Witch Of Blackbird Pond Analysis

Throughout the novel Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare, Nat compares Kit to a bird in several occasions. Kit used to be like a tropical bird, but ever since she moved to Connecticut, she is changing into a dull-feathered sparrow. Although Kit may have turned into a sparrow, she still has some green feathers of a tropical bird. While Kit sees Puritans as plain and boring, Nat and other Connecticutians think Kit stands out too much.
When Kit first arrives at Wethersfield, she stands out like a tropical bird with bright green feathers among common birds. She is from Barbados and isn't meant to live in Connecticut, and Jamaican tropical birds aren't meant to live in Connecticut either. Kit wears fancy dresses, and brings a lot of other sumptuous clothing …show more content…
In fact, Kit had brought so much apparel that they filled seven whole suitcases. Contrarily, ordinary Puritan women like Mistress Eaton owned one small suitcase and wore shabby, homespun skirts. In the Puritan religion, wearing fancy clothing is disgraceful, while in Barbados, people strive to have the fanciest clothes. One day on an early Sabbath morning, the Wood family stood on the threshold of their house and, "Beside the plain blue homespun and white linen which modestly clothed Aunt Rachel and Judith, Kit's flowered silk gave her the look of some vivid tropical bird lighted by mistake on a strange shore." Later on in the story, while Kit and Nat thatch Hannah's roof, Nat says, “You know, once when I was a kid we went ashore at Jamaica, and in the marketplace there was a man with some birds for sale. They were sort of yellow-green with bright scarlet patches. I was bent on taking one home to my grandmother in Saybrook. But father explained it wasn’t