Her prologue warns us that these events will have serious impact on her life. Literary elements at work in the story: Annabelle is the narrator of her story, giving hints of future outcomes and reflecting on the past at its conclusion. When Betty’s lies bring the law in pursuit of Toby, Annabelle hides him in their loft and plans a way to prove his innocence. McBride often sends Annabelle with supper to Toby’s shack. She has lent him a camera and takes his pictures, astonishing pictures, to be developed. Annabelle has a tentative friendship with Toby based on occasional – almost silent – encounters with him as he roams the woods and on photography. Sent to stay with her grandparents because she is incorrigible, Betty is a bully who threatens Annabelle if she does not bring her a present a liar who accuses the derelict veteran,Toby, from World War I of blinding a student with a rock which she has thrown a destroyer who accuses Toby of throwing her down a well. But this cruel violence was in the past Betty Glenncary is violence in the present. Summary: In a rural Pennsylvania community, 11- year -old Annabelle McBride walks a path to school through Wolf Hollow, a place where, according to her grandfather, pits were dug in the past to trap wolves and kill them, pups as well as adults. Publisher: Dutton Books for Young Readers
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