I'll Give You The Sun Characters

In the chapters for which we're granted an all-access pass to what's going on in Noah's head, he's about 14 years old. Like a lot of kids his age, he's having a bit of an identity crisis. The diffe...

When we first meet Jude, it's through Noah's eyes. "She's shiny and funny and normal—not a revolutionary—and talks to everybody," he tells us. (1.98) When we meet her at age 16, she's barely re...

Dianna Sweetwine, Noah and Jude's mom, spends most of the book in her grave: when her kids were 14, she was in a car accident that killed her on impact. In life, she was vibrant, well liked, and we...

A Colombian sculptor who lives in Lost Cove, Guillermo Garcia is Jude's mentor and was Dianna's one and only (you know, when she got over her husband). In the wake of his beloved's death, Guillermo...

When Noah meets his neighbor, Brian is the new kid in town. Much to Noah's surprise, he's not like other guys (you know, the surftards). From the moment they meet, Noah finds him to be totally fasc...

Oscar is a college kid with a leather jacket and a former substance abuse problem. Basically, your classic bad boy. He's in bad shape, meaning stupid drunk, when Noah first meets him. (Oscar is the...

There's Grandma Sweetwine and then there's Grandma Sweetwine's ghost. The former was super close with Jude before she died; the latter haunts her granddaughter (in a friendly way), offering up advi...

Husband to Dianna and father to Noah and Jude, Benjamin Sweetwine is a professor—specifically, a scientist who studies parasites. According to Noah, he's "glow-in-the-dark normal" (1.57). Everyth...

In his colorful way, Noah divides the world of his peers into "surftards" (dumb surfer dudes) and "hornets" (aggressively flirty girls). Guess what? He doesn't really like them. Who woulda thunk? T...