'The Lost Colony' By Henry Sturges

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Henry Sturges is the “sidekick” of Lincoln in this book. His quest during the novel is being a mentor for Abraham Lincoln and teach him how to fight vampires and by this he accomplishes his quest of ridding the world of vampires.
His story goes, that the young Henry came to America with the Roanoke colonists trying to start fresh with his wife. Unfortunately he is soon attacked by the evil (for the sake of distinguishing different) vampires who not only kill his wife but turn him into one of their kind. (Also the possible reason to why “The Lost Colony” is lost). This incident compels Sturges to abolish vampires from the world or at least America. However there is a problem, that a vampire cannot kill his kind, that’s why he needs Lincoln, or the other hunters before him. Henry now, because of being a vampire, possesses an ability to foresee the future and that’s why he chose Abraham Lincoln to be his student, for he knew Lincoln would succeed.
From the perspective of a character, Henry Sturges is so pumped full of background and character traits, that whilst he is compelling he may be hard to comprehend at times. I …show more content…

He starts to hate vampires, not for ruining his life, but how destructive they are, he dislikes those vampires who kill without thinking about the people they're killing or the lives they're ruining. To quote “It is one thing to feed on the blood of the old and the sick and the treacherous, but quite another to take sleeping children from their beds; quite another to march men and women to their deaths in chains, as you have seen with your own eyes”. This makes Henry a good vampire, who remembers what it's like to be human, and wants to protect humans accordingly. According to all what I stated, Henry Sturges is an interesting character with good intentions, who has to excist in order to make the story of Lincoln as a vampire hunter

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