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Post by Dante on Feb 2, 2010 16:57:28 GMT -5
Name | Description | Novel most likely taken from | Alonso | Pleasant-looking | Shakespeare’s The Tempest | Ariel | One or two years older than Violet | Shakespeare’sThe Tempest | Rabbi Bligh | ? | Charles Nordhoff’s Mutiny on the Bounty | Friday Caliban | Daughter of Miranda Caliban and six or seven years old | Daniel DeFoe’s Robinson Crusoe | Miranda Caliban | Friday’s mother and a pleasant-looking woman with a freckly face | Shakespeare’s The Tempest | Jonah Bellamy | twin of Sadie | Samuel Butler’s Erewhon, The Bible, The Adventures of Sadie, Samuel “Black Sam” Bellamy, or Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backwards | Sadie Bellamy | twin of Jonah | Same as Jonah: Samuel Butler’s Erewhon, The Bible, The Adventures of Sadie, Samuel “Black Sam” Bellamy, or Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backwards | Brewster | ? | No novel, but probably named after William Brewster | Byam | Mustache unusually curly | Charles Nordhoff’s Mutiny on the Bounty | Calypso | ? | Homer’s The Odyssey or the Calypso from Greek Mythology | Erewhon | Old woman | Samuel Butler’s Erewhon (anagram of “Nowhere”) | Ferdinand | ? | Shakespeare’s The Tempest | Finn | young girl | Mark Twain’s (Samuel Clemen’s) Huckleberry Finn | Ishmael | Island facilitator, wears clay on feet | Herman Melville’s Moby Dick and The Bible | Professor Fletcher | ? | Charles Nordhoff’s Mutiny on the Bounty | Dr. Kurtz | ? | Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness | Larsen | ? | Jack London’s The Sea Wolf | Ms. Marlow | ? | Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness | Madame Nordoff | ? | Charles Nordhoff’s Mutiny on the Bounty | Omeros | About Klaus’s age | Homer’s The Odyssey | Mr. Pitcairn | ? | Charles Nordhoff’s Mutiny on the Bounty or the Pitcairn Islands | Robinson | Bearded man | Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe | Sherman | Plump man with a sunburned face | William Pène du Bois’s The Twenty-One Balloons or General William Tecumseh Sherman | Weyden | Red-haired woman | Jack London’s The Sea Wolf | Willa | head unusually large | No novel, but probably named after Willa Cather | Thursday | ? | Fletcher Christian's son born on Pitcairn Island was named Thursday |
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