Character Analysis Of Challenges In Daniel's Story By Ann Burden

People having to face challenges is not uncommon, but some people have to face challenges that are uncommon. There are many books that outline how to face challenges by writing a story about breathtaking and wonderful characters. In these books, the characters have to face challenges no one should have to face, and then they have to overcome that challenge. Daniel in Daniel’s Story by Carol Matas, lived through the Holocaust and the ruthless reign of Hitler. Ann Burden in Z for Zachariah by Robert C. O’Brien, had to live alone after a nuclear war devastated her home and the radiation killed almost everybody on the planet. A Republican sniper, who had to fight a war that had separated many families, including his own. All of these characters

They all centered around loneliness, Mr. Loomis, food, and her home. Ann’s problems started when a nuclear war tore apart the world as she knew it. Ann had believed that she was the last living human on the planet after her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Klein, her cousin David, and her brother Joseph went off in search of more people. They never returned and Ann had to live alone. This was hard on her and anyone would agree that one might go a bit crazy. Ann had to suffer through loneliness and grief over her family’s death. She even contemplated death at one point in the first year of being alone, but ended up doing her best to survive anyways. She hated being alone, and in the first couple months she dreamed that someone would drive up to her home and she would have company. The dreams eventually stopped, and so did her thoughts of other people out there. Ann had to survive on her own for a year, learning how to live without electricity, running water, and readily available food. Because Ann could no longer buy all of her food, she had to grow everything from scratch and cultivate it as well. This made her both strong in mind and body. Ann’s observation skills also grew throughout her time alone, and she learned that only one part of the stream was safe to drink and bathe in. The rest was poisoned with radiation, a fact the Mr. Loomis did not realize when he stumbled upon Ann’s farm. Throughout Ann’s time alone, she became distrusting and jaded, so she ended up watching Mr. Loomis before letting him know that there was another person who lived there. Eventually, because of Mr. Loomis almost dying from radiation poisoning, Ann did introduce herself to him. She had to take care of him for around a month, and it affected her mentally and physically. She ended up feeling older than she actually was, and found it very ironic that she, the younger one, was taking care