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Goodnight Mr. Tom Character Summary. Character Description 1. Mr. Tom Mr. Tom
is an elderly gentleman who lives in the country of England. ...
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Character Description
1. Mr. Tom
Mr. Tom is an elderly gentleman who lives in the country of England. He is quiet and keeps to himself. Throughout the novel Mr. Tom changes and becomes a new person. With the outbreak of war he is responsible for the care of a young evacuee, Will. He and Tom quickly grow to care for each other. Will is given into Tom’s care with only the clothes on his back. Tom talks to Mrs. Henley, a local neighbor, and asks her if she would be kind enough to knit Will a jersey. She replied, “You ent gotta clothe ‘em” but Mr. Tom was persistent and was able to get Will a new, thick jersey made (18). Tom takes real good care of William and does his best to look after the young child. While Will is around him, Mr. Tom isn’t so deeply depressed about his wife and son, who have both departed. He is more social with the rest of the town and has a more happy expression. When the young evacuee is sent back home Tom worries, when he goes to check on him he finds him in startling health. He even breaks the law to get his frail body back into the country side with him. Mr. Tom is soon Will’s adopted father, nearing the end of the novel Will notices something about Tom. “[He] noticed how old and vulnerable Tom looked” (317).
2. Will Beech
Will is a young child who is ripped out of his home and put in the care of Mr. Tom. Just as Mr. Tom changed throughout the story, so does Will. When he arrives at the small cottage he is terrified of Mr. Tom, all of his life he has been beaten and he feared that was common. Mr. Tom first noticed a “large multicolored bruise on the shin and a swollen red sore beside” (5). Will can’t say what he thinks or even answer a person without the fear that his is going to get a strike. When he first gets friends he is worried that he shouldn’t have them and that they may be evil. Will didn’t even know how to act around his first friend, Zach. He soon took over some of the...
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