Author Veronica Roth once wrote, “I have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening.” This connects to Margaret, a character in How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found. Margaret travels to the island where her father died to solve the mystery of his death. On the island, she encounters life-threatening challenges and is forced to overcome her fears. She is the oldest of two daughters and her mother is depressed, irresponsible, and lazy. She is forced to grow up much faster than most kids and take care of her sister, Sophie, and help her mother, Lizzie, around the house. One day, their mother takes Sophie and Margaret to an old house on the island where her father died and puts
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Because of this, Margaret is not like most kids and does not have a lot of friends. When she faces a problem, she does not have anyone she can talk to and she has to deal with it on her own. She is an outsider in school, and is afraid to faces big groups of kids alone. “That’s why the safest place to eat lunch is in a bathroom stall.” (page 77) This shows that Margaret does not like to be around the other kids, and believes that because she does not have any friends to eat with, the lunch room and other public settings with a lot of kids are places where she can be ridiculed and teased. When Margaret gets to the island, she meets Boyd and they become inseparable. In the end she has to leave him, and she is very sad because he was one of her only friends and she does not know when she will meet another friend that understands her like Boyd does. Not having a lot of friends causes
Although Boyd and Margaret were close friends, they sometimes fought because of Margaret’s uncontrollable temper. Margaret made fun of Boyd for cherishing the Ratt comics because she believed they were just a story, until she found out the truth. In the library, when Margaret was trying to sneak in and stay after Mr. Librarian left,
Because of this, Margaret is not like most kids and does not have a lot of friends. When she faces a problem, she does not have anyone she can talk to and she has to deal with it on her own. She is an outsider in school, and is afraid to faces big groups of kids alone. “That’s why the safest place to eat lunch is in a bathroom stall.” (page 77) This shows that Margaret does not like to be around the other kids, and believes that because she does not have any friends to eat with, the lunch room and other public settings with a lot of kids are places where she can be ridiculed and teased. When Margaret gets to the island, she meets Boyd and they become inseparable. In the end she has to leave him, and she is very sad because he was one of her only friends and she does not know when she will meet another friend that understands her like Boyd does. Not having a lot of friends causes
Although Boyd and Margaret were close friends, they sometimes fought because of Margaret’s uncontrollable temper. Margaret made fun of Boyd for cherishing the Ratt comics because she believed they were just a story, until she found out the truth. In the library, when Margaret was trying to sneak in and stay after Mr. Librarian left,