisor to Joseph Johnson who was a publisher of radical texts in London.

“Second Chance Summer” by Morgan Matson is a realistic fiction novel telling the story of Taylor Edwards. Despite all she has going on in her life already, their family is given the devastating news that will change their future. Following that, they decided to spend their last summer together at their lake house in the Poconos. Being that the last time they had been there was five years ago, she comes back only to find herself stuck in the middle of lost friendships and relationships. The short, fun days as a little girl that she remembers are now long days spent inside.

The book Mosquitoland is about a troublesome young teenage girl who has a lot of family issues and was written by David Arnold. It was written in first person point of view by a sixteen year old named Mary Iris Malone or Mim Malone for short. The book starts off with Mary living with her father and new stepmother after her parent’s divorce. As a teenager, these major life changes do affect your behavior and emotions big time! Shortly after her parents split, Mim finds out that her mother is sick.

her husband ask her is there any problem. she said "No. I'm fine," "I'll be fine." that’s mean she now have someone to share the

Have you ever driven by someone’s house and wondered who the person was or what they believed? In the book of “The Witch of Blackbird Pond” a thoughtful, sixteen-year-old girl named Katherine Tyler (Kit for short) moves in with her loving aunt and selfish uncle, because her grandpa, who she was staying with, passed away! Living with her aunt and uncle was a much different experience then she had ever had before. She meets Hannah Tupper, who was a Quaker.

She uses the situation to improve her reputation in the town. While Mrs. Putnam is the witch in the shadows pointing fingers at everyone. She first wanted Tituba to help Ruth, who is her only child that survived, yet later on she ends up blaming Tituba for all of her babies dying. Mrs. Putnam is squealing to Reverend Parris that her babies died because Tituba allowed witchcraft in the

One of my favorite creative works is a book called Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt. I read the book back in the sixth grade and I fell in love with it instantly. The genre of the book is mostly fantasy and it also focuses about life and death. It is about a privileged girl named Winnie Foster, who ran away from home, meeting a family, The Tucks, who can live forever. Their secret is their own water spring supply in their

She has lost everything. Therefore leaving her with no hope. She begins to starve her self, stop drinking, and becomes very ill. Shortly after she took ill a ship came to the island, they had been kept on.

In the book, the crucible the main topic was about witchcraft. Parris is on his knees praying in the first scene facing his daughter who is on the bed unconscious. The rumor around was that his slave, his daughter, and his niece were in the forest dancing around naked with other girls. Abigail says they did not do witchcraft and that Betty simply fainted just because she got scared when she saw her father there. Elizabeth a woman who worked with Abigail at her home once but got fired has stopped going to church.

Edith Dircksey Cowan (1861-1932), social worker, politician and the first woman to be elected to an Australia parliament was born on 2 August 1861 in Glengarry, Western Australia. Her powerful leadership in overcoming the barriers of woman’s public participation in the 19th century was induced by her own personal tragedy. Cowan was the second child of original settlers Kenneth Brown, pastoralist and his first wife Mary Eliza Dircksey Wittenoom, a teacher; A well connected, pious and conservative family. She was able to live a joyful and uninhibited early childhood.

Abigail’s scorned hart leads her down a vindictive path. Parris is concerned about all the talk about witchcraft, because his daughter Betty has fallen ill. “Uncle, we did dance; let you tell them I confessed it- and I’ll be whipped if I must be.

Chapters 18­20 depict how something so special to you can be taken right out of your life. Often people can be taken for granted and such as with the time they give or the love they give. In these couple of chapters there was to be a bad hurricane. Janie and Tea Cake her husband had been warned they did not listen to the warnings and were eventually caught into the storm. This ultimately resulted in the loss of friends and houses along with the lost of Tea Cake her third husband which was bitten by a rabid dog and given rabies.