Pax The Fox Analysis

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Pax the fox is like a hero.

Pax the fox is the seconded main character of the book Pax by Sarah Pennypacker, the first being peter, the boy who took him in.

"Pax wasn't used to being alone. He had been born into a squirming litter of four, but the father had disappeared before the kits had even learned his scent, and soon after that, his mother had failed to come home one morning. One by one... had died, leaving his the only heartbeat... until the boy, Peter, had lifted him out." The quote above tells us how Pax started out, started out to becoming a hero. The first began from his point of view, This is what Pax experience not Peter so that tells us that he is a protagonist, the evidence for this is the first line, "Pax wasn't used to

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