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Monday, September 16, 2024

TTT: Redeemed characters


Top Ten Tuesday: Redeemed Characters 

1. Fitzwilliam Darcy in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. He was such a snob but ended up using his power and presitigue for good to benefit the Bennet family.

2. Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Scrooge didn't believe in Christmas until he was visited by the ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future. His transformation was complete.

3. Jean Valjean in Les Miserables by Victor Hugo. Valjean is imprisoned for stealing bread but ends up killing a man while inside the prison. When he escapes he comes to understand that only through love can he be redeemed and the rest of his life is dedicated to good works.

4. Severus Snape in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowlings. He redeemed himself after Lily Potter's death by becoming a double agent working for Dumbledore against Voldemort.

5. Edmund in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis. Edmund ratted out his siblings to the White Witch, but Aslan redeemed him, saving him to fight alongside his brother Peter and other magical beasts against the witch and her minions.

6. Werner Pfennig in All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr. Werner isn't a bad person he is just forced to use his talents with radios to further the Nazi cause. He is redeemed when he saves Marie-Laure in a French town where he is sent to find and destroy her.

7. Victoria Jones in The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh. Victoria has aged out of foster care and now she is trying to mother herself after having few positive role models in her life. Flowers and friends come together to help redeem Victoria from her past.

8. Billy Dunne in Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid. Billy's rise to fame comes at a cost to his family and his one true love, Camila. In an act of true redemption, he saves not only Daisy Jones but himself, finding his way home to his family.

9. Agnes in Burial Rites by Hannah Kent. The last person ever put to death by the state of Iceland, Agnes finds redemption in her time with a priest and the family where she is staying as she replays her life and her choices.

10. Circe in Circe by Madeline Miller.  Miller redeems Circe, of Greek Mythology. She is no longer the bad girl of the myths.




-Anne
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