Jailbird | 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

Walter Starbuck - This character is roughly eighty years old and recently released from prison after being involved in the Watergate scandal.

Ruth Starbuck - This character is a Holocaust survivor who dies from obesity.

Mary Kathleen O'Looney - This character is the head of RAMJAC and a crazy, homeless communist.

Sarah Wyatt - This character was once aristocratic, impoverished, sexually frigid, and proper.

Leland Clewes - This character was betrayed by their friend and accused of being a communist and sent to prison.

Alexander Hamilton McCone - This character is a symbolic...
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