Complex Characters In Augusten Burroughs's Running With Scissors

Every story has something called a complex character. These complex characters are those people in a story that change through out the book. Augusten Burroughs’ has one main complex character in his book “Running with Scissors”, himself. In Burroughs book he shows a huge amount of personal change and development. He focuses on making himself a complex character because it is his own memoir and he is writing about his own life journey. Burroughs’ memoir is also very applicable to others lives, and can help many. Augusten Burroughs memoir “Running with Scissors” is a really good example of complex characters as the reader can see his change from the beginning to the end of the book.
The complex character in “Running with Scissors” is the author …show more content…
This quote shows how, now, in his early adult life Burroughs recognizes the crazy he's been through and how it has changed him. This survival is what makes Augusten
Burroughs’ story so relatable.
This book, “Running with Scissors”, is incredibly relatable. People can read it and possibly apply it to their own struggles. People can read about how Burroughs handled these crazy situations and get a better idea of what to do or not to do. It also lets people know that they are not alone. Burroughs book gives people the comfort that someone else went through very difficult times, and made it out alive. A lot of people can find hope from this book. This book offers so many things to so many people, and everyone can pull whatever then need from it to help them survive.
Overall Augusten Burroughs “Running with Scissors” has himself as a main complex character, and the book can offer a lot of help to its readers. In the book, Burroughs is the main
Kramer 3 complex character as he goes through huge personal change. Burroughs really comes into himself as the book goes on and as he separates from unhealthy relationships. His book is