Miles Halter-also known as Pudge: The book is written in his point of view so we can say that he is the protagonist of the book. He also has a special talent: he has that ability to learn famous people's last words such as politicians, writers, painters, musicians... Unfortunately he doesn't have many friends in his hometown. He is tall and skinny however his friends in his boarding school calls him 'Pudge'. Miles is very smart too, he tries to keep up with his classes; one of his favourite subjects is 'Religious Studies'. He likes playing video games and loves eating. He has a love interest in Alaska Young, one of the girls in his school. However lately in the story, he becomes Lara Buterskayas' boyfriend.
Chip Martin-also known as Colonel:
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She smokes, drinks wine, collects books from yard sales to read them one day (she says that she will have time to read them when she gets older). She is an attractive and mysterious girl but friendly at the same time. After her mothers' death, she feels guilty and blames herself so she starts to drink to escape from her suffering and her memories. She is very emotional and complicated too. She is attracted to Miles even if she doesn't admit it at the beginning. She is quite 'hot' according to Miles with her 'curvy' figures and emerald green eyes.
Lara Buterskaya: She becomes friends with Alaska when she is transferred to Culver Creek. (She is an exchange student.) She is from Romania and has a cute accent according to the book. She flirts with Miles since she likes him (she becomes his girlfriend but it's not a relationship full of emotions so they call it a pseudo-relationship.). She has a very daring character. She is blonde and really pretty (also flirty) too. She has an immature character but her friends love her the way she is.
Takumi Hikohito: He is a very good friend of Colonels' and Alaskas' so he becomes easily friends with Miles and Lara too. He is very good at keeping secrets and is interested in rap
She knew her family was never safe where they lived. She was a brilliant young girl, she understood more than most adults. Even though she wasn’t the richest or the best dressing girl in town, her heart for everyone
Characters: Their isn’t many characters in the book because they all get killed off except one. That person is Yanek. He is a very kind kid but desperate
Gene Forrester- The main character, from whom we get a first person account from in much of the book. Gene is best friends with Finny, whom he admires and envies for being an amazing athlete and a smooth talker. Gene is very intelligent and gets one of the highest grades at the Devon school. He is very adventurous and is often breaking every rule possible with Finny. One day Finny and Gene decide to climb a tall tree and jump into the river. When Finny is about to jump off of the branch, Gene wiggles the branch, causing Finny to fall and shatters his leg. When Finny is told that he may never be able to play sports again, Gene feels responsible and tries to convince Finny that it was his fault.
She obviously sticks out from the rest of the characters as caring and passionate and is often represented in a form of innocence. All in all, this rejection of her surroundings helps her become the best form of herself, but unfortunately, innocence often fails to survive in the
In the book Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson the character, Matilda Cook, who is also known as Mattie, is a fourteen-year-old girl, who lives with her family above a coffeehouse in Philadelphia. Her family consist of her mom, grandfather, a parrot named King George, and her orange cat named Silas. She goes through an emotional journey because she had to handle lots of things on her own, and deal with situations she has never thought would come upon her. However, at the same time she goes through a physical journey because the way she acts and thinks changes throughout the story. Also, she loses the stubbornness that she had at the beginning of the novel and gained maturity throughout her journey.
She’s very curious, intelligent and ambitious, she loves figuring out why things happen (ex. why some grasshoppers are yellow and others green, why dogs have eyebrows, how to trick earthworms into thinking it’s raining etc.) and she adores Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species. Throughout the book she had developed an unbreakable bond with her grandfather (her grandfather often ignores his other grandchildren) over nature and science. She dislikes the idea of housework, is awful at cooking, sewing and knitting. She would like to go to university and study to be a scientist.
Jeannette’s personality shows the most with her independence and maturity at such a young age. An early example of this is when she tried to cook a hot dog on the stove and accidently burned herself when she was only three years old. As Jeannette ages, she begins to see the world in brand new perspectives because of her experiences with different lifestyles and environments, such as living in the desert with hot temperatures, to living in the poorest neighborhood of Welch, to finally living in the ever-moving city life of New York City.
Very aggressive, cold demeanor similar to the bunkhouse. Always tries to find a reason to get mad like the train being late or Grandmother not making potato salad, etc. Appears to have a poor/uneasy relationship with her daughter, Beth. As noted by “I can’t bring myself to ask father about it, Ewen. I simply cannot do it.”… “There wouldn’t be much point in asking… when the
The characters in the book include of many people, both Greasers and Socs. To start off Ponyboy, is a fourteen year old boy that has a good build. Ponyboy has long, brownish-red, greasy hair and he has a gray eyes. Ponyboy is a greaser and loves to be with his friends. Ponyboy is really close with his brother Soda, but doesn’t get along with Darry as well.
Main character, protagonist, 12-14 years old, blond hair, dark eyes, foster daughter of Hans and Rosa Hubermann. She does not know how to read when she arrives at Himmel street and is distrusting. By the end of the novel she loves her friends and family and has her own set of morals.
Music with some stress occasionally and she likes to talk to people that are trustworthy to her. She deals with conflict by simply walking away. It complements the power she know she has over herself. Her close friends would describe her as thoughtful, caring, and dramatic. She listens to stories from strangers just to hear them out and assure they’re heard and cared for. She's soft in soft moments from movie scenes to actual real-life touching situations asserting her emotion in all ways. She’s also dramatic. When she’s dramatic it’s “over the top dramatic,” especially when the problems are simple. She’d choose to have mind reading ability out of any superpower. She would like to further understand the human mind. She also believes in spirits and demons and she’s interested in ghost topics. But she doesn’t believe in aliens or any other extra terrestrial organisms. She’s not that big of a science geek. Science is her least favorite class subject. Also we touched on world topics. If she could be anyone else in time she’d go back in time and be Dr. Martin Luther King. She’d be Dr. King to be one of the first black to step ahead to vocalize what was going on in a sad America. She wouldn’t change a bit of his role, she’d be him, serving the country no different that the real MLK did. To her, success is “accomplishing any desirable goals.” So she can see in her eyes that everyone is successful no matter what
Throughout the story, she matures and changes from a
There were many characters in this book. The main character in this book was Omri. Omri was a normal young boy who was interested in playing cowboys and Indians, and other games like that. His friend, Patrick, was interested in the same things, but Patrick wasn’t as nice and he was a bit bossy and pushy. He forced Omri into making a live toy for him. Omri had a brother named Adiel. Adiel didn’t like Omri that much and one time in the story he hid Omri’s cupboard because he thought Omri had taken his football shorts. Another character in this book was the headmaster. The headmaster was a very strict person, but he wasn’t unkind.
Introduction- Have you’ve ever sat down and read an Alison Goodman book or any book for that matter.. Well if you have, then you probably said,” Wow, this character is so cool, wonder what traits make him/her into what he/ she is now’. If answered yes, then this article is just for you!
She’s a manipulative liar that does anything to get her way which also leads a downfall with the other characters. She convinces the other girls to make false accusation and causes other innocent women to continue to the hysteria.