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Witness Hesse: Character Analysis

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Did you know that 1 in 7 Students in Grades K-12 is either a bully or a victim of bullying because they are not courage’s and do not stand up for themselves? Courage’s means strength in the face of pain or grief. The novel is called Witness Hesse (2001). The story takes place in 1924 in Vermont. Some of the characters include Johnny Reeves age 36, Merlin van Tornhout age 18 and Sara Chickering age 42. The problem in this story is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). The main point of the story is when Johnny Reeves jumps off the bridge. No one noes if he is dead or alive, that is the biggest mystery in this story. By the end of the story the Secretary of State of Vermont rejects the application of the Ku Klux Klan to do business in the state. In Witness (Hesse 2001), uses the theme courage to develop Merlin van Tornhout into a dynamic character that grows and changes throughout the novel. …show more content…

He says this when he is the the Klans car. “I never had been so out bullied before, but I thought about that Bobby Franks, and I looked at the drifter in my automobile, and I knew what Leopold and lobe had done to that boy and I got out” (94). This shows that merlin was out bullied. Therefor he is lacking courage in the beginning of the novel. After he was out bullied he decided to leave the automobile. He did not stand up for himself because he was not courage’s enough. The guy that was in the car also had the knife which probably made him leave. Merlin will learn throughout the novel to stand up for himself more and be more

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