Independence Day | 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

Frank Bascombe - He is kind-hearted and has an earnest desire to help humanity in his own small way, through his real estate practice, his efforts as a father, and his reading to the blind.

Paul Bascombe - He and his father both share an obsessive need to catalog, analyze, and decipher their feelings, as represented by his concept of thinking about thinking.

Ann O'Dell - Her plight represents the plight of many wives, and the author uses her character to depict an emotion that nearly every human being has suffered: rejection.

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