D’aron Little May Davenport

D’aron Davenport is one of the main characters in the novel. It is from D’aron’s point of view that the story is told. D’aron, whose name is also spelled Daron throughout the novel, is a boy from the small Southern town of Braggsville. Hoping to escape the backward culture of his small town Daron applied to and was accepted to attend the University of Berkley in California. Once there he became friends with a group who called themselves the 4 Little Indians. They’d given themselves that nickname after they’d attended a dot party with dots on their foreheads. Several party goers were offended by the dots and demanded the four remove their dots or leave.

Because Daron had a crush on Candice Chelsea, one of the 4 Little Indians, he couldn’t say no to her when she suggested they...