Introduction
Felicity Roger Pickle is the protagonist of the
story; the entire book is based on her point of
view and her perspectives. She has an
unusual hobby of collecting words and
noticing them in strange places, which could
be her own unique magical ability. The
amazing book follows Felicity’s journey of
self-discovery: learning more about herself,
her place in the world and feeling at home for
once.
Physical Appearance
Although Felicity’s appearance wasn’t
meticulously described, the reader induces a
lot about how her description mirrors her
personality.
“too-long bangs hanging down over my eyes”
This quote show that her red hair – same
colour as her father’s – forms long bangs that
almost cover her eyes, which clearly show
that she doesn’t like people looking towards
her as it might make her feel vulnerable.
Additionally, this might mean that her eyes
are very expressive of her emotions.
Background
Felicity has a unique story which led to her to
her unusual situation. Her mother always
moved from place to another in hopes of
finding magic – true magic; hence, felicity
rarely settled into any place, never formed
friendships, and never found a place to call
home for a decent amount of time. However,
other reasons contributed to their “gypsy” of helping Jonah despite his family being
and “nomadic” lifestyle just like trying to “cursed.”
escape from undesired memories linked to a
specific place.
Relationships & interactions
Felicity didn’t have much friends as she was
always moving form one place to another.
Personality However, she was always with her mother
and sister. Frannie Jo sees Felicity as her role
Felicity's character is undeniably creative and
model, but that doesn’t negate that she is a
empathetic; therefore, she can quickly detect
follower at sometimes. Jonah, her first friend
emotions, like her mother’s sadness. She also
helps her get over her fear of public speaking,
has a special love for words and poems as her
and he helped her start her mission of finding
special ability is to collect words that others
out more about the Threadbare.
aren’t aware of their existence. To add more,
she is extremely optimistic, and she is always
on the lookout for amazing things even when
no one has positive expectations. She aspires
Development
to find real magic. She basis most of her Throughout Felicity’s journey of self-
actions upon her emotions like the decision discovery, she was able to make new friends
in Midnight Gulch –like Jonah, who enabled
her to overcome the serious problem she had,
the fear of public speaking or as she likes to
say it, “arranging the words and saying them
out loud.”
Moreover, her character changes to a more
leader-like one when she embarks on a quest
full of determination to bring back magic to
Midnight Gulch.