Name a character and the book they are from that has stayed with you and why.?
Name a character and the book they are from that has stayed with you and why.?
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Name a character and the book they are from that has stayed with you and why.?
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, read over 10 years ago,(forgot name of leading character)
The narrator is unnamed, but the primary named character is Phaedrus.
“News of the World” – the character was “Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd”.
@Diane That was a very enjoyable story.
Read that recently. Really very good book.
I loved it!
Fezzik from “The Princess Bride.” The giant with a heart of gold who found the meaning of life in true friendship. I named my Newfoundland puppy after him.
Louise in The Trumpet of the Swan. His drive to bring honor back to his father.
@Babett – I just listened to this book read by the author- a real treat!
Becky Peters Stutzman yes! I played his audio for my PreK class at nap/quiet time. EB White is an incredible author. I wish Trumpet of the Swan would be made into a movie like Charlotte’s Web & Stuart Little ?
Charlotte in Charlotte’s Web- a true friend!
Miles in Staggerford by Jon Hassler. A little know novel that I loved!
Heidi – because she felt out of place, and because she longed for the touch of nature.
It will forever be Scout
Death in “The Book Thief”…he showed empathy and compassion…I am haunted by the book’s last page, and especially the last sentence
Quoyle in Shipping News. One GoodReads reader commented on E. Annie Proulx‘s “tricky, tricky” writing and character development.
The Count in a A Gentleman in Moscow. He was smart, funny, perceptive, flexible, and kind. He also grew as a character and became more so on all counts.
Jane Eyre, in the book of the same name, because she was the definition of bravery: doing the right thing even though it was the hard thing.
The March Sisters…I named my daughter, Meg but it was for all the sisters.
Scarlett O’Hara because she is smart, independent, hard working, and true to herself. She’s also flawed, which makes her even more interesting.
Emma Graham Hotel Paradise Series
Samwise Gamgee, Lord of the Rings. A true friend.
Wolf..The Stand. His ability to experience joy and his loyalty
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, from the series by Louise Penny. I always think back to his four sentences that lead to wisdom: “I’m sorry.” “I don’t know.” “I need help.” “I was wrong.”
Anne Shirley from Anne Of Green Gables. She always seemed to be looking for the good in people and in situations. I try and apply that to my life.
I keep a running note in my phone with books and movies that touch me. After three years of keeping the list these still move me. You might see a theme- The struggle to be a man is real!
Books and Movies that Touched Me
A Man Called Ove fredrik backman -Ove
Beartown fredrik backman Us against You – Benji and his sisters
Any Human Heart william boyd – Logan Mountstuart
In the Woods tana french Rob
For Whom the Bell Tolls Robert Jordan
Rust and Bone french movie
North Face german? movie
The Sea Runners ivan doig driving narrative style
Brokeback Mountain movie Ennis
Pride movie
Outlander – Lord John Grey
A Tale of Two Cities Stanley Carton
Life is Beautiful
Barkskins. Annie Proulx Story of unintended consequences that moves like a forest fire
Curious incident of the dog in the nighttime. Autism
Rules of Civility Katie Kontent, Tinker,
Wallace
Nice list and a good idea. I loved “Life Is Beautiful” and “A Man Called Ove.” I’m going to have to think about if I have anything significant to add.
Colonel Brandon from Sense and Sensibility: an unappreciated, under the radar hero. Nick Carraway from The Great Gatsby: another under the radar character, the fifth wheel wherever he is, someone everyone but Jay Gatsby overlooks and takes for granted. And Charlotte, the true friend, the invisible hero of Charlotte’s Web. Who cares about spiders?
Dent, Arthur Dent “The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy”.
Funny, lovable, fumbling Arthur Dent
Barbra Havers from the Langley Mystery series of Elizabeth George. I can empathize with her foibles and insecurities including her way of handling them. I like her.
@Christine, she’s my choice, too.
