Characters from Necessary Losses

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

Art Buchwald - At an early age, after being bounced from foster home to foster home, this person decided that they must face the world on their own.

Sigmund Freud - This person believes that when we find ourselves in repeated patterns that seem to end the same way, we must have been orchestrating those events based on our experiences as infants.

Benjamin Spock - This person is an example of how we do not stop learning and growing simply because our lives are changing and our bodies are aging.

Leonard Zelig -...
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