In the story, Hamadi , Susan is a Dynamic character in the end because she has a change of looking in the past to looking forward to the future. This started when she “maybe she thought of him as an escape, the way she thought about the sphinx at Giza” (Nye 224). This shows that she thinks of him and when she does it reminds her of her childhood and the Sphinx at Giza. This also shows that she knew him before and were friends with him. Then, she looks to the future after Hamadi tells her “‘ We go on. On and on. We don’t stop where it hurts.’”(Nye 232).This shows that hes telling her that she needs to ignore the past and keep going in the future. In the end she went from looking to the past all the time to looking to the future instead because