Childhood's End characters
He is a smart, kind, sensitive and handsome man. Even when he sometimes has doubts what the Overlords’ plan is Stormgren still trusts Karellen. That’s what we call real friendship. Also, he is the only one and official secretary of the USA who performs all that things with Karellen. He...
Jan is a 27-year-old African-American man. We immediately like him because he is thoughtful. He is very interested in astronomy and everything that is connected to it. Later he poses the question – if the Overlords are from another Galaxy, where’s their son? This makes him think that...
Who are these strange guys? Just an alien race. Once they come to Earth, it was approximately in the late twentieth century; they take control of the planet. Their aim is a good one. They want to destroy a lot of disease, wars, and discord among people. They want to build and create a world which...
Being from the race of Overlords he is described as an intelligent, smart, and friendly guy. Unfortunately, Karellen knows what will happen to the human race, and has strange dual feelings about it. In this story he has some talks only with the Stormgren, and honestly, they are very sincere to...
We can’t say much about this character, as he isn’t dynamic or changing his role, attitudes, desires or aims during the text. In this text, Wainwright is described as a strong leader of the Freedom League. What is that? It is a religiously based group; their main aim is to oppose...
This guy has a lot of lines in the text that’s why we can say a lot about him. First of all, he is a complicated character as he has two different sides of the character. He always knows and tells who the person is, where someone goes, what someone does. Nevertheless, he is a strong and...
George Greggson is a production designer on TV. When we first meet George, he is introduced as Jean’s boyfriend, a strange skeptic who is uninterested in the rush of Jean and Rupert. He later marries Jean Morrel, and they give birth to two children – Jeffrey and Jennifer. He is shocked...
All of us know, that from time to time authors like mentioning and involving to the text characters who are not very important. Their character doesn’t have impact or influence, but presence is valuable. The same thing is with this character – he is in the book for not a very big reason...
As well as a Reinhold this character isn’t opened in a book very much. His job is important and essential as he also works on making an interstellar ship for the Soviet Union. He and Reinhold are both mentioned because we, as readers need to know information not only about aliens but human...
Rupert Boyce… well-well. This man is the one who gets a lot of our attention. He is a stative character and very influential and kind person. In the book, he plays a role of “supervet.” He cares about all living beings, he protects and loves them. This vet signed to protect...
Professor is an oceanographic scientist. He is a complicated character as his behavior changes during the story. Sullivan’s lab is deep under the ocean. The Overlords often ask Sullivan to perform such tasks as entire stuffing whales for exhibition in the Overlords’ museums on their...
When few first see Jean he appears to be Gorge's girlfriend. She is a girl who likes psychic powers, the paranormal things. Jean is shown as nice, lovely, well-educated woman who we love a lot. She gets excited about things very easily, and she doesn’t lose the interest very quickly. The...