V | 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

V. - This character is mysterious, appears in various incarnations such as an inhabitant of a German colony in South Africa, has a glass eye, a sapphire navel, fake feet, and hair.

Benny Profane - This character is a former sailor without a purpose who bounces around among jobs such as an alligator hunter in New York City sewers and is consistently attracted to socialites while working in the Catskill Mountains.

Rachel Owlglass - This character is a socialite from Long Island who owns a 1954 MPG, works at an employment agency in...
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