In addition, the servant girl, who tends to David’s wounds and, “… trusted no one with our affairs… had left the house by a window, stolen a neighbour’s boat, and come to our assistance single-handed,” is the epitome of courage and humanity. (189) She is a courageous girl by risking a reprimand from her father to help a couple of men she barely knows simply because she feels sympathy towards the young, battered and torn lad. Her great act of kindness is especially moving when one considers the fact that Alan and David deceived the servant girl into helping them, as the reader feels bad for such an incredible girl and irate with Alan for being so cruel. The author utilizes the element of fiction called characterization to touch the reader in
