Donna Morrissey has written an amazing novel entitled Kit's Law. The question is, however, what is Kit's law? As you read this story of a young girl's life you will recognize several laws that fall into place. Perhaps a more appropriate question to ask yourself would be what are Kit's laws?
             After the death of Kit's grandmother, her guardian, she sets a law in motion. The townspeople, with the exception of a few, are against allowing Kit and Josie to stay in Haire's Hollow. They want to ship them off to boarding schools and such. However, they mostly want the mother and daughter separated from each other. Kit will not stand for this nonsense. She works extremely hard to prove that she can keep them together. Her law recognizes that it is critical for the two to remain together. Josie is mentally handicapped and Kit is usually the only one who can communicate properly with her. She feels that if they are separated Josie might not make it. She needs constant care and attention from Kit, her daughter, not from some stranger. This is one of Kit's laws. In the end her justice rules and she sticks to her law long enough to keep them together in Haire's Hollow.
             One of the most obvious of her laws, to the reader, is that true love should prevail and allow her to be with the one she loves, regardless of the circumstances. Sid and Kit are madly in love and even marry. They are happy and her law hasn't even been considered, until the two find out they share the same father. Sid runs off at the thought of being married to his sister, leaving Kit behind to deal with her existing feelings for her brother/husband. I think that after this she decides that maybe she should follow what God would want her to do. There are facts to look at besides her law in this case. What would the townspeople think? Would life be harder for them? What if they had a child? Sid even makes a point that this is not a ti
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