# Before Adam — Character guide

> Key figures in Before Adam by Jack London.

- [Red-Eye](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/before_adam_se/characters/red_eye.md): Red-Eye dominates the Folk by sheer brutality, beating his wives to death and seizing new ones from other males without consequence. When he drags the Singing One from her husband Crooked-Leg and snaps the little man's n
- [Lop-Ear](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/before_adam_se/characters/lop_ear.md): Lop-Ear is Big-Tooth's closest comrade among the Folk, a young male who shares his wanderings, his winters, and his narrow escapes. When Big-Tooth is struck by an arrow, Lop-Ear masters his terror and stays, gnawing the 
- [The Swift One](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/before_adam_se/characters/the_swift_one.md): The Swift One is Big-Tooth's preferred companion — soft-voiced, strong, and uninterested in fighting, the one he seeks out for food and bird-nesting. She refuses to join Lop-Ear and the other young people, dropping behin
- [Old Saber-Tooth](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/before_adam_se/characters/old_saber_tooth.md): Old Saber-Tooth is the horde's reigning nightmare, a beast who pursues the Folk up the bluff and nearly forces his way into their caves. When the tribe pelts him from above, he becomes a spectacle — roaring, sliding, tak
- [The Chatterer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/before_adam_se/characters/the_chatterer.md): A talkative and nervous member of the narrator's tribe.
- [Old Marrow-Bone](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/before_adam_se/characters/old_marrow_bone.md): An elderly member of the tribe, often a source of wisdom or caution.
- [The Singing One](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/before_adam_se/characters/the_singing_one.md): A mysterious figure who communicates through song, possibly a spirit.
- [Broken-Tooth](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/before_adam_se/characters/broken_tooth.md): A rival ape-man with a broken tooth, often in conflict with the narrator.
- [The Fire People](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/before_adam_se/characters/the_fire_people.md): The Fire People live in caves much like the Folk's, but with fires burning in their open space, women in animal skins, and boys shooting bows. Their prosperity has pushed them outward, and their expansion presses the Fol
- [Big-Tooth](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/before_adam_se/characters/big_tooth.md): A large and aggressive member of the narrator's tribe.
- [Crooked-Leg](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/before_adam_se/characters/crooked_leg.md): A small, injured child of the tribe who is cared for by others.
- [Big Face](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/before_adam_se/characters/big_face.md): A hairy-faced member of the narrator's tribe, possibly a leader.
- [The Hairless One](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/before_adam_se/characters/the_hairless_one.md): A strange, hairless human encountered by the tribe.
- [The Tree People](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/before_adam_se/characters/the_tree_people.md): A group of ape-like beings who live in trees and avoid the ground.
- [The Folk](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/before_adam_se/characters/the_folk.md): A generic term for the narrator's own tribe or people.
- [Long-Lip](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/before_adam_se/characters/long_lip.md): A minor member of the tribe with a distinctive long lip.

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