Some people are born much differently than others. In the making of this book, Lois Duncan created just one of these people, called Mark Kinney. Through the events of this book it is revealed that Mark is a complacent, tactful, and meticulous person.
The exact definition is showing smug or uncritical satisfaction in oneself or one's achievements, knowing this we can place this character on Mark. Mark first display of complacent is when Mark is when we find that Mark instead of trying to do the final himself he attempts to steal a completed copy of the answers from his college girlfriend. Instead of learning about the topics he decides to convince he girlfriend to use her admission to take a completed copy of the final to cheat. He is definitely smart enough to try to complete the final with a passing grade. “You two have nothing to complain about. I am the one who got zapped. Last semester” (16). In saying this he shows a satisfaction at his ability to manipulate his girlfriend to his will, and his disregard for others.
Mark may be complacent but one good argue that he has the right to in his extreme tactfulness. Mark has done many bad things in his life and never gotten in trouble, animal abuse, murder and has never been accounted for it. In the book several times we are told of the horrible things …show more content…
His Name is Mark Kinney and he is Complacent tactful and meticulous. Mark can be catercorilsy by the exact definition of complacent which is to overly smug in one's achievements. But you could argue that his complacent is well earned by his extreme tactfulness, But his most obvious characteristic is meticulous. Mark is all of these things and many more but words can often not describe people exactly so it is impossible to know just how Lois Duncan pictured and imagined his
The exact definition is showing smug or uncritical satisfaction in oneself or one's achievements, knowing this we can place this character on Mark. Mark first display of complacent is when Mark is when we find that Mark instead of trying to do the final himself he attempts to steal a completed copy of the answers from his college girlfriend. Instead of learning about the topics he decides to convince he girlfriend to use her admission to take a completed copy of the final to cheat. He is definitely smart enough to try to complete the final with a passing grade. “You two have nothing to complain about. I am the one who got zapped. Last semester” (16). In saying this he shows a satisfaction at his ability to manipulate his girlfriend to his will, and his disregard for others.
Mark may be complacent but one good argue that he has the right to in his extreme tactfulness. Mark has done many bad things in his life and never gotten in trouble, animal abuse, murder and has never been accounted for it. In the book several times we are told of the horrible things …show more content…
His Name is Mark Kinney and he is Complacent tactful and meticulous. Mark can be catercorilsy by the exact definition of complacent which is to overly smug in one's achievements. But you could argue that his complacent is well earned by his extreme tactfulness, But his most obvious characteristic is meticulous. Mark is all of these things and many more but words can often not describe people exactly so it is impossible to know just how Lois Duncan pictured and imagined his