Don T Turn Around Character Analysis

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Survival. What is survival? Survival is continuing to live or exist under adverse or unusual circumstances. When it comes to survival in the book there are two characters, Peter and Noa. They have to overcome different obstacles in the story in order to survive, and stay safe. Also, in the book,”Don’t turn around”, by Michelle Gagnon is a book that talks about Peter, a character who takes action by browsing through his parents personal information, and finds out that his parents aren’t really what they claim to be. They are criminals who work for Mason. Noa who was kidnapped, finds herself in a warehouse, with an IV in her arm and no memory of how she got there. Lastly, an important thing to remember throughout the story is one needs to be careful who he/she trusts. First of all, Peter is a teenager who has always been a wealthy kid, and a computer genius. Things get out of hand when people break into his house, and take his computer with all his personal information. As a consequence to the breakin, Peter takes action, by ”Posting the same message across more than a dozen boards, accessed by thousands of members of the hacker community” (Gagnon 129). This shows that by sending a message around the world to all his fellow hackers, he is …show more content…
The whole purpose of the joining up and becoming parterens was to, investigate and find out what happened to Noe. When Noa and Peter were getting ready to sneak in the warhouse to find out what was going on, that is when trust became a factor. So for example, “Could he really trust Noe to watch his back in there? He wasn’t even sure she liked him”( Gagnon 252). This shows that peter is questioning can he trust Noe while there sneaking in the warehouse, because of how little he now’s Noa. Lastly, it’s important to have trust in order to be successful, but trust takes time to build, which can be hard for

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