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PBHS lit characters
characters and plots in literature
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Simon Wheeler, Jim Smiley, and Dan'l Webster (the frog) | The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Twain |
| Paul Baumer, WWI, holds fast to vow to hold out against principles of hate and meaningless German classmates pitted against each other because of different uniforms | All Quiet on the Western Front by Remarque |
| shabby New York flat, Della sobbing, selling her hair for Christmas present for Jim | Gift of the Magi by O. Henry |
| O. Henry really was | William Sydney Porter |
| World Controllers have created the ideal society. Only Bernard Marx wants to break free, visits one of last Savage Reservations | Brave New World by Aldous Huxley |
| 1890s Klondike Gold Rush (Yukon); Stolen St. Bernard-Collie sold in to French-Canadians. Fierce Rivalry between Spitz and Buck. | The Call of the Wild by Jack London |
| Milo Minderbinder, Major Major; Capt. John Yossarian; Colonel Cathcart | Catch 22 by Joseph Heller |
| phantom dog of Dartmoor | The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ( |
| Is it not just for a for a man of genius to commit the murder of a despicable old woman pawnbroker that will ultimately benefit humanity? Raskolnikov | Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky |
| Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his delinquent son Absalom in Johannesburg; background of racial injustice, murder and reconciliation | Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton |
| Aldonza, he calls Dulcinea who does NOT appear in the novel, and Rocinante, his horse. | Don Quixote by Cervantes |
| "Old money" Lily Bart needs a husband to preserve her social and financial standing; impoverished Lawrence Seldon | The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton |
| Ashley and Melanie Wilkes, Tara is the plantation, Rhett Butler, Scarlett O'hara; burning of Atlanta in Sherman's march to the sea | Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell |
| peasant Wang Lung and the earth that sustained him; O-Lan (his wife) | The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck |
| Lennie and simple-minded George; drifters dream of having their own ranch | Of Mice and Men by Steinbeck |
| Marlow's search for Mr. Kurtz in the Belgian Congo | Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
| Adele with governess at Thornfield Hall; St. John Rivers, Mr. Rochester; Grace Poole | Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| Rosalie, Matilda, Mr. Weston, the Murray family | Agnes Gray by Anne Bronte |
| Cathy (Catherine) Earnshaw and Heathcliff (Thrushcross Grange) | Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte |
| David Balfour taken and held captive by his uncle who wants David's inheritance | Kidnapped by Stevenson |
| Queequeg, Starbuck, Ishmael, the Pequod, Captain Ahab | Moby Dick by Mehlville |
| 1930s, Chicago, young, black Bigger Thomas murders white woman; racism | Native Son by Richard Wright |
| Ministry of Truth, Newspeak, Oceania, Big Brother, Winston Smith | 1984 by George Orwell |
| Expelled from a Southern Negro college, moves to New York, works with the Brotherhood, learns reality of black life. Dr. Bledsoe, Mr. Norton | Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison |
| idea of the "overman" (Ubermensch); said "God is dead." author of Ecce Homo and Thus Spoke Zarathustra | Nietzsche (Knee-chuh) |
| Death in Venice, The Magic Mountain; Buddenbrooks | German novelist (Nobel Prize in lit) Thomas Mann |
| Thomas Mann work; decline of merchant family (based on own family) | Buddenbrooks |
| Mann work; engineering student visits Swiss sanatorium (cousin w tuberculosis); confronts medicine and ideological conflicts | The Magic Mountain |
| Mann novella; elderly Aschenbach obsession for 14-year old Polish boy Tadzio | Death in Venice |
| Rose of Sharon; dust bowl; Tom Joad family | The Grapes of Wrath |
| He is a bored St. Petersburg dandy; moves to country and meets Olga and sister Tatyana | Eugene Onegin (Pushkin) |
| American & British expats travel from Paris to Pamploma for running of the bulls and bullfights. Includes side fishing trip to the Pyrenees. | The Sun Also Rises |
| "Stream of consciousness" Leopold Bloom's life, Stephen Dedalus--loosely based on The Odyssey | Ulysses by Joyce |
| "Stream of consciousness" Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker, "quark" | Finnegan's Wake by Joyce |
| Collection of short stories by James Joyce; "The Dead" "Araby" | Dubliners |
| Semi-autobiographical work about the development of Stephen Dedalus; Moocow and Baby Tuckoo | Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by Joyce |
| Estella, the adopted daughter Miss Havisham calls her niece. | Great Expectations--Dickens |
| Orphan boy, Pip, and escaped convict, Abel Magwitch. | Great Expectations--Dickens |
| "Young Goodman Brown" (includes satanic ritual in the forest) | Hawthorne |
| Donatello in "The Marble Faun" | Hawthorne |
| "Dr. Heidigger's Experiment"--drinks an elixir of youth | Hawthorne |
| Emily Webb and George Gibbs in Grovers Corners "Blessed Be the Tie That Binds" | Our Town by Wilder |
| Siddhartha and Beyond Good and Evil | Nietzsche |
| Reverend Hooper in "The Minister's Black Veil" | Hawthorne |
| Blithedale Romance | Hawthorne |
| Leopold Bloom, Molly Bloom first serialized; Relationship between Dublin, Ireland and Great Britain; one of the most important works in modernist literature | Ulysses by Joyce |
| Edmond Dantes who whispers "one" into the ear of a corpse | The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas |
| Chateau d'If (the prison), Mercedes, Abbe Faria (Catholic priest) | The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas |
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