A Small Place | Teaching Key Figures

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

Narrator - This individual is a black, Antiguan woman who loves Antigua and its people. As a result, she is very ironic and sarcastic as she rages against those that she feels destroys her country.

Tourists - These people do not consider the hardships that Antiguans face daily as a result of living on this beautiful island, burdened with drought.

English - This group of people brought slaves to Antigua but are a pitiful lot after the fall of their slavery empire.

Native Antiguans - These people are the black descendants of slaves...
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