Playing Beatie Bow Essay

Kirk was a happy young misfire who was cheery and enthusiastic towards her parents and life, until the sidereal day her father went off with a nonher woman leaving her and her mother (Kathy). Lynette precious nothing to do with her father so she changed her name to try and retrieve everything about him out of her life. afterwards wanting to be named after a witch she changed her name to Abigail, which her grandmother suggested.She went down to the park with her young succeeding(prenominal) door neighbours Natalie and Vincent, finding them playing a game called, Beatie Bow. After becoming very interested in a little female child that stood there watching them play (Little Furry Girl) she decided to follow her. This was after having a fight with her mother, when she told Abigail that she had been seeing her father again and that he wanted the two of them to move back in with him and live in Norway where his architectural job was located.Abigail did not take this news well She w ent for a passing game to cool off, when she once again saw the little furry girl and following her found that she had followed her back into her own time of 1873. She got tripped over by the Little Furry Girls father, then found herself at their house. Further into the novel the character Granny (Alice Tallisker) told Abigail that she was the stranger and had the reach. The gift came from the crochet on the top of her dress which enabled her to travel and heal.Later in the book it mentions that the crochet was made by Granny. She falls in sexual love with Judah, who was betrothed to Dovey, and realised firsthand what its like to love soulfulness but no be able to have them. This helped Abigail realise that she should not be selfish towards her parents and should let them have a second incident of a decent life and marriage. During the time that she was in the past Abigail fledged by being influenced by the people that surrounded her, the world in which she lived and the event s which occurred there.