# Captain Jinks — Captain Jinks, Hero character guide

> Captain Jinks in Captain Jinks, Hero by Ernest Howard Crosby.

**Role:** major

**First appearance:** 0001-captain-jinks-hero

## Snapshot

A farm boy who christened his own father 'Colonel' before he could lisp straight, Sam Jinks grows into a soldier whose reverence for authority may prove his undoing.

## Who they are

Sam begins as a tenderhearted only child on a Homeville farm, grieving a pet rooster one day and drilling with a birthday box of lead soldiers the next. His two inherited traits — softness toward animals and an almost religious respect for authority — sit in uneasy tension, since the second keeps swallowing the first. That boyhood habit of obedience, planted so early, is the hinge on which his whole military career will turn.

## Relationships

### [Sam Jinks](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/captain_jinks_hero_se/characters/sam_jinks)

_family_

Captain Jinks is Sam Jinks' father or close paternal figure, sharing a familial bond with occasional conflict.

### [Sam Jinks](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/captain_jinks_hero_se/characters/sam_jinks)

_family_

Captain Jinks is Sam Jinks' father or close paternal figure, sharing a familial bond with occasional conflict.

### [Sam Jinks](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/captain_jinks_hero_se/characters/sam_jinks)

_family_

Captain Jinks is Sam Jinks' father or close paternal figure, sharing a familial bond with occasional conflict.

## In the story

### [Captain Jinks, Hero](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/captain_jinks_hero_se/chapters/captain-jinks-hero)

Sam Jinks, now a captain, is hailed as a hero but grapples with the hollowness of his newfound glory.

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