Thunderball | 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

James Bond - He thrives on danger, and he is ill-suited to a life without it. When his boss sends him to Shrublands for a natural health cure, the reader for the first time sees that he could, in fact, adapt to a normal life.

Ernst Stavro Blofeld - He is characterized as a very cold man. When he kills, it is not in the heat of anger. Instead, it is through cold calculation. In this way, he exists as a foil to Bond's character.

Emilio Largo - He is described as...
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