

Ramirez is the protagonist of "I See You Never," who is deported to Mexico after overstaying his visa. He helps to articulate the themes of loneliness and companionship that surface in the story. McDunn is a supporting character in "The Fog Horn." He explains the arrival of the monster and formulates theories about why it arrives at the lighthouse once a year. He sets out to destroy the pieces of technology in his life, and he is ostracized and sent to a mental hospital because of his behavior. He is a character in "The Murderer" who is discouraged with technological advances in society. The real name of the "Murderer" is Albert Brock. She is the first to deliver the news that an atomic bomb hit New York and no rockets will be able to go to Mars. Laura Bittering is the daughter of Harry Bittering and Cora Bittering. David Bitteringĭavid Bittering is the son of Cora Bittering and Harry Bittering. He is the first to accept their status as Martians, which is shown when he asks to change his name to Linnl. He is the son of Harry Bittering and Cora Bittering. Like her husband, she eventually forgets that they were from Earth. She encourages him to relax and accept the fact that they now live on Mars and cannot return to Earth. Cora BitteringĬora Bittering is the wife of Harry Bittering. He resists the changes the planet Mars tries to impose upon him, but he eventually accepts them and acclimates to his new home. Harry Bittering is the protagonist in "Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed." He is the wife of Cora Bittering and the father of Dan Bittering, Laura Bittering, and David Bittering. Her classmates bully her and lock her in a closet during the two hours the sun will be out for seven years. She moved to Venus at age 5 and desperately misses the sun. Margot is the protagonist in "All Summer in a Day." She is lonely, pale, and has trouble fitting in with the rest of her classmates because of her prior experiences on Earth. When Eckels steps on a butterfly in the past and changes the results of a presidential election, Travis is outraged and kills Eckels upon their return to present day. The safari guide in "A Sound of Thunder." He warns the hunters of the dangers of interrupting the past, specifying the major repercussions it can have on the future. His mindless wandering off of the path causes major changes for the future. EckelsĮckels is the protagonist of "A Sound of Thunder." At first brash and abrasive, Eckels becomes scared and timid when he sees the dinosaur. When he returns at the end of the story, the reader realizes that George and Lydia Hadley have been killed. Perceptive and analytical, he immediately sees how the scenery the children are imagining in the nursery is dark and troubling. He is the family friend of the Hadley's and a psychologist. Together with her brother, they bring about the death of their parents.

She lies and tries to manipulate her parents, who she sees as obsolete and unnecessary.

The daughter in "The Veldt," who is obsessed with the simulations in the nursery. He and his sister, Wendy, imagine their parents' death so often in the African savannah that it eventually comes to pass at the end of the story. He is manipulative and threatening with his father, who he does not respect or understand. The son in "The Veldt" who is obsessed with the automated home and the lifelike nursery. Essentially replaced by the home, Lydia and her husband George are resented by their children and eventually die in the nursery. She is the mother in "The Veldt." She and her husband worry about their children's attachment to their automated home, the "Happy-life home." She feels lost and purposeless now that their home has taken over all of the domestic duties. He dies at the hands of the nursery's lions. He is the father in "The Veldt," and his family lives in an automated home called the "Happy-life home." At first in denial, he grows concerned with his children's fixation on the violence of the African savannah, which they visit in their technologically advanced "nursery." He and his wife are now powerless after essentially being replaced by their home.
