Study Guide

Dragonwings Characters

By Laurence Yep

At the beginning of Dragonwings, Moon Shadow is a wide-eyed boy who simply wants to meet and love...

Windrider, or Father as we first know him, is a complicated character. Moon Shadow loves his...

Uncle Bright Star seems so dark, so cryptically evil almost, yet he has a heart of gold. When we...

Before we meet Miss Whitlaw in Chapter 6, we as readers might anticipate that she is nasty both...

Robin, the first "demon" kid that Moon Shadow meets, turns out to be all right. OK, so she's...

One of the first things Black Dog does after we are introduced to him is throw a steel knife on...

Though it seems like our only encounter with Mother is in Chapter 1, her presence actually weaves...

We readers aren't allowed much access into the world of Grandmother; the little we do know is...

Hand Clap's name is pretty fun, both because he is a notorious exaggerator and because he is the...

Lefty is the poet and the reformed gambler of the Company. The figure of his missing right hand...

White Deer is a vegetarian and a devout Buddhist. Though he is an herbivore, however, White Deer...

We meet Mr. Alger early on in Moon Shadow's story, and the narrator soon tells us it is to be a...

Old Deerfoot is a crucial middle man in the Lees' story. Without Mr. Deerfoot, the Lees would not...