Who are some book characters that are crippled?

Question

They need to be kind. I'm trying to find someone similar to Mrs. Olinski in the view from saturday.

Answer 1

The problem in lookig for postive images of disability in literature is that because disabled people have long been segregated from the rest of society (eg in institutions. special schools etc) rhat they are treated with suspicion and fear by non-disabled people. Leading to misrepresentation, stereotyping and disability becoming associated in the public's mind with evil.

This is as true of popular fiction (Quasimodo) as it is of highbrow art (Richard III)

Clifford Chatterley in D H Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover (Lawrence uses Clifford's impotence as compared to Mellors' virility to make a statement about the English class system.) (portrated unsympathetically as cold and aloof).

Blind Pugh and Long John Silver in Treasure Island by R L Stevenson (both portrayed as evil bitter and twisted)

Captain Hook in Peter Pan by J M Barrie (evil)

Dr Strangelove in film of the same name as played by Peter Sellers (Mad and Bad).

Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (sentimental portrayal)

Hopalong Cassidy in various Western screenplays and pulp fiction (hero rising above disability)

Chief Ironside in TV series portrayed by Raymond Burr (hero rising above disability)

Answer 2

Tiny Tim from A Christmas Carol

The scientist who creates the unbreakble code from Digital Fortress By Dan Brown

Quasimodo from The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo

Panamon Creel from The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks

Can't think of any more, sorry.

Answer 3

Klara, the young girl who stayed in the Alps with Heidi
Tiny Tim from A Christmas Carol
Philip Carey from Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage

Answer 4

of mice and adult males crooks the black guy that has a tendency to the horses is lonely because of the fact he's black between white ranch workers and whilst he isn't precisely crippled he has lower back issues this is the e book I actually take into consideration even nevertheless you're in all danger thinking of something else i myself ask your self approximately those pretentiously gentle self righteous solutions in which you're accused of racism how ridiculous everybody who has study older novels is conscious that ***** grow to be a accepted be conscious no longer many many years in the past they ought to truly hate examining american authors like faulkner in the event that they even study something different than human beings magazine

Answer 5

Creb from the Earth Children Series is crippled... he's a neanderthal though, so probably not similar to mrs. olinski. ;)

Answer 6

The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Quasimodo is the character.

Answer 7

Philip Carey is the protagonist in "Of Human Bondage" by Somerset Maugham. He is a medical student who has a club foot. He is too kind, and it gets him into all sorts of grief.

Answer 8

Professor Xavier from X-Men (Is this a book??)

Marjan from Shadow Spinner by Susan Fletcher

Answer 9

Izzy, Willy, Nilly by Voight
The Acorn People

Answer 10

Um in eragon his teacher is a cripple his name also means cripple who is whole