A High Wind in Jamaica (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Richard Hughes
- First Published: 1929
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: Early nineteenth century
- Setting: Jamaica, the high seas, and England
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Children, Voyages, Caribbean, Murder or homicide, Nineteenth century, Brothers and sisters, Trials, England or English people, Sea or seafaring life, Hurricanes, Pirates
- Locales: England, Jamaica, Oceans
Characters Discussed
Mr. Bas-Thornton, a plantation owner in Jamaica who sends his children to school in England. On the way, the children, with two of their friends, are taken aboard a pirate ship. Though the children are returned within a few months, their father and mother never realize what the experience has done to them psychologically.
Mrs. Bas-Thornton, his wife.
John, oldest of the Bas-Thornton children. He is killed in a fall from a warehouse when his pirate captors, who have taken the children accidentally and treated them well, are selling their booty...
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