Ida B Character Analysis

Ida B is a different kind of child. She lives with her mother and father on a apple orchard. Ida lives simple. She is homeschooled due to an unpleasant first school experience and she loves life exactly the way it is. She often times goes out to the apple orchard to talk to the tree, who she has all given names. She converses with the brook and seeks advice from a wise old tree on the mountain. However, Ida B’s world gets turned upside down when her mother falls ill with cancer. Her mother and father aren’t the same anymore. They are both sad and tired. The trees all tell Ida B that something troublesome is going to happen. Later Ida B is struck with heartbreaking news. Her father is selling part of the apple orchard to make money to help pay for her mothers medical bills. If that wasn’t
Fun loving, carefree Ida B had now decided to be angry and cold hearted. She didn’t enjoy being this way and often had to try very hard at it but she was determined. Ida B refused to make any friends and refused to like her teacher, even though she did like her very much. She spent her days avoiding anyone and everyone. She finds out later that the part of the apple orchard they sold had been demolished and a house was under construction. In her creatively and angry mind she makes several posters advertising horrible (untrue) things and happening in the area to hang up all over the land. One day she is sitting in a tree watching the family look around and she realizes that it is a girl in her class, Claire. Claire and her younger brother begin finding all of Ida B’s posters and think they are funny, which is something Ida B found the exact opposite of funny. They got closer and closer to the tree she was in and by this time Ida B was boiling mad. She hopped out of the tree an began screaming at them, so much she made Claire’s little brother cry. Ida was even shocked at her own