The Last Will Character Traits

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There are many traits that require Will to be a very necessary member towards the team. Three of these traits are leadership, determination and fearlessness, is say this because Will demonstrates excellent leadership by guiding the team and telling them what to do and when to do it. He is highly Determined as he never gives up on a problem until he has found a solution or until he has solved it. At last Will express’s a lot of fearlessness as he does things and has ideas that the team would never ever do or think of doing due to being afraid. Will demonstrates excellent leadership as he, constantly finds himself leading the team rather than following. Will leads the team either by telling them where to go, what to do and when to do it. For example, when the team went to Investa’s Headquarters to get more information they split up and when they finished getting …show more content…
I say this because Will does what the team doesn’t and he isn’t afraid of putting is life at risk for his job, even if it involves being extreme. For instance, when the team went into The Black Sphere to gather information on Edmond Pulps death, they found themselves stuck in a situation where they had no exit from the Sphere without getting caught, until Will said thought of jumping down the waterfall and said “we’ll jump down it, into the reservoir” (Chapter 21) this was highly fearless of him as no one would have even thought of such an extreme and risky move, let alone have done. As well as when David Wickett pointed a gun at Will and threatened to shoot Will was not afraid at all he was calm and fearless and that’s exactly the trait a person in his field should contain (chapter 25). For my last example is when Will stepped in for the team and climbed the mountain to get to David Wicketts farm house alone as the rest of the team was afraid to (Chapter 8). This why I say Will portrays the trait of being

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