Main conflict Ed is a 19 year old that feels has not done anything prospective or good for himself and is searching to change; this is the main conflict of I am the Messenger. Ed expresses that he has having no achievements and no goals in life until he begins to get distracted by a game of cards that take him on new adventures leading him to ultimately overcome his dissatisfaction with life.
The reader can notice the struggle the main character is going through during the rising action in which Ed describes the dissatisfaction with life that he has, “No real career. No respect in the community. Nothing. I’d realized there were people everywhere achieving greatness while I was taking directions from balding businessmen…”(15). …show more content…
Ed is having an extremely difficult time trying to figure out the best way to go about asking Marv What he needs to do with $40,000 and out of pure coincidence a homeless man begs Ed for money while Ed is brainstorming. The author makes Ed obtain and Epiphany from this implausible event with the homeless man which occurs at the perfect time to help solve the problem happening in the story. "It's a difficult question, and only when I've turned it over several times do I find the right answer. The unthinkable happens.” “At that exact moment as my fingers feel for the money the answer comes to me…” “Of course!” “ Ask him for …show more content…
Ed is a guy who starts off being insecure and unhappy with his life, but as the story progresses he becomes more sure of himself and is more satisfied with life. We can see his changes in his own character with the following quote. "When I put down the toaster back down in It's familiar place. I catch my reflection In---it even if it is a touch Filthy. My Eyes are uncertain to the point of being injured. For just that instant I see the pitiful nature of my life. This girl I can't have. These messages I feel I can't deliver...but then I see the eyes become determine."(256). After many different events that happened in the story, Ed begins to see things differently. He becomes more courageous as one can understand from the determination he finally finds in his eyes clearly Ed, the main character has a personality change in this book. His personality changes are also known as round and they not make characteristics of a