Which characters in a book have stayed with you long after reading the book?

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MyBrilliantDisguise · 17/01/2018 20:31

Are there any characters in books that you almost see as real people? Where you're almost wondering how they are now, or how they'd react to something? Have any made a huge impact on you and the way you live your life?

There are a few for me. Holden Caulfield. Anne Shirley. Fay and Tom in The Republic of Love (one of my favourite books.)

How about you?

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annandale · 17/01/2018 20:42

Anne of Green Gables - snap.

Aslan from Narnia. I understood that he was a God and created a new religion aged 11 which involved praying to him and ceremonies with fruit/sweet sacrifices which I would eat after a short interval Not sure that's what CS Lewis had in mind.

Hazel from Watership Down. He's the ideal father figure to me.

Adam and Jenny from A Civil Contract and Sophy from The Grand Sophy. So much so that I'm attempting to write a fanfic novel including them all.

hollygolipo · 17/01/2018 20:42

Jude in A Little Life - broke my heart...

SprogletsMum · 17/01/2018 20:41

Faythe Sanders. It was the first world I wanted to live in and she was the first character I wanted to be.

StripySocksAndDocs · 17/01/2018 20:39

Tatty. Still with me today. Read over 10 years ago; not sure I've recovered yet!!

www.goodreads.com/book/show/395915.Tatty

Weezol · 17/01/2018 20:38

Kizzy from The Diddakoi by Rumer Godden

The family from Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Samuel Vimes from the Terry Pratchett books.

TheKitchenWitch · 17/01/2018 20:32

Henry from The Secret History
Owen from Owen Meany
Scarlett from Gone With The Wind.

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