Simon Boudlin Character Analysis in News of the World

An itinerant fiddler whom Captain Kidd knows from his travels across Texas. Captain Kidd appreciates Simon’s introspective, thoughtful personality and asks him for help looking after Johanna. At the end of the novel, the Captain reports that Simon and his fiancée, Doris, are working as traveling musicians with their six children.

Simon Boudlin Character Timeline in News of the World

The timeline below shows where the character Simon Boudlin appears in News of the World. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.

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...Lodge for the night and walks around placing advertisements for his reading. He runs into Simon, a fiddler he knows from his travelers. Ascertaining that Simon isn’t playing a concert tonight,... (full context)

Simon finds Doris and along with Captain Kidd they return to the wagon, where Johanna has... (full context)

...questions Captain Kidd about Johanna’s family. Impetuously, she offers to take charge of Johanna herself. Simon looks at her in alarm, remarking that they’re engaged to be married and are already... (full context)

Just as the reading ends, Simon hurries into the auditorium and announces that Johanna is gone. He and Doris had dozed... (full context)

...his men are killed in a Comanche raid during one of their freighting trips. However, Simon and Doris raise six children, all musicians. The family travels around Texas bringing Irish dancing... (full context)