Identity In The Witch Of Blackbird Pond

Based on what I have read in The Witch of Blackbird pond and Identity, these two stories approach the same theme which is being an outcast or not being the same as other people around them. This is because in Identity, it states, "I'd rather be unseen, and if /shunned by everyone/ than to be a pleasant-smelling flower/ growing in clusters in the fertile valley,/where they are praised, handled, and plucked by greedy, human hands," (stanza 15-18). These stanzas tell that they aren't the same as other people around them so they use plants as a metaphor. This is because it would make it easier to understand in this poem. For example, in Identity, it states, "I'd rather smell of a musty, green stench/ than of sweet, fragrant lilac," (stanzas 19-20). These tell that they

According to chapter 1 of The Witch of Blackbird Pond, it states, "'You must be daft,' the woman hissed. 'To jump into the river and ruin those clothes!' Kit tossed her head. 'Bother the clothes! they'll dry. Besides I have plenty of others,'" (page 9). This shows that even though Kit has some pressure going through the Puritan life, she tries to stay with her identity she has developed through growing up in Barbados with her grandfather. This is because she did not know that Puritans had such a strict life because she lived in Barbados. To add on to that, in chapter 18 it states that kit was being accused of witchcraft in court just because she was different and befriending another "witch" Hannah Tupper (starts at page 197) . This shows that kit is being treated differently just because she is different than other people. This is being occurred in "Identity" but Kit is just the "tall, ugly, weed" in Wethersfield. In conclusion, in The Witch of Blackbird Pond, it shows how kit was being treated differently because she looked different than everyone else in