The Character Of Mark's Character Development Of John

Character Development:

John:

In the novel, we see John changing in many aspects. First, he gain some of his legacies. Like resistant to heat and being able to talk to other creatures. For the first time in his life, John finds a place of which he can truly call paradise. For example, on page 258, John says:

“I don’t want to leave. I have a friend, and I have a girlfriend. I am not going to leave.”

He’s found people that actually care about him and don’t care about who he really is. After Henri telling him he will never be a normal person, John starts to get worried that he won’t be with Sarah forever.

John begins training and starts to prepare to fight the Mogadorians after refusing to leave Paradise because he’s caused too much attention. Henri tells him many times but since he’s found a place where he belongs, he doesn’t want to leave.

Mark

Who would’ve expected Mark to be the guy to save John’s life in the end. On page 439, it says:

“Mark, I owe you more than I’ll ever be able to repay.”

Then Mark responds with:

“You don’t owe me a thing”

This passage is critical to the development of Mark’s Character because in the book, the first day John came to class, Mark tripped him, at the Halloween fair, he hurt him. The hatred between these two was burning hot. I kind of find it ironic that the person who wanted to kill John ended up saving his life.

This leads me to the question of Why did Mark all of a sudden change ?

I think Mark changes because he realizes that with him being mean to everyone else, he lost friends and the most important of them all was his girlfriend of the time, Sarah.

Significant Passages

“We’ve done all we could. And what’s done is done.”
(pg.418)

This quote is critical to the development ...

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...like he says on page 440,

“I’ll come back to you. I promise you if it’s the last thing I do, I’ll come back to you.”

Book vs. Movie

I felt like I liked the book better than the movie because in the movie, I felt like things were moving a bit too fast and in the book, they go into detail. The movie was also missing some scenes like Mark’s house burning down, it changed up some facts in the end. In the movie, John convinces Number six to let Sam come with them but in the book, it seems as though they both have their own agreement together. I felt like because I read the book before watching the movie, I knew what was happening like the scars coming on John’s body. One more thing. In the movie, they never mention the magazine They walk Among Us. They only mention it when Henri goes to the writer’s house. But overall, I thought the book was far better than the movie.