Something Wicked This Way Comes | 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

Will Halloway - At the beginning he is an introverted and thoughtful type. As the story goes on he becomes more and more part of the action and by the end of the story he is the hero.

Jim Nightshade - He seems to go wherever his gut feeling and intuition take him. In a sense, he is the dark side.

Charles Halloway - When the story begins, He is fifty-four-years-old and feeling alienated from life. He thinks that because of his age he can no longer connect with the joys of...
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