Analysis Of Jonah Skidmore's Character In 'Found'

The novel Found by Margaret Peterson Haddix has many characters throughout the entire story, however one character can be considered a best friend. His name is Jonah Skidmore and he is Chip Winston’s best friend. This point can be proven on page 17 when Jonah narrates “He and Chip weren’t really good friends yet,” (Haddix 17). Nonetheless, though when he says this Jonah is actually foreshadowing the fact that he and Chip will be friends is imminent. Later then in the story the foreshadow comes true when Jonah says ‘“You should have thought of that before you zapped Chip,” Jonah said. “You should have known that we’d stick together.”’ (Haddix 12) This quote is explaining how Jonah is telling whoever zapped Chip should have been smart enough

This type of conflict can be characterized as a man vs. self battle. In this novel alone, the conflict never really ends up being solved, but it does improve. “What if I really am supposed to have some other identity,” he wondered. “The identity of a boy who’s… missing?” (Haddix 227) This part of the novel is happening when Jonah and Chip and Katherine all go to the family adoption counseling before they are sucked back in time. In the beginning of the story, Jonah knew he was adopted and did not question his own identity at all. As the story progresses, however, he begins to wonder more and more about who he really is. As the book nears the end, the conflict seems to be slightly resolved, but makes less and less sense. This is when JB tells the kids while they are in the time cave that they are missing children from the past. At the point of this in the novel, both Chip and Jonah find out who they are, as in they are children taken from the past, but in reality only Chip finds out who he is from back in time. These events resolve pieces to the problem because both friends find out who they are, or who they are supposed to be. It is not fully solves, however because of the fact that both Jonah and Chip were trying to find out who they are during the 21st century. The thirteen year old basketball playing boys still never found out who they are supposed to be as normal kids, but they did find out who they were meant to be, as the kids from the past. A song that could describe this novel would be the song Drops of Jupiter by Taylor Swift. This song can relate to the conflict in the story because of the lyrics in the chorus of the song. “Tell me did you fall for a shooting star, One without a permanent scar, And did you miss me while you were, looking for yourself out there” (Swift). This song describes how someone is telling the story of another person