Kit is
quite a well rounded character. Readers get to see all kinds of different sides to her
throughout the book, but one characteristic that remains true throughout the story is that Kit
is unafraid to meet a challenge. This stems from a few smaller character traits of hers. She's
willing to try things, she's stubborn, and she's impulsive. Readers get to see this side of Kit
early in chapter one, when we learn that Kit essentially refused to spend her sea voyage below
decks with the rest of the passengers.
Certainly she had
not spent the voyage groaning and retching like some of the passengers.
"You're not afraid of the wind and the salt, any- way. At least, you haven't spent
much time below.""Not if I could help it," she laughed. Did
he think anyone would stay in that stuffy cabin by choice?
Early in the book, Kit is presented to readers as somewhat materialistic. She has fancy
dresses, and she isn't quite sure what to make of the lack of stuff that the Puritans seem to
get by with; however, Kit learns to appreciate the simplicity as well. In fact, Kit shows that
she might even have a bit of a minimalist tendency. We see this in chapter nine when we are told
that she finds a sort of inner peace in Hannah's simple home.
"Tis a pretty room, she said without thinking, and then wondered how that could
be, when it was so plain and bare. Perhaps it was only the sunlight on boards that were scrubbed
smooth and white, or perhaps it was the feeling of peace that lay across the room as tangibly as
the bar of sunshine.
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