The Piano Lesson- August Wilson
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Doaker Charles
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Berniece and Boy Willie's uncle. Owner of the household in which the play take place.
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Winning boy charles -
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doakers brother, very old, tries to seem successful.
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Boy Willie
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Plans to sell the family piano and buy the land his ancestors once worked as slaves, 30 years old, impulsive, land key to equality for him
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Lymon jackson
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Boy Willie's longtime friend
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Berniece
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Boy Willie's sister, widow, still blames brother for husbands death, strong religious, superstitious
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Crawley
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Berniece's dead husband
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Maretha
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Berniece's young daughter who is beginning to learn piano
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Avery Brown
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A preacher who is trying to build his congregation.
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Whining Boy
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Washed up recording star, returns to family when broke
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Grace
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A young, urban woman who Boy Willie and Lymon each try to pick up
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Parchman Prison Farm
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Where Boy Willie has been serving his sentence
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Sutter
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guy who used to own the land that Willie's ancestors worked as slaves. He died. His ghost haunts the place and keeps berniece playing piano.
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Pitterford
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gave them watermelons.
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July 4, 1911
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Day Boy Charles (Boy Willie's father), Doaker, and Wining Boy stole the piano from the Sutters
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The Ghosts of the Yellow Dog
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all the hobos who dies in the train with Boy Charles when the lynchers set it on fire
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Henry Porter
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man Lymon bought the truck from
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Stoner -
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a county in west Virginia where boy willie and lymon heard about the ghosts of yellow dog
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Sutter -
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family that owned the charles family during slavery
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Cleotha
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Wining Boy's wife who died
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Mama Ola
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Berniece and Boy Willie's mother
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Pittford -
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man who gave lymon and willie watermelons for 10 dollars
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Yellow dog
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railroad doker built, called yazoo delta
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Irene Kaufman Settlement House
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where Maretha goes to school
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Jim Stovall
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tried to buy sutter's land; lymon owes him 100
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Coreen
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Doaker's dead wife
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Jack Slattery -
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doaker stays at his place
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The Good Shepherd Church of God in Christ
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Name of church Avery wants to start
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Oh Lord Berta
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song Boy Willie and Lymon sing about Parchman Prison Farm
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Sunflower Counter
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where are the whites live
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Joel Nolander
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Sutter's friend - Sutter wanted acquire his piano for anniversary present
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Miss Ophelia
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Sutter's wife, piano was an anniversary gift to her, willie boy carved her and his family's faces on the piano
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Jim Miller
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Man Lymon and Boy Willie were getting wood for when they stole some for themselves (when Crawley got killed)
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L.D. Jackson
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Lymon's father
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Dolly
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Grace's friend that Lymon tries to pick up
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Leroy
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Grace's old lover that swung by when Grace and Boy Willie were together
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French perfume
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What Lymon gives to Berneice
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Patchneck Red
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Fellow Wining Boy rambles about
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Eddies Restaurant -
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restaurant on yulie and kirckpatrick
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Willshaw place -
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where avery used to plant cotton
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Gulf building -
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where avery works doewntown
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Squirrel Hill
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where white folks live
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Cloetha
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Winning boy's deceased x-wife
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Alberta Samuels
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Cloetha's sister
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Rupert Bates
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Winning boy's cousin
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Willa Bryant
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Writes letter to Winning Boy
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Jim Miller
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Boy Willie and Lymon hauled wood for him
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Robert Sutter
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Owned the Charles family during slavery
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Joel Nolander/Nolander brothers
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originally owned piano
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Willie Boy
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Doaker's grandfather
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Boy Charles
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father of Berniece and Boy Willie, killed by Sutter
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Rhumba Theater
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where they have picture shows
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L.D Jackson
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Lymon's father
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Mr. Cohen
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renting the lot to avery for his church
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Benny Diamonds store
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lot next to where avery wants the church
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Mama Ola
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Mother of Boy willie and berniece
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Grace
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Girl Boy Willie brings back to the house
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Dolly
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Girl Lymon was with
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Leroy
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Grace's last man she boned doggy style/dropping it like its hot
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Reverend C.L. Thompson
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Boy willie brought his dead puppy to his church when he was younger
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Patchneck Red (Old John D)
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a feared man that winning boy whooped up on back in the day
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Ed Saunders, Howard Peterson, Charlie Webb-
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men that the Ghosts of Yellow Dog have gotten
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Robert Smith—
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man that shot Becky's boy
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Great Causer—
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a reference to God by Avery
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"Old Ship of Zion"—
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song that Avery wants Berniece to play on the piano
