Characters
- Wilbur Robinson is a 13 year old boy who, with his friend, searches his home for Grandfather Robinson's teeth. in the process Wilbur makes Lewis meet his family.
- Lewis is Wilbur Robinson's 12 year old best friend. He visits the home of his best friend and spends all day there. He joins in the search for Grandfather Robinson's missing false teeth and meets all the Robinson relatives.
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Famous quotes containing the word characters:
“Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him.”
—William Burroughs (b. 1914)
“What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the sentences. That’s what their substance is.”
—Jonathan Miller (b. 1936)
“The business of a novelist is, in my opinion, to create characters first and foremost, and then to set them in the snarl of the human currents of his time, so that there results an accurate permanent record of a phase of human history.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)