Squid Character Analysis

Although it might seem fun to get to live on your own private island with your family, after a while it may get boring or lonely. Throughout the book many of the main characters love for Lizzie island changes to hatred and they are eager to leave. The first character who shows there need to get off the island is Hannah, Secondly Squid also no longer wants to live there and lastly Alastair’s feelings about the island drastically changes the older he gets.
The first person whose feelings of Lizzie Island change drastically as they grow older is Alastair. He loved being close to the whales and exploring the island even more than Squid. “‘Are you and dad having a fight?’ ‘No’ she said ‘we had an argument. A discussion’ ‘about leaving the island?’

“The three of them went off….. She didn’t see them for nearly four hours, until the helicopter was due to leave”93. This shows that as a kid Squid could go off and play for hours on end even though they didn’t have normal kid things to play with, she loved the island so much she learned to have fun with what she had. Squid’s feelings about the island change after the death of her brother and the birth of her daughter. This is shown after she returns to visit with her daughter “‘why’d you wait so long to bring her home?’ ‘it isn’t home’” 137.Squid now dislikes like the island so much that even though she grew up there she took years to visit and doesn’t even consider her home anymore. When Squid’s daughter starts to like Lizzie Island she gets worried because she doesn’t want to stay “‘are you thinking of staying?’ ‘No’ says Squid with an utter scorn. ‘I’d go nuts if I had to live here again’ “177. Even though she wants her daughter to be happy she knows if she had to live on the island in such isolation again she would go crazy and might end up like her

‘Could I get a job here?’ she asked. ‘Do you need an assistant or something’” 50. This shows that she wanted to stay on the island so much that she was willing to be an assistant for someone who she has just met and was practically a stranger. Even a few years after she moves onto Lizzie Island Hannah still loves being there, she doesn’t even want to leave to give birth to their children “Hannah was pregnant. She was twenty years old. She wanted their child to be born on the island.” 32. This shows that she was willing to risk so much like her health and the health of her children by not going to a hospital to give birth just so she could stay on the island. The longer she stays there the more Hannah’s feeling start to change. The first time this begins to show is when her children are young “It is time that the children go to a real school, she would say. They should have friends their own age. It’s not right, she would say to raise them in isolation, with no idea of the outside world. She was going to say ‘in captivity’ “111. This shows that Hannah knew what they were doing to the children wasn’t fair and that living on such an isolated island wasn’t normal. This was probably the first step in her realising that