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Laura Wishart is a thoughtful, intelligent girl.
Her death is the subject of the novel.
Prior to her mysterious death, Laura had been in a relationship with Jasper Jones.
Charlie discovers that Laura’s father, Pete Wishart, raped and abused her.
Intelligent, poised, and witty.
Jasper likes her.
He is elated when he discovers that Eliza is attracted to him.
Despite her appearance of calmness and composure, she is capable of acts of enormous destruction, which lie outside Charlie’s full comprehension.
Main character, 13 and is very smart. Charlie does not enjoy sport.
He aspires to be a writer when he gets older.
When he gets caught with helping Jasper, Charlie looks to Atticus Finch as an admirable father figure character.
The protagonist of the novel.
Supposedly killed a woman years ago, Mad Jack Lionel is greatly feared by the adolescents and children of the town.
Charlie and Jasper discover that Jack is Jasper’s paternal grandfather.
Jasper’s father, David, resented Jack for refusing to accept Rosie, his wife, for being Aboriginal. Later, Jack accidentally caused Rosie’s death by driving her to a hospital and getting into a bad car crash. As a result, David never tells Jasper that Jack is his grandfather.
Twelve-year-old Vietnamese boy who is in the same grade as Charlie and Eliza, having been skipped forward one year. Jeffrey has an absurd, frequently vulgar sense of humor.
Charlies close friend
Enormously optimistic person and a superb cricket player.
Jeffrey deals with racism and discrimination from the townspeople, because his family is Vietnamese.
Jasper is labeled by the town as "a thief, a liar, a thug, a truant and many more. Jasper has always been looked down upon as a menace in the community. Jasper Jones has a bad reputation which is often blamed for crimes he does not commit.
Jasper's father is physically abusive and suffers from an addiction to alcohol. This prompts Jasper to steal for food, as there is no money left in the house. Jasper regularly smokes cigarettes and drinks alcohol.