Goodbye to All That | 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

Daisy - This character is the thirteen-year-old who someone offers to adopt.

Dick - This character is three years younger than another character whom he meets when they are both in the choir.

Laura Riding Gottschalk - See Laura Riding

Robert Graves - This character is the central figure of his autobiography.

Thomas Hardy - This character's international reputation was established by the five novels he published before the turn of the century.

T. E. Lawrence - This character was an internationally respected hero in the First World War, having mobilized the Arabs...
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