Daughter of Time Discussion Guide
I. Characters
A. Alan Grant
-works as a police officer at Scotland Yard
-in hospital because he fell through a trap door chasing a criminal; "bed-borne" (12)
-has a broken leg
-very bored (11) received many books to read, but has no interest in them because they're all the same to him, "Authors today wrote so much to a pattern that their public expected it." (14)
-has a passion for faces (19)
-could always tell a person by their face (27)
-did not believe in a criminal face, "If there was only one kind of crime, it might be possible; but crimes being wide as human nature, if a policeman started to put faces into categories he would be sunk.(28)"
-becomes interested in a picture of Richard III, "Of all the portraits Grant had seen this afternoon this was the most individual." (29)
-could not really describe the type of person the portrait was portraying (30)
-at first, he thinks of Richard as the villain he is portrayed in history books(30)
-when looking at the picture, villainy did not come to his mind at first (33)
-all he knows at first is that Richard III is the younger brother of Edward IV (33)
-knew that he died in Bosworth and was the last Plantagenet (34)
-Grant is only interested in dreary faces (42);
The historical Edward IV, a character in Shakespea...
Richard & Friend
the gang + Richard DawkinsB. Nurse Ingham
-"The Midget" (11)
-from Lytham St. Anne's (12)
-"...but she dealt with his six-feet-odd with an off-hand east that Grant found humiliating. Weights meant nothing, apparently, to The Midget. (12)"
-first impression of the portrait of Richard was that he had liver problems (31)
-believes that Richard killed the two princes by smothering them with pillows (41)
-she doesn't like the portrait of Richard (41)
-tells Grant that Tyrell...