Characters Analysis:
I can infer that Tom Walkers wife is a greedy
person, because the author said "She urged her husband to comply with the
black man's term and secure what would make them wealthy for life.” The author
used indirect characterizations. I can also infer that his wife hid stuff from
her husband, the author used direct characterizations. “Whatever the women
would lay her hands on she hid away.” The author also says that Tom’s wife was
miserly; the author also used direct characterization. “He had a wife as
miserly as himself.”
I
can infer that the black man is in fact the devil himself. I could infer, when
the author wrote, "I am he to whom the red people devoted this spot and
now and then roasted a white man by way of sweet smelling sacrifice." The
author used indirect characterization. I can also infer that the black man is
the devil because of how the author described him. “His face was neither black
nor copper colour, but swarthy and dingy and begrimed with soot, as if he had
been accustomed to toil among fires and forges.” Once I heard that I pictured the devil in my
head.
I can infer that Tom Walker is
a nosy person, because in the story it said, "The husband was
continually prying about to detect her secret hoards." The author used
direct characterization. I can also infer that Tom Walker is a very brave
man, because he was not scared to go through the swamp where others say that it
was an evil place, and also because he faced the devil without fearing him.