Jamie and Claire from the Outlander series. But really all of the characters are so well drawn that they are not characters in a book, they are friends. If I’m away from them too long, I have to go back to reading the series to check in on them. LOL. 🙂
Jane Eyre..just because!!
There are so many. But I love Owen Meany. Heroes come in all sizes!
@William. Loved Owen. ❤️
Corey Mackinson from Boy’s Life. Robert McCammon wrote this character beautifully and Corey’s story made me love everything about him.
Lorna and John from Lorna Do one by Blackmore. They beat the odds and ended up with each other.
Ellie Haskell, The Thin Woman, bc Ellie changed physically, but still saw herself as she was, while her accomplishments & confidence spurred her on to do change the substance of her life too. A series I always enjoy reading.
Mma Ramatswe, #1 Ladies Detective Agency, bc she is bold & smart, & clever.
Mma Ramatswe and Atticus Finch are alike in their decency and goodness. Two characters to emulate.
@Dee I ❤️ Mma Ramatswe!!!!
@Dee I love the Ellie Haskell books, especially the first few!
Lisbeth Salander from the girl with the dragon tattoo.
Pippi Longstocking, Precious Ramotswe, Flavia De Luce, Miss Marple, Lisbeth Salander, and Granny Weatherwax – among many others.
Will Traynor in Me Before You. He lingered and lived in me for months. I couldn’t let the character go. The decision he made…
A month after we read that book, we were still talking about it at work… that speaks volumes.
I truly love that book. I loved both Will and Lou. His decision was heartbreaking , and to me, brave.
Molly Weasley from HP….cuz she’s a badass who will fight for her kids.
Atticus Finch – To Kill a Mockingbird – he took a stand against the odds and taught his children real values for living
Ellis Peter’s Brother Cadfael-wise and compassionate.
Anne Shirley from Anne of Green Gables. She felt more like a friend than a character in a book.
What Alice Forgot, Alice; now I often wonder what my younger self would say about my life now. Probably make a few comments on all of that wine. ?
Edmond Dantes from count of monte Cristo his character felt real to me and that you felt his pain as well as his joy in the story
Atticus Finch, he was an upstanding citizen and a wonderful family man!! To Kill a Mockingbird
Mr. Fezziwig of A Christmas Carol. “It isn’t that,” said Scrooge, heated by the remark, and speaking unconsciously like his former, not his latter, self. “It isn’t that, Spirit. He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil. Say that his power lies in words and looks; in things so slight and insignificant that it is impossible to add and count ’em up: what then? The happiness he gives, is quite as great as if it cost a fortune.”
Mr. Fezziwig is love incarnate, a life dedicated to an open heart and an open hand for those in your realm.
Long live Mr. Fezziwig!
Mark Watney from The Martian. His unwillingness to give up despite his almost certain demise. His ingenuity, intellect, calmness and sense of humor while he battled to survive utterly captivated me.
Scarlet O’Hara because I was sixteen at the time when I read it and I just loved it. Also Lisbeth Salander love her character wish I could handle a computer like her and of course defend my self and others lol ?.
@Norma Scarlett is my favorite character also for her perseverance and I was also 16 when I read the book for the first time. Needless to say I have reread it too many times to count ?
Georgia Tann…Before We Were Yours…… she really existed…… pure evil
@Susie rick flair was part of the Georgia tann adoptions
Kate Morton….the distant hours and the forgotten garden…
loved the forgotten garden.
@Sally disappointed in the Clockmakers Daughter
@Susie I haven’t read that one. I think the next one I will read by her will be the Secret Keeper.
Scarlett O’Hara. No quit in that woman!
@Linda Tomorrow . . . is another day
@Cathie. “I’ll think about it then…”
Donald “Sully” Sullivan- Nobody’s Fool by Richard Russo.
Oh, so glad to see someone mention this book! Have read all of Russo but think this was his best! Unforgettable.
@Rebekah I agree. After reading this I felt as though they were my friends. One of my favorites.
Bruno and Shmuel from The Boy in the Striped Pajamas because ???
