Character Sketches In this novel, the main protagonist is a 14-15-year-old boy by the name of Sam Temple. He is of medium build with tanned skin due to the fact that he is a surfer and is also good looking, or called a cutie/cute by most girls. As said in the novel “He was a surfer who didn’t hang out with surfers…He was good looking, but not so that girls thought of him as a hottie.”(Grant 5). He also has dark hair and eyes, like he commented in the novel “He had dark hair and dark eyes, not much different from Sam himself.”(Grant 139). As for his personality, Sam is a natural born leader but doesn’t realize, nor wants to accept it, even when Astrid was trying to tell him, “They sense you’re a leader, Sam. They look to you.”, all Sam said …show more content…
At the beginning, Sam was known as someone who wasn’t really social. Most people knew him by “School bus Sam, because “when he was in seventh grade. The class had been on the way to a field trip when the bus driver had suffered a heart attack.”(Grant 5) and he had saved everyone but then afterward he started to fade away, Astrid even said “I don’t know. It was like you just…faded.”(Grant 71). Continuing into the story Sam slowly became more of a leader, even though he denied it, almost anyone -if not everyone- would follow him. Especially in the end when everyone chanted “Sam, Sam, Sam.” (Grant …show more content…
Especially when orc-one of the sheriffs- killed a girl by the name of Bette. Also when Sam escapes after being betrayed by Quinn, then captured and attacked by Caine who uses his powers on Sam by sending him “flying across the room”(Grant 247).With the help of Eldido and surprisingly Quinn, they must find and save Astrid and he brother little Pete, who is running from someone in Caine's posse who is trying to kill them. When Sam’s group finds Astrid and her brother, they must go on the run to hide from Caine and his