The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabth George Speare

Significance:

I chose this piece of literature first because it is a Newberry winner and a friend suggested it. Also people should know this story because it describes prejudice and how it can effect peoples way of thinking and their own beliefs. This book is valuable might help people become more tolerant of others.

Perspective:

This book takes place in 1687. I think the author wrote this book too show haw different their lives were in Barbados compared too Connecticut. The author wanted to show the religious intolerance of the colonists she also shows how sometimes people were killed for their religious beliefs.


Evidence:

The author’s argument is that not everyone has to think the same, you can be different in your own way. Ms. Speare wrote a book about a time in history where every thing was uncertain. The author points out that the colonists had conflicts inside a few families homes and outside their home like who went to the meeting and who didn’t, along with that who was loyal to the king and who was not.

Connection:

The religious intolerance still happens today in many parts of the world and even in some parts if our country. I have a connection because of what I have studied in history in the past about this time period. I have enjoyed and learned from historical fiction books in the past and this book will inspire me to read more. This story could have effected why the Revolutionary War happened because the colonists were still deciding whether to be loyal to the king or rebel.

Supposition:
The world would be different if the colonists hadn’t chose to rebel then we might still be ruled by a king and Queen. If Kit (the main character) had come to Connecticut in 2007 there probably would be no story similar to this one, because people don’t punish people that are witches. I this story had taken place in democratic system the main character wouldn’t have faced the problems that she had. Some assumptions that are being made in this book that witches have special powers and others disagree with that.