Read this excerpt from "Wiley, His Mama, and the Hairy Man” in The People Could Fly But they heard a great bad laughin way off a
cross the river. And everybody sayin it, "That’s the Hairy Man.” . . . . papa never got across Jordan because the Hairy Man block his way. This excerpt introduces two enemies of the hero. two supporting characters. the protagonist and his father. the antagonist of the story.
Wiley lived with his mama in a ramshackle hut, deep in the swamp. Wiley’s father disappeared years ago and, whenever he asked his mama what had happened, she told him that the Hairy Man had got him.
