English Book Characters
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Esperanza | The main character; her name means hope. She promises to never forget where she came from; was raped. |
| Nenny | Esperanza's younger sister. Esperanza looks out for her. |
| Lucy | Racheal's sister; dumb |
| Rachel | is Lucy's sister; also dumb |
| Esperanza's mother | wants Esperanza to go to school, because she would have became something if she would have gone. |
| Marin | Waiting for luck to come to her; from Puerto Rico. |
| Sally | Esperanza's friend who abandoned Esperanza, and she got raped. Also she is abused by her father. |
| Alicia | Works hard to go to college because she doesn't want to work in a factory. |
| Louie's cousin | The boy who comes to their town with the new car that he stole; and was later arrested. |
| Antigone | Headstrong, not wanting to change ways, law of god; commits suicide with wedding dress. |
| Ismene | subordinate, bending, doesn't want to bury Polynecies, coward, reverts on decision later. |
| Polyneices | Dead brother, not buried because he opposed Creon |
| Eteocles | Antigone's other brother, who was buried. |
| Eurydice | Creon's wife; later kills herself |
| Creon | King of Thebes, pride is his tragic flaw, dynamic character, Sentenced Antigone to death |
| Haimon | Antigone's husband, commits suicide with Antigone, warns his father to change. |
| Oedipus | Antigone's father; has curse put on him. |
| Iocaste | Antigone's mother |
| Chorus | cannot interact with peole, say gods are more powerful than man |
| Choragos | Tells Creon you will regret this killing of Antigone; voice of reason |
| Julius Caesar (Caesar salad) | Just came back to Rome victorious in battle, power hungry, and arrogant, stabbed by the other senators. |
| Cassius | One of the senators in plot to kill Caesar; he sees right through people and sees their true motives. |
| Brutus | Senator that everyone loves, takes power once Caesar is killed, kills himself in the end |
| Marc Antony | Very loyal to Caesar; gets people to take his side and revolt against the rebel senators. |
| Casca | Dumb, used for comic relief, joins the conspirators, also sees through Caesar's motives for rejecting the crown. |
| Cinna (the sentator) | One of the conspirators, tells Cassius they need Brutus on their side to win the people's trust. |
| Decius | Convinces Caesar to come to the Senate by twisting his dream around |
| Portia (A feat of German engineering) | Brutus's wife, commits suicide after learning what Brutus did |
| Calpurnia | Caesar's wife, had dream about Caesar getting stabbed and blood gushing out. |
| Metellus | Goes to tell Caius to visit Brutus; later asks Caesar to bring back his brother who was banished. |
| Artemidorus | Wrote a letter that he tried to hand Caesar warning him about the conspirators; didn't work. |
| Lucilius | Imitates Brutus to confuse the enemy and redirect their attention |
| Soothsayer | Predicts the future; fortune teller |
| Ethan | Husband of Zeena, drives the narrator in wagon, enjoys science. |
| Zeena | Ethan's wife, very cranky, nursed Ethan's mom when she was younger. |
| Mattie | Ethan's true lover, convinces Ethan to go down sled with her. |
| Ruth (Varnum) Hale | Her and Ned are foils of Mattie and Ethan; daughter of Mr. Hale (timber). Tells narrator story at the end of Ethan and Mattie's tradedy. |
| Ned Hale | Ruth's husband |
| Andrew Hale | Ethan tries to get a cash advance from him for delivering the timber, father of Ruth Hale. |
| Jotham Powell | The hired man on the Frome farm |
| Denis Eady | The character Ethan is jealous of before learning that Mattie loves him too. |
| Narrator | Journalist who got stuck in Starkfield, wants to investigate more into Ethan whom she gets rides from to work. |
| Silas Marner | Old weaver who leaves Lantern Yard to come to Raveloe after being accused of stealing money. Finds Eppie. |
| William Dance | Silas's best friend from childhood in Lantern Yard; is betrayed by him. |
| Godfrey Cass | Married to Molly and had a child which he secretly covers up to marry his true love Nancy. |
| Dunstan Cass | Godfrey's brother who is able to take money from him because he knows about Godfrey's other marriage. |
| Squire Cass | Father of Dunstan and Godfrey; owns lots of land, throws big party |
| Nancy Lammeter | Godfrey's true love, b-e-a-utiful, and shy. Doesn't want kids. |
| Priscilla Lammeter | Nancy's sister is loud, brash, and outspoken. |
| Sarah | The girl that Silas was going to marry in Lantern Yard |
| Molly | Godfrey's secret wife, and Eppie's real mother; addicted to opium |
| Eppie (pen) | daughter of Godfrey and Molly, crawls into Silas's house, later marries Aaron |
| Dolly Winthrop | Visits Silas to convince him to go to church. |
| Aaron | Dolly's son who later grows up to marry Eppie. |
| Equality | Taller than everyone else, runs off after World Council denies his discovery of light, smart; different than everyone else, independent. (Prometheus-brought fire to man) |
| Liberty | The woman Equality falls in love with. (Golden one, Gaea) |
| The World Council | Group of world leaders who Equality goes to with his invention. |
| The Scholars | Group of thinkers who invent things, Equality really wants to be one! |
| Lepidus | Part of triumpharit with Antony and Octavion; Octavion and Antony don't want to share any land with him though. |
| Ender (who's he again?) | A third, who is accepted into battle school and defeats the buggers. |
| Bean (black or pinto beans?) | one of Ender's toon leaders, but they become friends; helps Ender defeat the buggers, very creative and smart. |
| Graff | isolates Ender on the launch so he will have to try his hardest to succeed. Interviews Ender before going to battle school. |
| Valentine ('s day) | Ender's sister who is too shy to be accepted into battle school. (Demontheses) |
| Anderson (cooper 360) | in charge of the battle school, changes up the rules on Ender. |
| Petra | First one to teach Ender how to shoot well. Ender breaks her later on in command school; leader of the Phoneix army. |
| Bonzo | The strict leader of the Salamander army, Spanish honor, almost tried to kill Ender. |
| Bernard | Boy who's arm Ender broke, became enemies from early on. |
| Stilson | The boy who picked on Ender on earth; find out later Ender killed him. |
| Peter | Ender's brother who is too cruel to be let in battle school, (Locke) |
| Dink | is the one who tells Ender that the real enemy at battle school are the teachers. |
| Dap (AKA: Mom) | The boy's mother at battle school. |
| Alai | One of Ender's friends, shalaam. |
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