Character Analysis: The Glory Field

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Incidents in a story can provoke a character’s decisions which reveal the person they truly are. In the book, The Glory Field, by Walter Dean Myers, there are several different stories on separate people from the Lewis family. Each story of the each relative’s life has a point in their time where they have to make decisions that shows what kind of person they are. In the book, there are at least 3 relatives from the Lewis family that have faced incidents in their life that give you a hint on who they are and their personalities. Even though a character is encountered with a hard decision, they have to take a risk and go with their gut. For instance, in the first small story in the book, a young girl named Lizzy runs into a situation where

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