Yes–those little boys haunt my dreams. All those people–OMG NEVER AGAIN
Yes. Never again!
Jo March. She didn’t take shit from anyone especially despite her gender. She is a writer, a reader, a teacher, a mother, and a wife. All things I’ve become as well.
Jude and Willem (in fact Harold as well) from A Little Life… (Hanya Yanagihara)
@Tammie I loved that book but most especially Willem. I cried when he died and I wanted him to come back. He was such a wonderful and generous and gentle friend, so willing and patient to let Jude open up and love him back. He gave and gave and never held back. I’m crying now. What a great book.
@Elia ohhhh yes! How very true. I found myself so drawn to Willem and his human goodness. He was so honest and raw. At first I almost thought it couldn’t last between he and Jude yet Willem was so willing to accept other people exactly where they were and thrive on all the positive moments in life, however small. I literally finished the novel today. I have a feeling inside like I have never had before. I don’t know how to approach my days knowing I won’t have the little life window to peek in. What a profound novel … the lessons on what it means to be truly human in all its polars and parallels will stick with me forever. It will be hard to ever find another novel that made me feel the gambit of emotions as this one! ?❤️
Majime in the Great Passage by Shion Miura has stayed with me as he is so much like me. Quiet, loves words, a subtle but lasing love relationship.
Jude. A Little Life. Anyone who has read it will know why.
Reading now
Holden caufield catcher in the eye. When he talks about Robert Ackley. We tried calling him rob or Bob nothing fit irs Ackley. His wife will call him Ackley
Leeds from Dragonriders of Pern. I love her indomitable spirit and determination to succeed.
Loved, loved, loved The Forgotten Garden ! Am waiting for Christmas to “receive” The Clockmaker’s Daughter… bought it as a gift for myself??
I simply loved Forgotten Garden! I know I read it twice. I have Clockmakers Daughter. We are heading to South Florida. I have it with me and will start it when we get in!
Don’t forget Sydney Carton, the falling down drunk attorney who makes the ultimate sacrifice.
Hermione Granger.
Why do y’all do this to me? Haven’t heard of some of these or either haven’t read them, and now I need to! Anyway, Robinson Crusoe.
I don’t know if I can choose just one. There’s Francie in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird. Sam Gamgee in The Lord of the Rings.
@Phyllis I haven’t read “ATree Grows in Brooklyn” heard it’s great. Your take?
@Mary It gave me a different perspective on a part of the world I was familiar with — Brooklyn. And the main character is a quiet girl who loves to read, but in a different time and circumstance. So it was familiar and yet very different.
@Phyllis thanks…sorry I didnt reply. Not feeling well , so I am in and out of sleep
Ifemelu in Americana, I find myself wondering what she’s doing now. All of the regulars in Three Pines (Louise Penny), the March sisters, Lenu and Lila in Elena Ferrante’s series.
@Mary so loved Ifemelu.
Christopher Tiegens – Parade’s End by Ford Maddox Ford
Fr Arthur Breen from Faith by Jennifer Haigh
Heathcliff Wuthering Heights
@Pamela, Kathy, “I am Heathcliff.”
Rudy Steiner from The Book Thief. Who doesn’t want a friend like him?
Shelly from The Luckiest Girl by Beverly Cleary. ❤️ I don’t know why though. ❤️
I’d say “Bigger Thomas…from Native Son by Richard Wright.
Alice in Still Alice – I identified with her so much and it scared the crap out of me.
Ove – such a lovable curmudgeon
Eleanor and Park in Eleanor & Park – an unlikely pair and first love
Francie from “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn “.
