Characters
Whirligigs
Side Stories
Literary Devices
Misc.
100
This character travels across the country for penance for his crimes.
Who is Brent?
100
This figure sits on top of a great white whale on Brent's whirligig in California.
What is a mermaid?
100
This young Korean boy was forced to play the violin until his music teacher stepped in.
Who is Tony?
100

He tightened down his sleeping bag, struggled into his pack, and set off, staggering like a grizzly walking upright.

What is a simile? 

100
Brent travels by this across the country.
What is a bus?
200
This character is killed instantly by the main character's suicide attempt.
Who is Lea Zamora?
200
This figure holds an instrument and was an angel until Brent modified the design.
What is the harp player?
200
This logical, down-to-earth girl ends up marrying a Jazz trumpeter later in life.
Who is Steph?
200

The bus' gears growled.

What is personification? 

200
The author of Whirligig
Who is Paul Fleischman?
300
This character is the only person on Brent's journey to hear his story of attempting suicide.
Who is the artist?
300
This character is depicted as the clarinet player in the marching band on one of Brent's whirligigs.
Who is Lea Zamora?
300
This character lived through the Holocaust.
Who is Jenny's grandmother?
300

He felt himself a departing sailor, leaving the sight of land behind.

What is a metaphor?

300
This is Jenny's grandmother's nickname for her.
What is "kindelah"?
400
These characters immediately oppose the idea of Brent going on a journey to construct whirligigs.
Who are Brent's parents?
400
These are hanging around the neck of Brent's fourth and final whirligig.
What are seashells?
400
A street-sweeper
Who is Flaco?
400

"you're intelligent, funny, loyal, another Marie Curie in our midst" 

What is an allusion? 

400
The setting of the story in the beginning of the novel
What is Chicago, Illinois?
500

These are the two characters names from Weeksboro, Maine who are walking through the snowy forest in their chapter? 

Who are Steph and Alexandra 

500

These are the locations of the Whirligigs in the order they were built.

What is Bellevue, WA

San Diego, CA

Miami, FL

then Weeksboro, Maine. 

500
The name of the bird that Flaco wishes to see
What is a shearwater?
500

"A shearwater... I wished that I could be that...live alone, far away...very peaceful" 

What is symbolism? 

500
This is the date Brent's bus pass expires.
What is August 17th?
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