Character Analysis Of Phillip In Hurricane Island

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Towards the beginning of the novel the main character, Phillip can best be described as a person with a hollow personality. Then his parents decided to move him and his mother to their homeland in America, but Phillip wants to stay because the island is his home but after yelling at his mother and talking with his father the decision is made. After that point, he can be described as melancholy, this is because there is nothing he can do to stay on the island.

Later in the novel, Phillip becomes a very nervous person. The reason he becomes this way is that there is about to be a hurricane and their shelter isn't strong enough to face the storm. Since the shelter gets destroyed, the old man who is on the island with him has faced severe injury

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