1. Vita

2. Is playing the Trojan Horse in their play Lives on West Eighty-sixth Street with her mom, their cat Marlowe, and their birds, the Keatses, John & John Has lived in this apartment her whole life Images: Clip art, clip art, http://www.brackenbird.com/bird-info, clip arthttp://www.brackenbird.com/bird-info

3. Hasn’t seen her father for almost three years Writes a letter to her father every night, but doesn’t send them because she doesn’t know where to send them; she puts them in shoe boxes at the back of her closet Burned all the letters to her father in Argus’ old dish and spilled the ashes in Argus’ urn Knows all of Helen’s lines for the play Images: Clip art

4. She wants to be beautiful. “Would Daddy think I was beautiful?” She’s really jealous that she didn’t have the role of Helen. “I hate Helen. That’s all I can say. I hate her. Helen McGuire is playing Helen, so Mr. Dodd says, because, out of the entire sixth grade, she most embodies Helen of Troy.”