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My Favorite Lit Characters as a Teen

Prompt: Who were your favorite fictional literature characters when you were a teenager?

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Jo or Josephine March (of Little Women) I absolutely adored her, at the time, possibly because she had a mind of her own. She was a rebel of the gentlest kind and she loved to read and scribble. I thought of her as my alter ego.

Prince Mishkin (of Idiot by Dostoyevski) He amazed me, still does. I couldn’t believe anyone could be so gentle, so understanding, and so full of love, to the point of gullibility, but he wasn't gullible either. No wonder, in my later years, a lit prof thought of him as being a Christ symbol.

Jane Eyre Jane was an unfortunate girl by birth, but she, too, was a strong female character who had to fend for herself, but she did it without hurting anyone and on her own terms.