Blackbird Pond Characters

To begin with, the important characters in this book includes: Tj, his parent, and foster home kids. TJ is the main character who is used and abused by his parents. Even as young child TJ's parent treated him as an adult, but even though they abused him badly they still played

This is my book report on the historical fiction Black Duck the author is the one the only Janet Taylor Lisle. The story takes place in the 1920’s the time of rumrunners. The setting where these characters take place in is on Rhode Island Coast. This book has a very curious boy who learned some of the most interesting facts from his best resource a old man who witnessed everything that happened in the time he was most interested about.

At the start of the book, Nat and his fellow street urchin, Richard are aboard a ship named the Susan Constant headed for the new world. Among the other passengers looking for treasure in the New World was John Smith. One of the greatest explores in their time, but unfortunately his bothersome page, Samuel Collier, was also along for the ride. On the long ride over to their future colony, the boys encountered many things such as accused mutiny of the man that offered them this

Nanberry is the main character of this book. He is an Aboriginal boy who grows up the English ways. When Nanberry was young he lost his whole family to the disease smallpox. A doctor from the English colony, Surgeon White adopted the boy and taught him the English tradition, he cared for Nanberry as he was ill and injured, and he treated Nanberry as he was his son. Surgeon White changed Nanberry's name to Andrew however later on when Nanberry began to understand more, he preferred to keep his birth name. Living in the English colony was hard for Nanberry as he experienced many different emotions and opportunities. He also experienced racism and had a dream to become and sailor which he fulfilled because of his adoptive father. He later on sailed with his brother Andrew White to England so he could live with his father. When his time came, he was buried in the Australian ground.

The primary relationships of Huck with the Widow Douglas and Miss Watson as well as Huck with Pap and Huck with Jim are established. Throughout the novel, Huck takes on different identities to further his attempts at freedom. In this section three of these identities are seen. One is Huck, the dead boy when he “kills” himself in order to cover his escape from Pap at his cabin and the other is Sarah Mary Williams whom he disguised himself as when he attempted to get information and later George Peters emerges when Sarah is discovered to be a boy.

the young protagonist Huckleberry Finn does not have a good father, and as a result he finds a father in someone else. Huck Finn deals with an alcoholic abusive irresponsible father, Pap, who kidnaps and physically abuses him. In order to escape, Huck fakes his own death and runs away to Jackson Island where he encounters Jim, a runaway slave he knows from the house of his previous caretaker before he was kidnapped. Huck and Jim embark on an adventure on a raft and throughout the novel Jim evolves into the good father figure that Huck never had. Although, Huck’s biological father is Pap, Jim becomes Huck’s true father in the novel because he cares for Huck as his own by protecting him, scolding him, and passively teaching him what he can.

Darcy is the main character, Jamie is Darcy’s sister and Hakeem is Darcy’s boyfriend/ ex boyfriend, Tarah is her best friend. Copper is Tarah’s boyfriend and Liselle and Brain are brother and sister. Now you know everybody in the book. Every character in the book plays a very special part in it. They make the plot special and unique in its own way.

However, the following section will only contain the primary characters seen throughout the novel. These characters include Owen Meany, John Wheelwright, Dan Needham, Hester Eastman, Harriet Wheelwright, and Tabitha Wheelwright.

Act one begins with Reverend Parris praying over her daughter, Betty Parris, who lies unconscious on her bed. Through conversations between Reverend Parris and his niece Abigail Williams, and between several girls, the audience learns that these girls, including Abigail and Betty, were engaged in occultic activities in the forest lead by Tituba, Parris’ slave from Barbados. Parris caught them and jumped from a bush startling the girls. Betty fainted and had not recovered. During this session, Abigail drank chicken blood to kill Elizabeth Proctor. She tells the girls that she will kill anyone who mutters a word about what happened. The townspeople do not know exactly what the girls were doing but there are rumors of witchcraft.

The abuse of authority results in death and destruction. Reverend Hale uses his authority in the “crying out” scene at the end of act 1 to make the girls accuse innocent people of telling them to do the witchcraft. He gives the girls answers to choose from when he questions them and they confess to things that Hale makes up. When talking about the kettle Hale says,”Mr. Parris, you did not notice, did you, any living thing in the kettle? A mouse, perhaps, a spider, a frog-?”(42). Though there probably was no frog, Abigail pleads that she didn’t put it in the pot, but it jumped in by it’s self. Deputy Danforth threatens to arrest Giles Corey in contempt of court when court was not in session. Danforth then starts the court and continues to question Giles while they are in the lobby of the courthouse. Danforth’s annoyance with Giles ends up getting him arrested and later, hung. Since Abigail was now an official of the court, she would be thought to be telling the truth. In the courthouse Abigail puts on a show with the rest of the girls

The Widow Douglas and Miss Watson, sisters who adopt Huck, have a slave by the name of Jim who, on the outside, appears to be both unintelligent and foolish, as by the impression received when Jim first speaks, “Who dah?” (Twain 6).

The first character introduced in the novel is Aunt Hager, an older Christian Baptist woman who was once a slave. She is the grandmother and advocate of one boy named, Sandy and mother of three girls named: Tempy, Annjee, and Harriet. Aunt Hager, even though she was once a slave, throughout the book she shows sympathetic tendencies toward white people. On many occasions she defends how white people treat African Americans, explaining that they just don't understand or comprehend their horrendous treatment toward people of color. Although she defends white people, she has no problem in forming prejudice against her son-in-law Jimboy. Jimboy is

"Black Bird" utilizes many different types of humour, but in particular this novel is satirical, mocking human weakness and society, and morbid, dealing with misfortune and death with an often pessimistic outlook, and often ironic. And of course, Basilieres also makes great use of puns. In a humorous but ironic fashion, Basilieres makes fun of the Catholic Church through one character 's name, Father Pheley. Pheley is a pun

The protagonist, narrator and titular character, Huckleberry Finn, is the thirteen-year-old son of the town drunk. Despite his lack of education, he can be

Other Character: The cook: bails water from boat. Billie the oiler: steers and rows boat, is the only of the men that does not make it alive to land. The correspondent: Also helps steer and row boat. Injured captain: gives commands to the crew as he lies against the water-jar speaking with a low and calm voice. Unnamed people on land: Coat