Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Characterization of Grubbs Grady (character)

This book is called Lord Loss by Darren Shan. It is about a boy named Grubbs Grady, he has orange hair and he is very big and buff, he is a strong but sometimes he is a coward, he is scared of demons and he is scared of Lord Loss. His parents were killed by demons so he kind of has a reason.
On page 93 it sais "Thats not human" says Grubbs
"I think it is-or was, I cant be sure, but I compared it to the it to a drawing of Abraham Garadex- one of Bart's sons- and I's swear they're one and the sam" Billy says. Garadex's are also Grady's, Garadex just got shortened. That means that the people in the Grady family are turning into werewolves, and Grubbs is scared that tham might happen to him.

Grubbs did not really care about his parents before they died, but now he says that if he could have a wish, he would only wish that he could bring his family back to life, this means that he actually cares about his family now, his parents dieing really made a difference to what he cares about.

Grubbs lives in a place called Carcery Vale (pronounced car-sherry vale), because it says on page 88, "there's an incinerator on the far side of Carcery Vale, Dervish has a key to it. He takes corpses there and burns them when nobody is around". He lives in a big L-shaped house, which has like 10 bedrooms and a 60' flat screen TV in the living room. He likes the house.

Grubbs had been told that most of the family members had been killed by demons, now he has to protect himself. Overall Grubbs is a nice person, but is scared of many things, Darren Shan has done a very good job of bringing Grubbs alive.

1 comment:

Michael said...

I like the sounds of this story, only by reading the characterization of Grubbs Grady! You've done a good job sorting out ways that DS has brought Grubbs to life in our minds. Yash, I'd like to read this post over with you and see if we could smooth out the writing a little bit. See me next week and we'll get this done.