How Does Merwin Change Throughout The Play

In the book, Big Tree, by Brian Selznick, I chose the prompt “ How does a character you chose change throughout your book?” There are many different ways different characters change throughout the story, one of them is Merwin. He changes from being ignorant, to becoming more aware of his surroundings. One piece of evidence that supports this is that after he sees that the Beautiful Mountain is the Terrible Volcano, he realizes that he’s been wrong the entire time. At the beginning, Merwin didn’t hear any voices calling to him. Louise, his sister, did. He thought she was crazy. But at the end, Merwin starts hearing that same voice, because he listened, the same way Louise did. As you can see, Merwin changes throughout the story in different ways, and

For more than half the book, he is set on going to the Beautiful Mountain, but after, he is mad at himself for doing that. He knows that he should have listened to Louise, and not himself. But he got stuck in a dry ravine, and he desperately wanted to talk to Louise. But he had to wait eons and eons for that, until a butterfly helped him. On P. 328, Merwin whispers to himself””Louise, “Merwin whispered as a strange coldness filled his body,”that’s what the voice was telling, wasn’t it. The Beautiful Mountain and the Terrible Volcano…they’re the same place.” This proves that he admits the voice that Louise heard was real, and that Louise was right from the start. If Merwin listened to Louise, none of this would have happened, and Merwin wouldn’t have to regret this moment. But because of this, he learned to never do anything ever again he would regret, because he might spend a long time thinking about it. This is the first reason how Merwin changes throughout the story. The second reason how Merwin changes throughout the story is that he starts to hear a voice that he couldn’t before. The voice is called the Old One and it is the Earth. The Old One sends messages via root to every