@Jill never read it… Please share thoughts
@Mary It’s an excellent book mostly about a young girl,Francie Nolan, growing up in Brooklyn in a poor,hardworking family in the relatively early 1900’s. Francie adores her dad who is a small-time entertainer and a dreamer. She also loves to read and learn, and her dad encourages her in this. Francie loves her entire family, immediate and extended, and all of these characters and their points of view are lovingly developed and maintained throughout the book by author Betty Smith. I know that Francie made a great impression on me because I was 12 when I first came upon this book in the. Maitland Junior High School library in FL. During my 35 years of teaching school, I always told my students that reading could open the world to them, show them anything and take them anywhere. Now as a retired teacher and revisiting this book at this point in my life, I realize I was actually quoting Francie (Miss Smith). It’s a beautiful book and was also maxe into a movie, nominated for Best Picture, starring John Dunn, Dorothy McGuire and Joan Blondell. Please read the book. I think you’ll reallly like it!
@Mary One if my all time favourite books ?
Jean Val Jean in Les Miserable. I’m 82 and was in my twenties the first time I read this. It changed the way I look at crime, punishment and what is justice. Ari Ben Canaan in Exodus, had the same effect.
Olive Kitteridge was hysterical. Reminded me of myself at times.
Childhood book: Heidi. Loved my own grandfather who lived alone, dug his own well for water, family was from Switzerland. Would have loved a lifestyle like Heidi’s.
Isherwood “Ish” Williams from Earth Abides. He fought so hard to maintain his idea of humanity in a post apocalyptic world.
Doc from Cannery Row. Oh to walk a mile in his shoes….
April Saltz-York: I always thing of Cannery Row in tandem with Sweet Thursday. If you haven’t read Sweet Thursday, treat yourself. Wonderful book.
@William, I have. Love them both! Have you read Travels With Charley?
No. There are gaps in my Steinbeck reading. If you enjoy Steinbeck have you read William Kennedy (Ironweed; The Albany Trilogy), or McMurtry (two of the most disparate books from one author–Lonesome Dove and The Last Picture Show)?
@William, I will check them out. Go read Travels With Charley!
Thanks!. If you read The Last Picture Show, go rent the movie. One of the most iconic American Movies, with a groundbreaking cast of “relative” unknowns, who later became huge stars. P.S. I’m a “Baby-Boomer” and was “treated” to a lot of great movies during the sixties and seventies that actually dealt with human interaction rather than just things blowing up or people getting randomly shot.
@William, I’m not quite a baby boomer but was fortunate to have a Mama who instilled me with the love of classic movies and books. I just ordered your suggestions and can’t wait for them to be delivered. By the way, have you read any of Jon Hassler’s books?
@April – No, I’ll have to put him on my list. I’m knee-deep in Middlemarch right now, so it may be a little while. Thanks
From ‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time’, Christopher has earned a special place in my heart.
Ove, A Man Called Ove.
Ellen Foster, Ellen Foster
Lucy Gayheart in Lucy Gayheart by Willa Cather
The loveable grieving nerd narrator of The Dogs of Babel. One of my favorite unreliable narrators. “It’s hard on the nose.”
Oh, I loved the Dogs of Babel! It was so very heartbreaking but somehow hopeful too.
@Margie I agree. I wish it got more attention than it has.
Christy in the book Christy by Catherine Marshall. Read it as a child and have never forgotten her. Wonderful story.
She also wrote a book A MAN CALLED PETER. There was a movie made from the book..true story..
Those are both such good books by Catherine Marshall.
I named my daughter Christina because of this wonderful book.
@Beverly Not sure you noticed my last name – but it also came from this book. 🙂
@Rebekah absolutely my favorite book. Of all time. I read it every couple yrs and have recently found a group who goes where Christy went in Tenn. Some things still there. Where she taught. So glad someone shares this favorite with me!!!!
Of course, Fairlight Spencer
Rush That Speaks from Engine Summer by John Crowley. He sets out to become a saint, which in his world is someone who tells the story of their life so well that your own life, and the universal human condition story, are revealed as well. It’s a gorgeously written coming of age story, and I found it in high school, when I was coming of age as well.
Francis Nolan – A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
Mariam from A Thousand Spendid Suns reminds me of how a life can be determined by fate of time, place, and gender. She is strong,weak,fearful,brave and terribly unfortunate yet resilient. One of my favorite books of all time.
