Roz Thompson
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Character Key:
Display Name:
Roz Thompson
Sort Name:
Thompson, Roz
Parent:
Race:
Black
Gender:
Male
Class:
Free Black
Rank:
Minor
Vitality:
Alive
First Mentioned:
Biography:
The grandson of Pappy Thompson, Roz is there when Joe Christmas disrupts the church service and knocks the old man down. The "six foot tall" Roz is so furious that he pulls out his razor hollering "I'll kill him" (323). The Negroes in the church think Joe is 'white,' and they try to restrain Roz, but according to a member of the congregation, he didn't "care much who he had to cut to carve his path . . . to where that white man was" (324). Joe defeats his attack, however, by knocking him down too, with a bench, and fracturing his skull.
Individual or Group:
Individual
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