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Course Hero. "Annie John Study Guide." Course Hero. 2 Oct. 2017. Web. 29 May 2023. <https://www.coursehero.com/lit/Annie-John/>.
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| Character | Description |
|---|---|
| Annie John | Annie John is a spirited teenager who bucks authority to form her own identity. Read More |
| Mother | Mother follows traditional gender roles and expects her daughter to do the same. Read More |
| Father | Father is a carpenter who works hard to support his wife and daughter. Read More |
| Gweneth Joseph | Gweneth Joseph, "Gwen," is Annie's best friend at school, with whom she shares almost all her secrets. Read More |
| The Red Girl | The Red Girl is a dirty local child whom Annie secretly befriends despite her mother's objections. Read More |
| Ma Chess | Ma Chess is Annie's grandmother who arrives from Dominica when Annie is ill to help nurse the girl back to health using traditional medicine. |
| Pa Chess | Pa Chess is Annie's grandfather, whose wife stops speaking to him after their son, Annie's uncle, dies. |
| Mr. Earl | Mr. Earl is a neighbor of Annie John and her family; he shares a wife with Mr. Nigel. |
| Miss Edward | Miss Edward is the schoolteacher who revokes Annie's position as prefect after catching her defacing a picture of Christopher Columbus. |
| Hilarene | Hilarene is second in class behind Annie. |
| Ma Jolie | Ma Jolie is the village obeah, or medicine woman. |
| Mineu | Mineu is a boy who bullied Annie as a child and who almost hung himself once while they were playing together. |
| Nalda | Nalda is the first child Annie knows that dies. Mother tends to Nalda's body when her own mother is too overcome with grief to do so. |
| Miss Nelson | Miss Nelson is Annie's first schoolteacher who assigns the essay by which Annie first proves herself to be an excellent student. |
| Mr. Nigel | Mr. Nigel is a neighbor of Annie John and her family; he shares a wife with Mr. Earl. |
| Mr. Oatie | Mr. Oatie is Father's work partner who always seems to be making mistakes. |
| Sonia | Sonia is the school dunce whom Annie befriends until learning that the girl's mother died in childbirth. |
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