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Character Analysis Of Richard In Richard By Carl Hassiens Skink

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Let me ask you a question, if something bad happened to your family, would you wait for the police to help, or would you be brave enough to go after them yourself? Richard in Carl Hassiens Skink no surrender, a wild adventurous realistic fiction novel, embarks on a journey to save his cousin.He made me believe that courage is doing what is right no matter the cost. When you think of deadly places with fatal creatures almost everywhere, you're definitely not thinking of Florda, right? In the wild forests surrounding the Choctawhatchee river there are territorial hogs with sharp tusks, 8-foot gators with spiked teeth, unrelenting storms, and psychos willing to shoot on sight. I think Hassien chose this setting to show that with courage can triumph always, even if you're a 14 year old who only has a nine iron and a old one eyed man to guide him. Yet Richard is willing and has the courage to stand up to these feats to save his cousin. In doing this Hassien shows real courage through Richard. …show more content…

Richard first struck me as uptight, scared and unwilling. Then he surprised me, he took up an adventure with an old man known as Skink, to find his cousin. Skink says “I intend to find your cousin, want to come?”so Richard goes on a hunt across florida to find her.His feats include tackling a man with a gun, lying to a deranged lunatic, and faces a wild boar to tell the tale! Richard shows incredible bravery doing this and proves my statement time and time again throughout this book, that bravery is doing what is right no matter the

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