@Michele Me too! The ultimate loving sacrifice!
I read it to my high school students and recently my son ran into one of them and she said I was her favorite teacher because of that book. I always say, No one hates to read but they just havent fround the right book yet.
@Michele my heart broke for her.
Claire Fraser from Outlander. Even when the odds seem stacked against her the most she finds a way to triumph, like when with the help of the men from his clan, she manages to pull Jamie out of Wentworth Prison the night before he is supposed to die.
Nearly all of the witches in the Mayfair family from The Witching Hour, by Anne Rice. She wrote each of those characters so well, that I have ‘re-read it a couple of times over the years.
Try “A Discovery of Witches,” by Deborah Harkness.
@Carolyn the All Souls Trilogy is great, and she recently came out with an additional book Time’s Convert.
Kelly Face Really…haven’t seen that one. Surprised my sister didn’t mention it. She is a most devoted fan.
@Carolyn it just came out. I’ve just started seeing it at Walmart…
Oh yeah…love her…but that Lestat…vampire, such an imp
@Fern That’s Anne Rice, Hon.?
@Carolyn i love the Wolf books as well,,,,, such wonderful imagination, that woman
I will re-post what I wrote last week… Scarlett O’Hara, Rhett Butler…GWTW, Clara Allen, Gus McCrae, Woodrow Call so many characters from Lonesome Dove.. Elizabeth Bennet and Mr.Darcy from P & P and Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine. This just a few of my of my favorite folks from books that I love.
Francie in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. She loves to read and is one of literature’s best underdogs!!!
Annie Dillard, The Writing Life. I swear the woman lived my life
@Pamela have you read Holy the Firm and An American Childhood? Both are amazing.
I’m a mixture from all the characters in Peanuts the comics…lol.
Non-fiction: Oskar Schindler of Schindler’s List…lest we forget
Francie Nolan from A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, for more reasons than I can count. ??
Death, The Book Thief. This character whom is never present, but is, switches between first person and third person and is the most original narrator of a story I have ever come across. I am still haunted by some of the words. “I see their ugly and their beauty … I wonder how the same thing can be both”
Loved The Book Thief …so Death eluded Liesel. I know that sounds shallow when so many other good people died/
Death did elude Liesel, but did eventually come for her in a resigned sort of way. If Death had a heart I believe you could feel the heaviness within that day.
I also love Sir Terry Pratchett’s Discworld DEATH
Scarlett O’Hara, Rhett Butler, Ashley and Melanie Wilkes. The four main characters from Gone With the Wind. An extremely flawed and problematic novel, that is also incredibly beautiful and inspiring. I identify with Scarlett and Rhett, because they defied the gender norms, of their time and being a gay male, I relate to that. I relate to Ashley, because of his love of books and longing for the easy days that are ” gone with the wind.” I relate to Melanie because I’m fiercely loyal to the point, I give many people the benefit of the doubt, and when looking back on it, I shouldn’t have. I’m a Slytherin (Harry Potter fans will understand) so I’m shrewed, cunning and ambitious, like Scarlett and Rhett. I don’t care about my social reputation as long as my needs are met. I’ve been both Scarlett and Rhett in love situations. Like Rhett I spent years eying a person knowing I would be good for them, while they dismissed me. And like Scarlett, I’ve clung on to crushes longer than I should have.
Wow, well written
Jeremy Armada I read this book when I was 16 and I loved it so much that as soon as I finished it I wanted to start it again. But I just wanted to tell you that I really enjoyed reading your post you hit the nail on the head about all the characters.Oh and by the way I know about being a Slytherin not because I have read Harry Potter YET but my 8 year old grandson talks to me all the time about it he says he is a Ravenclaw lol. Anyway I digress just letting you know I really enjoyed your post. Have a blessed Thanksgiving.
