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Zach Wrench
Twin to Ginnie, Carrie is a freckly, redheaded girl from Little Weirwold. Whereas Ginnie wants to be a wife and a homemaker, Carrie is a stubborn, independent intellectual who loves to read and despises housework. Her ambition is to attend the academic high school in the larger town of Weirwold, though the school in Little Weirwold never nominates girls to take the entrance exams. Though Carrie and Ginnie are initially skeptical of London evacuees William and Zach—they think William is too shy and Zach excessively extroverted—they soon become fast friends with the evacuees when George Fletcher invites them all on a blackberry-picking excursion. Carrie likes Zach because his self-assured weirdness makes her feel less out of place, despite how different she is from the rest of her family, some of whom who don’t understand her ambition. Zach is the first person Carrie tells of her plan to ask Little Weirwold teacher Mrs. Hartridge to let her take the entrance exams for the academic high school in town—and he seems to be the first friend she tells when she passes the exams and gets into the high school. At first, Carrie has a difficult time in high school because the more urbanized students take her rural accent as a sign of stupidity. When she beats many of them on the end-of-term exams, however, she starts to make friends. Yet after Zach dies, Carrie feels extremely lonely, especially when William refuses to talk about their dead friend. After William begins grieving for Zach in a healthier way, however, William and Carrie grow closer, and the novel strongly implies that William is developing a crush on her.
Carrie Thatcher Quotes in Good Night, Mr. Tom
The Good Night, Mr. Tom quotes below are all either spoken by Carrie Thatcher or refer to Carrie Thatcher. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 7: An Encounter over Blackberries
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He couldn’t read or write. He couldn’t swim or ride a bicycle. He had never made anything and he couldn’t tell the difference between one flower and another. He couldn’t play cricket or any other game for that matter and he had never been fishing. He began to panic. The others would get bored with waiting and go off on their own without him. He swallowed hard and looked up at their faces. They didn’t look bored. He relaxed a little and then he remembered something.
“I likes drawin’.”
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Chapter 10: The Case
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The jersey had a polo-neck collar in red. The cuffs and the waistband were ribbed in the same color. Willie thought that next to Zach’s deep complexion and black hair the red looked pleasing.
“I think it’s fine,” he said quietly, and Zach knew he was speaking truthfully.
Chapter 11: Friday
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“And here’s me dying to act and I can’t be in it because I’m Jewish.”
“Now you know how I feel about the high school,” said Carrie.
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Carrie Thatcher Quotes in Good Night, Mr. Tom
The Good Night, Mr. Tom quotes below are all either spoken by Carrie Thatcher or refer to Carrie Thatcher. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 7: An Encounter over Blackberries
Quotes
He couldn’t read or write. He couldn’t swim or ride a bicycle. He had never made anything and he couldn’t tell the difference between one flower and another. He couldn’t play cricket or any other game for that matter and he had never been fishing. He began to panic. The others would get bored with waiting and go off on their own without him. He swallowed hard and looked up at their faces. They didn’t look bored. He relaxed a little and then he remembered something.
“I likes drawin’.”
Related Characters:
Page Number and Citation:
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 10: The Case
Quotes
The jersey had a polo-neck collar in red. The cuffs and the waistband were ribbed in the same color. Willie thought that next to Zach’s deep complexion and black hair the red looked pleasing.
“I think it’s fine,” he said quietly, and Zach knew he was speaking truthfully.
Chapter 11: Friday
Quotes
“And here’s me dying to act and I can’t be in it because I’m Jewish.”
“Now you know how I feel about the high school,” said Carrie.
