Out of This Furnace | 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

George Kracha - This character arrives broke in America at the age of twenty-one.

John Joseph Dobrejcak - This character is the third generation immigrant in the story.

Elena Kracha - This character is the wife of the story's first generation immigrant.

Mary Kracha - This character dies of consumption in a sanitarium.

Zuska - This character immigrates to America and, eventually, reunites with a fellow immigrant in a Braddock butcher shop.

Joe Dubik - This character dies in a steel mill accident in 1895.

Mike Dobrejcak - This Hungarian character goes...
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