Have Space Suit--Will Travel | Characters
Effective characterization is one of the charms of Have Space Suit — Will Travel. The teenaged hero, Kip Russell, and his twelve-year-old sidekick, Patricia "Peewee" Reisfeld, are ideally suited to the young adult audience for which the novel was intended. They are exceptional enough to make attractive role models — both are unusually bright, resourceful, and brave — yet ordinary enough for young readers to identify easily with the protagonists. In fact both are youthful variations on Heinlein's standard hero, the competent, self-reliant survivor, but Kip and Peewee, refreshingly,...
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