Bronx Masquerade Character Chart

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Name: Wesley “Bad Boy” Boone

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Physical description: male, African-American

Relationships at school / home: best friends with Tyrone

School behavior: he’s a slacker, but he’s extremely intelligent

Life challenge / conflict: he’s figuring out what to do with his life if he survives through high school

Motivation / goal: keep Tyrone in school

Personality traits: gangsta’

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Name: Tyrone Bittings

Special Ability / talent: rapper / writer

Physical description: male, African-American

Relationships at school / home: best friends with Wesley, crush on Tanisha

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Life challenge / conflict: his father was a drunk who beat his mother. He was killed in a drive-ny shooting.

Motivation / goal: become a rapper

Personality traits: gangsta’

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Name: Chankara Troupe

Special Ability / talent: 

Physical description: female, not white

Relationships at school / home: annoyed by the “white girls”

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Life challenge / conflict: she’s surrounded by domestic violence

Motivation / goal: a life without violence

Personality traits: independent, honest

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Name: Raul Ramirez

Special Ability / talent: talented artist, likes to paint and draw

Physical description: male, Puerto Rican, attractive

Relationships at school / home: “Rican’s and brothers don’t always hit it off”, has crush on Lupe

School behavior: Loner, spends lunch painting at Mr. Ward’s desk

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Motivation / goal: become a famous painter that helps show the good things about his people

Personality traits: cocky, narcissistic, conceited, bold

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Name: Diondra Jordan

Special Ability / talent: talented artist, likes to draw and paint

Physical description: female, 6 feet tall

Relationships at school / home: people make fun of her at school, father resents her being a girl

School behavior: jealous of Luis’s confidence

Life challenge / conflict: discovering her identity

Motivation / goal: allowing other people see who she truly is

Personality traits: self-conscious, timid

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Name: Devon Hope, aka “Jump Shot”

Special Ability / talent: basketball player, loves to read, talented poet

Physical description: male, tall, good with his hands

Relationships at school / home: thinks Wesley and Tyrone are punks, relates with Diondra

School behavior: pretends to be a big athlete but spends a lot of time reading in the library and listening to jazz music. He’s tormented for this.

Life challenge / conflict: his outside doesn’t match his inside

Motivation / goal: stop hiding who he truly is and live life as himself

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Name: Lupe Algarin

Special Ability / talent: 

Physical description: female, pretty

Relationships at school / home: friends with and jealous of Gloria Martinez, misses her father, who abandoned her

School behavior: 

Life challenge / conflict: feels unloved and abandoned

Motivation / goal: have a baby so there is someone for her to love and someone to love her

Personality traits: daydreamer, desperate

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Name: Gloria Martinez

Special Ability / talent: multi-tasking

Physical description: female, Puerto Rican, “fine”

Relationships at school / home: admired by many, friends with Lupe

School behavior: tries hard but fails often, used to be a party girl

Life challenge / conflict: she is a teenage single mom

Motivation / goal: graduate from high school attend college

Personality traits: side-tracked

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Name: Janelle Battle

Special Ability / talent: smart, funny, good person

Physical description: female, overweight

Relationships at school / home: has a big crush on Devon

School behavior: 

Life challenge / conflict: she has very low self-confidence

Motivation / goal: to be pretty. She wants people to get to know her on the inside and not judge her on the inside

Personality traits: friendly, smart

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Name: Leslie Lucas

Special Ability / talent: 

Physical description: white

Relationships at school / home: lives with grandma, no friends initially, used to live in rich neighborhood and now she doesn’t

School behavior: lonely, never popular

Life challenge / conflict: her mom died, fitting in, no one to talk to

Motivation / goal: not be shy

Personality traits: keeps things private

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Name: Judianne Alexander

Special Ability / talent: sewing, fashion designer

Physical description: female, very dark skin, dresses skanky

Relationships at school / home: crush on Tyrone, stepfather tells her she’s ugly

School behavior: she feels like nobody likes her when it’s actually her pushing people away

Life challenge / conflict: 

Motivation / goal: get Tyrone to notice her

Personality traits: jealousy,

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Name: Tanisha Scott

Special Ability / talent: 

Physical description: pretty, light-skinned african-american

Relationships at school / home: Tyrone likes her, friends with Diondra, doesn’t like Judianne, people judge her as conceited because of her looks. chooses friends for thei insides, not their outsides.

School behavior: kind of a loner, pushes people away, friends with Diondra and Janelle because of their personalities

Life challenge / conflict: doesnt like her looks because it reminds her of her past.

Motivation / goal: to have people pay less attention to her, to blend in.

Personality traits: choosy with friends, not conceited,

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Name: Sterling S. Hughes

Special Ability / talent: the preacher, guitar player

Physical description: African-American, male

Relationships at school / home: lives with mom, Raynard is cousin, friends with Amy, “the brothas” laugh at him because of his faith,

School behavior: preaches to everyone, has lots of friends

Life challenge / conflict: has anger managmenet issues, family is very poor

Motivation / goal: become a science teacher

Personality traits: very religious, gets along with everybody

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Name: Amy Moscowitz

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Name: Sheila Gamberoni

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Name: Steve Ericson

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Name: Raynard Patterson

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Name: Porscha Johnson

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