1. Character log
Grant Wiggins

2. Structure

3. Structure Biographical details Outward appearance Situation/ position
Activities/ interests
Personal characteristics/ behaviour
Language/ thought
Feelings/ attitudes
Character development in the course of the novel

4. Biographical details

5. Grant Wiggins male about 25 years old (p.19, ll. 22-25)
Biographical details
Grant Wiggins
male
about 25 years old (p.19, ll )

6. Outward appearance

7. Outward appearance African American
possibly good looking, because of his handsome girlfriend Vivian
wears simple clothes (p.12, ll )

8. Situation/ position

9. Situation/ position Family: Tante Lou‘s nephew
spent his childhood working on Henry Pichot‘s plantation (p.19, l.17)
his parents moved to California during the war (p.99, ll )
ancestors have been slaves on the plantation in earlier generations (p.103, ll. 8-9)

10. Social background:
time of segregation (pp )
grew up working on a Louisiana plantation (p.19)
lives in a quarter of former slave houses near Bayonne together with his aunt (p.12, l.4)
Profession:
teacher at a school for blacks (p.15, ll.17-18)

11. Kind of friends:
girlfriend Vivian Baptiste (Chapter 4)
Joe and Thelma Claiborne (p.27, ll.2-7)
Paul Bonin, the Sheriff‘s deputy (p.242, l. 5)
→ “Allow me to be your friend.“

12. Activities/ Interests

13. Activities/ Interests
likes to go to the Rainbow Club and to drink Brandy (p.27, l. 6)
likes to spend time with Vivian (p.24, ll. 17)

14. Personal characteristics/ behaviour

15. Personal characteristics/ behaviour
Abilities:
educated (p.19, l. 19 )
driving (p.17, l.1)
Bad habits:
hurtful to people around him (p.24, ll. 8-9)
 “Nothing could have hurt her more when I said I was not going to eat her food.“

16. sometimes uses violence (p.188-190)
cruel (chapter 5)
impatient (chapter 5)
drinks alcohol (p.27, l.6)
Other characteristics:
sarcastic (p. 18, ll )
has good manners (p.12, ll.11-12)
avoids unpleasent situations (p.12, l. 3-6)

17. speaks standard American English (p.46, ll. 27-34)
Language/ thought
speaks standard American English (p.46, ll )

18. Feelings/ attitudes

19. Feelings/ attitudes
wants to leave Town but cannot because his love to Vivian keeps him there (p.29/ p.16, ll.18-22)
“I'm tired of feeling committed“ (p.29, l.18)
feels discriminated by white people (p.44, ll.20-24)
hates teaching, feels stuck and hates the place he lives with his aunt (p.16, ll.19-20)
He does not like his aunt's bossy and dominant behaviour (p.13, ll.20 f.)

20. Development in the course of the novel
At the beginning:
he is cold, hopeless and he does not want anything to do with Jefferson (p.16, ll.6-11)
Afterwards:
he rases hope and he starts to believe in god
becomes more emotional, because he cries for Jefferson's dead
he is proud of Jefferson who found his dignity before he dies