Playing Beatie Bow Summaries

Playing Beatie Bow Chapter Summaries Chapter 1 Chapter 1 of ‘Playing Beatie Bow’ is mainly the introducing and descriptions of the character. The chapter showed the family situation and how it is not at its best state. It shows how Abigail Kirk the protagonist of the novel hates her father, Weyland Kirk. Her resentment towards her father is due to the reason that he left his mother, when she was ten, for another woman; Jan. Abigail chooses to change her name and doesn’t like being called pet names as she hates everything and blames everything about her father. She also has a bad relationship for her grandmother, shouting and always disagreeing with each other. You can see the bitterness between them where Abigail is changing her name from Lynette, ‘Grandmother smiled. Abigail could see quite easily that Grandmother thought it was plain and knobbly and awful, too. So that settled it’. However, Abigail’s relationship between her mother, Kathy Kirk, is great and she is described as a friend in the book.
Also in the chapter, other minor characters are introduced, Justine Crown, Natalie and Vincent. Justine Crown is only described as a person who did not ‘believe in housework’, but instead put the children first. Natalie, a four-year-old who gives Abigail ‘a solemnly protective feeling’, due to the reason that she was ‘prone to sudden fevers, nightmares, fears and had a kind of helpless affection for the frightful Vincent’. Vincent, the high-rise monster is described as a cheeky and cunning boy who hates Abigail more than anyone else and says she has ‘Dracula teeth’.
The game, ‘Beatie Bow’ that the children play at the playground is played where Natalie sees the little furry girl which is Beatie Bow. Justine Crown gives Abigail a crochet with the initials A.T. to use it on her green dress she is working on. Later in the book, this becomes an issue. Chapter 2 Chapter 2 is the chapter in which the plot starts to begin, where Kathy tells Abigail that she