He carries a parrot named Bandit on his shoulder which can repeat several words for emphasis.Ī twelve-year-old girl that Dave meets during his first rent party, she is home schooled and lives in a reddish stone, three stories tall house which has well-known leisure class parties. Nicknamed Solly the Gonif, Solomon is the old white man that attends rent parties and tells people their fortune for money. The protagonist, an eleven-year-old Jewish boy known for always getting in trouble and a daredevil who becomes an orphan. However, Dave needs to return to the orphanage every morning, but this new lifestyle isn't always what it seems. Dave even meets Irma Lee, a girl to whom he is quickly attracted to although the book does not make it clear if its romantic or not. He enters the party with Solly and discovers a whole new world of jazz music, money and glamour-the Harlem Renaissance.
He finds a nearby party and bumps into Solly, an old man who 'reads cards' to get money. Sick of the austere lifestyle, Dave sneaks out of the orphanage in the middle of the night and roams the streets of Harlem. However, Dave enjoys the art lessons and explores his talented, creative side. Doom takes the only thing Dave has left from his father, a wood carving of his family boarding Noah's Ark. Doom) is abusive and hits the boys with a yardstick. The bedrooms are cold, the food is awful (and is often stolen by bullies) and the superintendent, Mr. When Dave first arrives at the orphanage, he absolutely hates it. Ida sends Dave to a Hebrew orphanage, the Hebrew Home For Boys.
Always having lived under the shadow of his older brother Gideon, he is abandoned by his stepmother Ida while Gideon goes to live with his uncle. More recently, his father dies after falling off a roof of a house he was helping to build. This gives her the opportunity to include the Yiddish language which is spoken by the character, Solomon Gruber.ĭave Caros, a teenager troublemaker, lost his mother during his birth. Levine bases the setting of her book in the Lower East Side of New York City in the Hebrew community. This book was inspired by leading figures in the arts during the Harlem Renaissance and her father, David Carson, whose childhood was spent in an orphanage. Dave at Night is a young adult, historical fiction novel written by award-winning author Gail Carson Levine in 1999.
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