Dear America When Will This Cruel War Be Over by Barry Denenberg
Characters
Emma Simpson- She is the main character in this story . The whole concept of the book is about her diary . In her diary she talks about the stress and anxiety the war has brought upon her family .Emma to me is a static character. She still to me doesn't mature as much as she says she has. She complains a lot .If she really matured she would have handled things like her Aunt Caroline.
Aunt Caroline-She is one important characters in the book . She keeps patient thought the story which makes her static. Even when there was hard times ,like when baby Elizabeth died which I think it was from scarlet fever. (Maybe she caught from lily some how.) She still stood her ground .
Cousin Rachel- She's one on Aunt Caroline's daughters . She changes dramatically . From the girl who dreamed of getting married to despising it
And think its best not to get married at all . She becomes very angry with the war and marriage that it was starting to scare thoughts around her . Later in the story I found epilogue that Aunt Caroline sent her to a mental incaution for the insane . She died there some say she killed herself by jumping out the window or someone pushed her no one knows .
Mrs. Simpson- Emma's mom who was in the book for a short time . She help out around the house . Even with the fathers chores like watch the slaves .
But on Monday, April 18,1864 she's dies. She is a static character.
Iris-She is a slave . She sticks with Emma and her family throughout the war . She has a daughter names Dinah that Emma thinks is just like her. I'm learned in the Epilogue that she lived with Emma and tally after the war . But later on fines a husband and they find a house together . She is static .
Amos-He's a slave . He also sticks with them till the end of the war . He's a very old man he has no children or wife to care for so he looks at the Simpson's has his family. In the Epilogue he lives with Aunt Caroline he is also is a static.
The character that causes the most trouble and chacos is Abigail Williams. Abigail is Reverend Parris’s niece and she
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