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The Water Dancer Character Analysis - Hiram - LitCharts

The Water Dancer Characters · Hiram Walker. Hiram is the main character and narrator of the novel. · Sophia. Sophia is a young woman enslaved by ...

The Water Dancer Character List - GradeSaver

The Water Dancer Character List · Hiram Walker · Howell Walker · Maynard Walker · Rose · Emma · Thena · Kessiah · Elias.

The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates | Overview & Characters

Lesson Summary. In "The Water Dancer," the key figures are Hiram, Sophia, Thena, and Corinne, who represent Hiram's adopted family. Thena is his adopted mother ...

The Water Dancer Characters Listed With Descriptions

Morris, Beacon ; John, Walker ; Archibald, Walker ; Judith ...

The Water Dancer - Marmalade and Mustardseed

Characters ; Hiram Walker: Protagonist who is one of the Tasked ; Thena: One of the Tasked who lives on the Street, mother to five children who ...

The Water Dancer Character Analysis | SuperSummary

Hiram goes from being a young boy obsessed with claiming his Walker heritage to becoming a man who is an Underground agent committed to a secret war against ...

The Water Dancer - Wikipedia

At the end of The Water Dancer, Coates adds an author's note, listing Peter and William Still as the inspiration for the characters in the White family.

Hiram Walker Character Analysis in The Water Dancer | LitCharts

After accidentally killing his half-brother/enslaver, Maynard, in a carriage crash, Hiram attempts to flee Lockless with Sophia, the woman he loves. However, ...

The Water Dancer Characters - eNotes.com

The main characters in The Water Dancer are Hiram Walker, Howell Walker, Sophia, and Corinne Quinn. Hiram Walker: The novel's narrator and protagonist, ...

The Water Dancer Summary | GradeSaver

The protagonist, Hiram, is an enslaved African-American man who was born and raised on a tobacco plantation and estate called Lockless. Hiram's ...

The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates: A Review

The main character in The Water Dancer is an enslaved Black man named, Hiram Walker. The story is narrated by Hiram and begins in his ...

The Water Dancer - Ta-Nehisi Coates

Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage–and lost his mother and all memory of her when he was a child–but he is also gifted with a mysterious power. Hiram ...

The Water Dancer — LitReaderNotes

Throughout The Water Dancer, Coates employs a powerful vocabulary of slavery (“the Task”), in which slaves are “the Tasked,” landed whites are “ ...

The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates | Goodreads

The author created the character of the slave Hiram Walker. Hiram was the son of his mother Rose and her master Howell Walker. After Rose was sold, Hiram was ...

Whiteness in The Water Dancer: A Novel Reflection on Antiracist ...

Here we have a book in which Coates offers a perspective that is never presented in texts on slavery. The novel's narrator, Hiram, is an ...

The Water Dancer review: Ta-Nehisi Coates's debut novel is ... - Vox

And that, in turn, means it is nearly impossible to get a real feel for any of the characters besides Hiram, because all of them are more or ...

The Water Dancer: A Novel by Ta-Nehisi Coates, Paperback

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK • From the National Book Award–winning author of Between the World and Me, a boldly conjured debut novel ...

Book Review: The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates - More2Read

Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage. When his mother was sold away, Hiram was robbed of all memory of her—but was gifted with a mysterious power. Years ...

The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates review – a slave's story

The main character and narrator, Hiram, is no ordinary slave. He is gifted with, among other things, a photographic memory; he is also son to Mr ...

The Water Dancer [Book Review] - Media Noire

With his craving for freedom and gifted memory, Hiram comes to the attention of the Underground, a mysterious network that helps enslaved people escape to ...