The Puppets of Spelhorst

The girl is one of the five puppets, and while she is a relatively static character, she is an important one, serving as an underestimated leader within the group. She is the only one of the five who consistently maintains hope that the puppets will be reunited once they are separated. In the play that Emma writes, she represents Annalise, Spelhorst’s long-lost love.

The girl is the first puppet to capture the eyes of Spelhorst because she has “the heart-shaped face and violet eyes of someone Spelhorst had loved long ago” (11). These violet eyes are her most defining feature physically but represent something much deeper: her ability to see things as they really are.

Jane Twiddum notices this about the girl puppet when she takes her to the hill and tells her about her dreams. She tells the girl puppet, “And you are good at looking through them, ain’t you? Yes. Good at seeing. That’s what you are” (64). Jane is right about this. The girl puppet can see before anyone else that it’s important for the group to remain together and sees the potential in each of her friends before they see it in themselves.