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This story 's Author: Elizabeth George Speare had been happily born on November 21st, 1908, in Molrose, Massachusetts. Though she sadly died in November 15th, 1994 one of the books she wrote in her life was The Witch of the Blackbird pond. The main character of the story is Kathrine but she goes by Kit, she is young and very wonderes girl with a rich grandpa. Only to lose both her wealth and her grandpa because of the death of her grandpa. She sadly had to move because of her grandpa 's death. Kit had to sell the property to move to America to live with relatives who thought she was just visiting. Kit had to leave her home by a boat called the Dolphin all the way to America. There the story begins with its main setting,being Wethersfield. The story begins with Kit, Kit is young and new to being so poor. Katharine 's life takes place in 1886,through some bad events: consequently also known as her …show more content…

Kit meets Hannah through all of her sadness when Mr.Wood told her she could not keep most of her cloths and must look poor"for God." Some of the other events are Kit loses all her wealth and her grandfather so she moves to Wethersfield. When at Wethersfield she meets a lady named Hannah who everyone in town believes to be a witch. Then Hannah helps Kit with wise words and makes her feel better when she loses some of her fancy clothes from her bags because of Matthew Wood. After all the events near the end of the story Hannah skips town,ordinarily do with people believing she 's a witch. Throughout all my reading I found my favorite part. It was on page 97 In this event Kit meet Hannah the Witch by the Blackbird pond, it was during her time in need too. She was so lost in thought because, she had a problem with her new life, and Hannah helped her even though she did not know Kit. And that is why it 's my favorite part of the book. It was helpful to Kit and made her feel like she wasn 't alone in the

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