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The book "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare illustrates the transformation and enormous adaptations of youth to the surrounding world in the late 17th century. The action takes place in the New World when a young girl named Katherine Tyler moves from the exotic island of Barbados to the colony of Connecticut. There, she infects everybody with her enthusiasm towards life, and Puritan society knocks the childish and naive thoughts out of her head. But before Katherine’s personality undergoes its full transformation, she meets a fearful and shy girl by the name of Prudence. She not only teaches the poor girl how to read and write but also valuable lessons about life. As the result of interactions with the main character Kit Tyler and some other people such as Widow Tupper, Prudence transforms from a frightened, hesitant and distrustful girl to self-reliant and intelligent individual. The first step towards Prudence’s metamorphosis occurs when she meets Kit on the b