The Wretched of the Earth | 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

Frantz Fanon, MD - A black native of the former French colony of Martinique, educated in France and assigned to a French colonial hospital in Algeria at the time of the revolution. he applied his psychiatric insights to the colonial society and decided that the parasitic colonial system must be overthrown to permit the health of the native population.

General Bellounis - The French colonial military official in charge of maintaining law and order in Algeria, and in charge of leading counter-offensives to the rebels.

Karl Marx - The social theoretician and political...
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