@Norma I have read Gone With the wind so many times over. I never get sick of it. The novel and film are extremely flawed in its portrayal of slavery and reconstruction America, but is incredibly beautifully with its themes of survival and gumption. I had a blessed thanksgiving and hope yours was just as great.
Have you tried The Bregdan Chronicles by Ginny Dye. I think you would enjoy this Civil War series.
The main character and narrator of Gilead.
@Deedee, I loved Gilead also
Meggie, Father Ralph and Dane from The Thornbirds. It is a haunting story that has stayed with me since I first read the book as a teenager.
@Kristin am reading the Thorn Birds now. Yes, I read books fast. Especially ones I have read before. This is my 4th time reading this one. Never tire of a good book. Like watching a good movie over again.
Perrin abarra,Martin cauthen and rand al’thor. I’ve read eye on the world 4 times Iove these books. The boys are flawed but they get stronger through the books
I finally finished the series going the whole way through earlier this year. It’s the first time I was able to go from start to finish and I have to agree.
Lizzie Bennet.
Jo March. She was a woman ahead of her time, she was feisty, hot tempered, caring, and she loved books and writing.
Roland – Dark Tower Series. He’s honest and true and has not forgotten the face of his father. He’s absolutely going to do what’s right and never waver.
Jo March Little Women and Wuthering Heights!
Owen Meaney from A Prayer for Owen Meaney by John Irving. The ending of that book just rocked me to my core about 28 yrs ago when I read it.
Meg from, “A Wrinkle in Time.” She was misunderstood. She was so brave and yet very human. Holmes and Watson from the numerous Sherlock Holmes short stories. They were best friends who were kind and good. They always made the world a better place. The Chicken Head from, “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.” He was considered sub-human but he was the only character in the whole book who showed some actual humanity.
@Margie, love Meg.
I must add Miyax from, “Julie of the Wolves.” Why? She fought so hard but ultimately couldn’t fight the destruction of her people’s way of life. And Frightful from, “Frightful’s Mountain.” She is a hawk and behaves like one yet her story is so facinating. @Casey
Ayla from “Clan of a Cave Bear”. I’m trying to figure out why she means a lot to me. ?
Scarlett O’Hara. Love it when she says “tomorrow’s another day.” She never gives up, though she’s not a nice person.
Francie Nolan. I learned to be compassionate at an early age from her
@Rachel I’m almost through that book. I’m reading it slowly so it lasts.
All of the Nolan family.I was so moved when Aunt Sissy had a healthy daughter delivered to her.
Atticus Finch and Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird.
I admire their sense of humanity and justice.
Sethe from Beloved by Toni Morrison. She may be the most tortured soul in all of literature. The pain, loss and suffering that woman survived is beyond me. And to still have the capacity to love. Blows me away every time.
Owen Meany! The underdog rises and thrives ?
????
Joel from The Giver by Lois Lowry.., and the Giver himself. To possess the knowledge and decide how to use it.., what a blessing and a burden at the same time. Such an incredible ? book !
@Becky, yes, for sure.
Anne from Anne of Green Gables because she was so outgoing and courageous and beloved.
The POET Job, from the Old Testament. In his unanswered search for justice and redemption, the greatest quest to this day still unresolved.
In that vein, I could add Ivar from ‘Oh Pioneers’ and ‘Crazy Sammy’ form ‘Who has Seen The Wind’. You mentioned Job , I ‘ll add John the Baptist. What do these Four have in common, they’ve isolated themselves and a little frightened of so called ‘civilised ‘ people. They all seem to have prophetic and mystical gifts, they stay with me because in their faith, they’ve brought a new depth to the story.
I refer to one of two Biblical Jobs, the original Job the poet, not the Job as edited by later Hebraic translators. Reconciliation to God is never found; for the latter, it is.
Eustace from The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. You don’t soon forget a boy turning into a dragon and a lion scraping him back into a boy.
The Woman in White by Wilke Collins because his writing gives the reader such vivid, memorable pictures and the suspense that lasts all the way through.
