Mary’s father is a prosperous landowner who employs an Irishman and a Black freedman as farmhands even though the community is prejudiced against nonwhite people. Mary’s mother is still grieving eight months after the tragedy and is having a difficult time moving forward with her life. Mary is haunted with guilt and blames herself for her brother’s death. Mary’s family has recently suffered a tragedy after her 15-year-old brother, George, saved her from being run over by a carriage but lost his own life in the process. Her best friend Nancy Skiffe is hearing, and the two communicate using sign language. Mary is a happy girl who lives in a loving family on an island where deafness is common. Mary’s ordeal in the outer world explores the themes of social hierarchies, the differences between the worldview of Martha’s Vineyard and Boston, and the various ways that deafness is defined.
In his quest for answers, he kidnaps Mary, intending to bring her to Boston to study her. Andrew is prejudiced toward people who are deaf and assumes they are intellectually deficient he also concludes that deafness is a disease. He intends to ferret out the cause of deafness by studying the inhabitants. The phenomenon of deafness on the island draws the interest of a young scientist from Boston named Andrew Noble. Martha’s Vineyard is unique because a large percentage of the inhabitants are deaf, and the entire community uses a local sign language to communicate among its members.
Her father is also deaf, and her brother and mother are hearing. Mary is deaf and lives on the island at the beginning of the 19th century. The story is told using first-person narration by the 11-year-old protagonist, Mary Elizabeth Lambert. The novel is set on the island of Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts and covers events beginning in November 1805 and ending in January 1806.
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