Dark Inside Character Analysis

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Characters teaching readers virtue

Are authors showing virtue through their characters? Alan Cohen once said, “There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither. In Dark Inside by Jeyn Roberts is about 4 teenagers trying to survive a zombie apocalypse and the story they face many challenges. In Dark Inside Roberts displays virtue in the character Twiggy. Roberts also shows virtue in the character Ms.Darcy. Lastly Roberts shows virtue in Aries. Jeyn Roberts uses the characters in her novel to teach the readers virtue. To begin with Roberts encourages virtue through Twiggy’s insincere actions. According to the text, “why Mason asked you could have killed me back on the street. Why all the acting… I

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