In Matty’s case, his darkness is internal. He carries around the burden of sins that he is not even sure he has committed, but he accepts the weight of them anyway. He spends his young adulthood traveling around in an attempt to escape his feelings and outrun the darkness. Sophy’s, on the other hand, manifests as outward fury. She only wants other people to suffer at her expense, so much so that she tries to burn down a building full of children in order to make some money. Both characters, and all others, have some type of darkness that follows them. How they develop as people depends on the type of darkness that burdens
In Matty’s case, his darkness is internal. He carries around the burden of sins that he is not even sure he has committed, but he accepts the weight of them anyway. He spends his young adulthood traveling around in an attempt to escape his feelings and outrun the darkness. Sophy’s, on the other hand, manifests as outward fury. She only wants other people to suffer at her expense, so much so that she tries to burn down a building full of children in order to make some money. Both characters, and all others, have some type of darkness that follows them. How they develop as people depends on the type of darkness that burdens