# John Kent — Pollyanna Grows Up character guide

> John Kent in Pollyanna Grows Up by Eleanor H. Porter.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Kent

**First appearance:** 0032-xxxi-after-long-years

## Snapshot

A long-absent father whose name and fate hang over Jamie's story, he is the missing piece the Carew family has hunted for eight years.

## Who they are

John Kent's identity surfaces through the tangled clues surrounding Jamie, the lame boy in Murphy's Alley who cannot remember his mother and whose father died without revealing his name. His disappearance is the wound that turned Ruth Carew's house into a tomb and set Della searching. Until he is found, he exists as absence and hope, the reason the novel's central reunion matters.

## Links

- HTML: https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/pollyanna_grows_up_se/characters/john_kent
- Book: https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/pollyanna_grows_up_se
- All characters: https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/pollyanna_grows_up_se/characters