Leslie’s parents are relatively well off as both are writers who lived in the city of Washington but decide to move down to Lark Creek, the countryside, and spend some time there. Jess and Leslie later become friends and built a magical garden of Terabithia where they come to feel different and everything they lack in their families until Leslie’s eventual death in the same garden.Ī manlike girl about the same age as Jess. Both start out being competitors at a school sprint competition with Leslie – a girl – besting all the other athletes mostly guys, Jess is one of them. Jess eventually finds a friend and companion in Leslie, her close-door neighbor but also an enemy turn ally. Readers notice how, from the start, his parents don’t give him the much-needed attention and care that he seeks – because they’re either too busy with work, or preoccupied tending to the needs of Jess’ other siblings. Jess comes from a family of seven – where he is the only boy child and feels quite lost and lonely in it. He is a 10-year-old and the protagonist of Katherine Paterson’s ‘ Bridge to Terabithia’. Let’s explore these characters and their specific roles in ‘ Bridge to Terabithia’. With ‘ Bridge to Terabithia’, readers find that the characters are trimmed and well-suited for their roles – each tailored to live out their fate at the cause of the attention-grabbing events in the book.
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