Reading in the Dark | 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

Boy narrator - This character is intelligent, curious, imaginative, sensitive, inquisitive, and remarkably gifted.

The boy's mother - This character is weak and suffers greatly from depression.

The boy's father - This character has a reserved and compassionate character that resulted from having to take care of siblings as a young adult.

Grandfather - This character was a prominent local figure whose abuse of power led to the death of several people.

Uncle Eddie - This character's death is the focus of the storyline of the novel.

Tony McIlhenny - This character is...
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