The Good Lord Bird Characters

James McBride
This Study Guide consists of approximately 116 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of The Good Lord Bird.

The Good Lord Bird Characters

James McBride
This Study Guide consists of approximately 116 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of The Good Lord Bird.
This section contains 3,448 words
(approx. 9 pages at 400 words per page)
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Henry Shackleford

Henry Shackleford is the narrator and the main character of the novel. The entire novel apart from the prologue is told from his point of view as a very old, light-skinned black man telling about his experiences as a boy in slavery times. The story's action encompasses Henry's life from about age ten to thirteen. (As a slave, he is uncertain of his true age.) He is known by almost all of the characters in the novel by the name of Henrietta and/or Little Onion. The story begins when Henry is ten years old, enslaved with his father and other relatives by a tavern owner and prominent business owner in a town on the Kansas frontier. His mother died giving birth to Henry. John Brown comes into the tavern and gets into a confrontation with his owner, which results in the accidental death of Henry's father...

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