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Hob

A named character with limited appearances.

minor

First appearance: the trumpet

Hob's tie to Lob is one of the pressures that moves Poetry—worth meeting in the text, not only on a cast list.

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With Lob (friendship): Hob and Lob are a pair of loyal, perhaps mischievous companions, often working…

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Character Web

1 connection

A slice of how Hob sits in the book — open the reader for the full interactive map.

LOLobHOHob

Relationship types

  • Friendship

Character groups

  • Birds and peripheral characters
  • Recurring named figures

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Narrative arc

Story tension across the book — this chapter sits in Exposition.

SetupEscalationAftermathClimax
  • Setup
  • Escalation
  • Breaking point
  • Aftermath
  • Closing

The emotional peak occurs when the speaker, despite physical pain from the storm, experiences a transcendent m…

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Relationships

  • Lob

    friendship · positive

    Hob and Lob are a pair of loyal, perhaps mischievous companions, often working together. How this plays out →

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See Hob in the trumpet
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