Reading Response #9

My Review of the Book- Part Two (May be Spoilers):

Characters:

The main protagonists are siblings Sydney and Turk. I’ve talked about their personalities in previous responses but I’ll give you a brief description. Sydney is the extroverted and stubborn redhead. (I find that a lot of girls with red hair in books are usually stubborn) While Turk is more introverted and quiet. Usually books have a more extroverted  and adventurous person and a more timid and introverted person. Though unlike a lot of them, they get along really well together.

I like the character development with Sydney and Turk and how they aren't completely 2D. You can see that there is more to them then their extro or introversion and that they make mistakes and aren’t perfect. You can see the difference to how both of them react to different situations. I like how their relationship and character changes throughout the story, at the beginning Sydney is more expressive and outspoken and is in charge of the plans and stuff, while Turk is the opposite but by the end it’s the opposite.

The secondary characters are interesting but they are a bit more flat. For example, the only thing we know about Shep is that he is a crazy homeless man that whistles a lot and helps Sydney and Turk. We don’t know anything about how he got to the Royal Woods, his family or anything of his life story. He doesn’t express very many different emotions except that he is always kind of goofy, which really isn’t an emotion. We know Kumar is an illegal immigrant from India working at several jobs a day to feed his family back home. We know that Kumar watches out for the kids at the end Kumar was the one that brought the family back together, risking some of his jobs. He seems to perfect to me and that he is just a Guardian Angel. The antagonists are mostly the people that live in the Royal Woods, like the bullies, Bob and Barb Buick, Dee-Dee etc. And they are all pretty much angry, boring rich people. I wish the secondary characters were a bit more 3D.

Overall a ⅘ for the characters.