There were many characters in the story of Show Boat. In the beginning we met Captain Andy Hawks and his wife Parthy Anne. Andy was the caption of the Cotton Blossom. They had one daughter and her name was Magnolia. The purpose of Andy and Parthy Anne is to add comedy and conflict in the story. They fought a lot and it was very humorous, and it seemed as if they both stood on opposite sides when it came to raising their daughter. Magnolia was probably the star of the musical. She tied in to almost everyone in the story.
Later on, Magnolia married Gaylord Rayenal. He is a gambler and gives Magnolia a good life for a while. His purpose in the story was to add the romance, and to also add conflict. They eventually have a daughter named Kim.
In the beginning we also met a girl named Julie LaVerne. She was married to a man named Steve Baker. Julie was also Magnolia’s piano teacher. We also met a “friend” of Julie’s named Pete Gavin. Pete had obviously been involved (probably not romantically) with Julie before Show Boat started. The purpose of those two was to tell of racial issues during that time.
There were also two characters in the beginning named Frank Shultz and Ellie May Chipley. They were the comedians on board. They were there for mostly comedy…. and also irony. They are the ones who met Magnolia in Chicago. It was also very ironic how they finally got married and adopted a son who turned out to be very talented.
Joe and Queenie were two of the black characters on the boat. They were married. I think the reason they were there was to show the segregation between whites and blacks in those days. Joe would also sing a song called “Old Man River” that stood for the passing of time.
"Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?" -Jack Kerouac, On the Road
	The first of the girls to be trailed were Betty Parris and Abigail Williams. Movie shows that it was Ruth Putnam whose real name is actually Ann. The Parris family is somewhat confusing in the film compared to actually history. History shows that Betty Parris also had a brother Thomas and a sister Susannah, which were not mentioned in the film at all. Also, the film says that Betty’s mother is dead but according to history she did not die until 1696. Reverend Parris never graduated from Harvard as stated in the movie. He did attend for a short while but later dropped out.
Lala, Sunny and Peachy are just a few of the characters that were cast in the play. Be assured, however, that all the others were also suitably cast for their roles in the production. Thus, making the character selection only one of the key elements in the production’s success.
There were not many major characters in this movie, but all played an important roll to the subject matter. Jimmy Morris was the main character, a young man, about 30 years old with a wife, three children, and a career as a chemistry high school teacher and baseball coach. His high school baseball team was the inspiration to him helping to achieve his goal of wanting to be a major league baseball player. Lori Morris, Jimmy’s wife, Hunter was his only young son who adored his father, and two young daughters Jessica, and Jamie. Jimmy’s father who was a military man played a minor part in the movie but, was the reason for a major controversy in the main character’s life.
The film chronicles the histories of three fathers, and manages to relates and link their events and situations. First is Mitchell Stephens and his relationship with his drug-addict daughter. Second is Sam, and the secret affair he is having with his young daughter Nicole. He is somewhat of a narcissistic character because of his preoccupation with himself and pleasing himself, and his lack of empathy throughout the film for the others in the town. Third is Billy, who loves his two children so much that he follows behind the school bus every day waving at them. Billy is also having an affair with a married woman who owns the town’s only motel. On the exterior the town is an average place with good people just living their lives. But, beneath all the small town simplicity is a web of lies and secrets, some which must be dealt with in the face of this tragedy.
Jackie was the youngest of five children. Times got tougher when Jackie’s father walked out on his family. Jackie’s mother, Mallie, had to care for all five children and run the farm by herself. Mallie didn’t want her children growing up as feeling unequal, so she made the decision to move to California. Jackie was only sixteen months old when his family made the weeklong trip to California.
happy union, and Bill and Mary, who were teenagers, never really got along with her
Of the ten characters there are Justice Wargrave, who is a retired judge; Vera Claythorne, a governess or nanny; Philip Lombard, a retired mercenary soldier; Dr. Armstrong, a doctor; William Henry Blore, a former police inspector; Emily Brent, an old religious woman who married rich; Mr. Rodgers, the butler; Mrs. Rodgers, the cook/maid and Mr. Rodgers wife; Anthony Marston, a rich and handsome young man; and General McCarther, a former general of WWI. All of these people are invited to stay on the island, by the request of a millionaire who regrettably fails to appear wh...
3.) Sara Margaret- She is Linda’s four-year-old daughter who lives with Linda’s mother. She gets to be very fond of Jack, but is too young to understand what is going on around her.
When I saw Everett, Delmar, and Pete together in the opening scene, hiding in the grass with every step, I had the impression that the plot would be amusing since they immediately seemed to resemble The Three Stooges. Every character also appeared as exaggerated and almost unrealistic or too good to be true because they were so funny! For example, at the beginning of the film, they ride on a handcar on the railroad driven by a blind African American man who tells them a prophecy. For me, his prophecy felt so randomly placed to me and I laughed because I thought it was so ridiculous! Little did I know, the rest of the film continued to feel this way, but it was a very effective and well-done in adding a comedy to the film. "Big Dan" resembled the cyclops in Homer 's Odyssey, which I found hilarious because not only did he look strange, but his character seemed so exaggerated that I found that he was meant to be this film 's version of the cyclops straightaway. There were other characters, like George Nelson, Homer Stokes, the midget, and the little boy with the gun, that aided in making this story become a more modernized version of the fictitious occurrences within the Odyssey. New ridiculous characters were continually added and discovered as the story progressed, just like the
The main characters within the show would be Peter, Rita, and the Old Man. Peter would be considered as the protagonist, and the Old Man playing the antagonist. Peter meets Rita and they immediately fall in love with each other. Peter asks Rita to marry him and are soon to be married shortly
three older women. Sarah Good, Sarah Osburn, and a slave called Tituba. The women were
The four main characters are Meg, Jo, Amy and Beth the story centers around the four girls and the life they have during the time they are growing up. Marmee the girls mother is another main character because she is always supporting them in every decision and helping them to make through bad times even when they did not get anything for Christmas.
Different schools of thought propose varying theoretical models of criminality. It is agreeable that criminal behaviour is deep rooted in societies and screams for attention. Biological, Social ecological and psychological model theories are key to helping researchers gain deeper comprehension of criminal behaviour and ways to avert them before they become a menace to society. All these theories put forward a multitude of factors on the outlooks on crime. All these theories have valid relevancy to continuous research on criminal behaviour.
She not only includes the new couples (Fred and Mary, Celia and Chettam), but also the older ones (the Garths and the Cadwalladers and the Bulstrodes), as well as widowhood (Dorothea).