Rob Anybody, the big man of the Nac Mac Feegle clan of the chalk wants to follow her because it is his duty to protect her but he acquiesces to his wife Jeannie who is jealous of Tiffany (after all Tiffany was once temporarily the Kelda for the clan and engaged briefly to Rob). Her former teacher, Miss Tick, who is also a witch, escorts her to the town of Twoshirts. Tiffany, as represented when under the control of the hiver, demonstrates the attitudes, doubts and fears as well as the self-centeredness of the typical teenage girl.Ī Hat Full of Sky revisits the young witch Tiffany Aching, who is preparing to leave her home in the chalk country (based on England's South Downs chalk country) and learn witchcraft as an apprentice and maid for the elderly witch Miss Level.

Pratchett explores the questioning of identity through Tiffany's development as an adolescent and as a witch as she comes to terms with wanting to be part of Annagramma's group of witches but not wanting to become just another sheep within that group, while developing herself as a witch and taking control of her life (as well as her mind), when the hiver tries to take her over. Tiffany is on the brink of adolescence and is becoming 'more conscious of image' of both herself and the world. The central theme in this book and the followup The Wintersmith, is 'coming of age' which is coupled with all the associated ideas of that theme the question of identity, self sacrifice and responsibility.

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