@Shirley Wonderful book!❤️
Jane Eyre: Both the character and the book, for her tenacity. But then, she’s a far nicer person than me. I would have never forgiven her aunt.
Betsy Trotwood from David Copperfield. I had an aunt just like her. We almost all do…
Winston in Orwell’s “1984”. The moment he reads the secret note from Julia reminds me that humanity can survive with a simple “I love you.”
Stephen Daedalus from James Joyce’s “Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man” because I am he and Joyce was he and many young artistically inclined men are he.
Can I go way back? The Emperor —-and the kingdom! Emperors New Clothes … you cannot believe everything you hear, you can fearlessly call out anything that seems untrue
To Kill a Mocking Bird is a book so relevant today. I never tire of seeing the movie or play. Atticus Finch is a man of character and decency.
Alice from STILL ALICE by Lisa Genova
Laura Ingalls Wilder, for all she experienced and because I’ve been to her homestead in SD. I just learned a lot from her about life and survival and have found her books to be very inspirational.
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Dagney Taggart. I admired her strength, determination, and ability to emotionally detach from chaos. Atlas Shrugged is one of my favorite books!
Scout from To Kill a Mockingbird. She is wise beyond her years and has some of the funniest lines in literature. It’s my favorite book.
Yes, loved the book! I wish everyone would read it.
Charlotte, she gave her life to save a friend/ to me that is the way to define a friend. some who would give all they have for you and would want nothing in return except you to LIVE your best life possible.
The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint!
Elizabeth from Pride and Prejudice
Horton Hears a Who “A person’s a person no matter how small.” He cared.
Atlas Shrugged especially the character of Dagney Taggart. Amazing strength
Another Horton fan, “I meant what I said, and I said what I meant. An elephant’s faithful one-hundred percent!” from Horton Hatches the Egg.
You gotta love Horton!
The Lorax- speaker for the trees
Logan Mountstuart from Any Human Heart. What amazing and tragic things his generation of Brits experienced. And Katey Kontent And Tinker Grey in Rules of Civility, all the feels.
Lisabeth Salander from the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series.
@Sharon And, if one one must watch the movies, please watch the original in Swedish (captioned.) Noomi Rapace is the only true Lizbet to millions of us.
Yes…she is incredible.
Gosh I never thought to look back at childhood characters but Winnie the Pooh is a keeper. Quiet contemplative solving of everyday troubles.
Francis Nolan from a tree grows in Brooklyn. I was 12 when I read it and reread it every year at least once.
Francis Nolan in A Tree Grows In Brooklyn. I could relate to her as a child.
Winnie the Pooh….for his kindness and wisdom…
Francis Nolan in A Tree Grows In Brooklyn. I could relate to her as a child.
Anne of Green Gables
@Kathy me too. Life changing.
Jo from Little Women.
@Karen Winnie the Pooh….for his kindness and wisdom…
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, (Francie); The Nun’s Story,(Gabi/Sister Luke).The latter is a nonfiction book, so technically does not qualify for GAR, but wonderful book; tremendous movie with stellar cast.❤?❤
Wang Lung from The good earth
Becca Lunde could relate to her as a child. ?
Harriet the Spy because she was a snoop, got herself in all kinds of pickles and was deliciously unconforming!
Francis, Jo, and my new favorite, Kyrgyzstan from Where the Crawdads Sing
Oh, my gosh! Too many! Anne of Green Gables; Taash from Taash and the Jesters; the two kids from City Under the Back Stairs trying to fit in with an ant colony and learning about all they do; Henry Huggins (Beverly Cleary) and how he was late for school because he didn’t know what “a quarter after” the hour meant and since a quarter is 25 cents, then “a quarter after” must be 25 minutes after… The Hardy Boys solving mysteries, and the Bobsy Twins, and the Happy Hollisters, and Amelia Bedelia, and…. I can’t even begin! That only scratches the surface of my childhood, let alone young adult…!