Characters from A Language Older Than Words

Character Descriptions

This section provides a short description of all the major characters in the book. This can be printed out as a study guide for students, used as a "key" for leading a class discussion, or you can jump to the quiz/homework section to find worksheets that incorporate these descriptions into a variety of question formats.

Characters

My Father - A socially respected, wealthy, and deeply religious lawyer who beat and raped his wife and children behind closed doors.

Viktor Frankl - A former prisoner at Auschwitz who concludes that there are only two races of people - decent people and indecent people.

Yanomame Indians - A tribe of Indians, many of whom were shot when they tried to protect their land against mining prospectors in Venezuela.

Jim Nollman - A man who has spent a great deal of his life studying the way animals communicate with each other and...
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