Red (Redford)

Redford “Red” Kenny is our main character of the book “Five Survive”. This page may have many spoilers from the book so I urge you if you have not yet, to read the book before you look any further. This wiki is incomplete, so feel free to add or correct any details.

## Description

Red is described with having dark blonde hair and wide-set dark blue eyes and a too-pale glow on her skin. She is also said to have lots of freckles. Her hair is in a ponytail with loose bangs at the front. She also has freckles. Herself and her best friend Maddy both look alike apart from their eye colour and that Maddy's hair is a few shades darker. She is the same height as Maddy. She also is said to be like her deceased mother Grace Kenny. Red turned eighteen in the first week of September

## Family

Red lives with her drunken father, in a very cold house in Philadelphia. Their home used to be warm when her mother Grace Kenny was around.

Grace Kenny an ex officer captain is Red's mother and she passed away a few years before this book takes place. Red was 13 when her mother died. She was murdered by being shot twice in the back of the head by her old friend Catherine Lavoy also known as Maddy and Oliver’s mother.

## Relationship with others in the RV at the start

Maddy: Maddy is Red's best friend, and they have been since birth. Their mothers met in college and became friends so their friendship goes farther back then their memory does.

Oliver: Oliver is Maddy's older brother. The book states that “There are times when Red thought of Oliver as a borrowed big brother; she’d known him her entire life, longer than Maddy if you thought of it like that. But then there were other times she wasn’t sure he even remembered her name” (page 26 chapter 3)

Reyna: Reyna is Oliver's girlfriend. From what I gathered in the book Red does not personally know Reyna but they do know of each other. Red states that she always sees Reyna smiling up at Oliver, so she only knows Reyna as a girlfriend of Oliver and not on a personal level.

Simon: Simon is a classmate of Red. Red finds Simon easy to get on with “Simon had always been able to get away with anything, he was too funny, too quick with it. You can’t stay mad at him.” (Chapter one page 7)

Arthur: Arthur is Red's secret crush. It is explained she has only known him about half a year from Simon's basketball team. Arthur lives far away from the rest of the RV members. We see that Red is very observant of him as on page 12 she notices a slight sheen of sweat on his forehead and wonders does she look at Arthur too often. We also find on the next page that Arthur shows interest in Red and was always kind to her.

## Personality

She has deep care for the people she loves. She can be quite sensitive and shy. She is sometimes reserved with her feelings. She had a tough life at home. Her dad being an alcoholic, and her mom being passed away which really affected her. She said she had to take care of her father which we learned at the beginning of the book.

She is seen to have slight issues with memory, and attention span. When playing a game of 20 questions with her best friend Maddy, she forgot her person, place, or thing. Throughout the book, she was also quite fixated on the pattern of the curtains. It is thought that she has ADHD.