The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
Week 4: Chapters 9–11 — The Meadows and Hannah Tupper
Read Chapters 9–11 of The Witch of Blackbird Pond.
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Kit discovers the Great Meadows and, within them, the most unlikely friendship of her life — pay attention to what Hannah Tupper gives Kit that no one else in the colony can.
Discussion Questions
8 questions1.The Great Meadows are described as a place of unusual peace and beauty in the otherwise severe Connecticut landscape. Why does this place feel like freedom to Kit, and what does it say about her inner life that she gravitates toward it?
2.Kit's first encounter with Hannah Tupper — the old Quaker woman the town calls the Witch of Blackbird Pond — is warm and disarming. What is Kit's first impression of Hannah, and how does it contradict everything the townspeople have said about her?
3.Hannah is a Quaker, which in Puritan New England was considered nearly as dangerous as witchcraft itself. What do you learn in these chapters about why the Puritans feared and hated Quakers, and how does this historical detail deepen the novel's exploration of prejudice?