Elijah Of Buxton Character Analysis

My least favorite character from Elijah of Buxton is Mr. Leroy. Mr. Leroy was a hard-working man trying to earn the freedom of his family for over five years. However, once he had gotten all the necessary money he seemed to rush everything and want to get everything done as fast as he could no matter the price he paid. Mr. Leroy should’ve listened to the people around him who kept trying to tell him not to leave his money with a man whom no one really knew much about. It seemed he wasn’t thinking clearly that day when he sent his only way of getting his family back with a mysterious and peculiar person-the Preacher. Everyone knew the Preacher always carried around a pistol with him, so Mr. Leroy should’ve at least suspected he would use it on Mr. Highgate who was the only innocent one in all of it.
I think that if Mr. Leroy really did want to see his family again that bad, he should’ve gone himself and not let anyone else do it for him. It was his family after all. It was his only chance to get back his family back and he had worked so hard, so it was he, Mr. Leroy, who should’ve been the one to go down to Michigan or find someone …show more content…
It wasn’t Elijah’s fault that he told Mr. Leroy to hand over his money to the Preacher. It wasn’t right for him to just take a child without letting anyone else know on a journey to look for a possibly very dangerous man. Mr. Leroy didn’t seem like he cared very much about Elijah’s safety or well-being at all. He was careless and mindless taking an eleven-year-old child with him without even leaving a letter for his parents or anyone to let them know where Elijah was headed. It was Mr. Leroy’s mistake after all and he should’ve figured something out himself or with other adults from the Settlement such as Elijah’s father, Mr. Freeman. Overall, I didn’t like Mr. Leroy because he was reckless and careless at