The+Girl+Who+Loved+Tom+Gordon+Characters

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At the beginning of the novel she is a typical nine-year-old who loves her daddy, loves pop music, and adores the cool catch phrases her best friend Pepsi likes to use. Her parents are divorced. Full name is Patricia, and she gets lost in the woods with nothing but a Walkman, her packed lunch, and her Red Sox cap, which was signed by Tom Gordon. She goes into the woods with her mom and brother. She loves the Red Sox, especially the pitcher Tom Gordon. While she is in the woods with her mom and brother, who always argue, she wonders off to go to the bathroom. When she is done she tries to take a short cut but winds up getting lost in the woods and there is no one around to help her. She is lost for a while and then she see's a hallucination of Tom Gordon coming to save her. She believes that when Tom Gordon wins the game and gets the save, she will be saved and reunited with her family.=====

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The closer for the Boston Red Sox. It is Trisha's favorite player, including her father. When she gets lost in the woods she envisions him and thinks he is actually there. He acts as her guide and her guardian, and somehow shows her the path to get saved.=====

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He is a friend-less teenager. He's also Trisha's brother. His parents got divorced, causing him and Trisha to move to another town. Pete and his mother always fight. They do not get along at all. Pete and his mother make the household hard to live in. Pete wants to live with his dad in his house, but his mother wont let him. Sometimes he just likes to pick a fight for no reason. Because of Pete and his mothers constant fighting, Trisha is sometimes forgotten.=====

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Quilla Anderson is Trisha's mom. Quilla and her son Pete were fighting in the woods (during the hike), while Trisha went to the bathroom in the woods. She and Pete forgot about her and Trisha got lost. Trisha's mom and dad are divorced but they got back together when they were looking for Trisha in the woods.=====